St. Patrick’s Day

If you are looking to do something fun in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day with your children, here is an easy, inexpensive experiment. Here is what you need: fresh, white carnations a vase scissors green food colouring Because carnations can last around two weeks, they are the ideal flower to…

We had fun putting this together with a moss wreath we already had. All you need are pipe cleaners, gold foil (ours came from chocolate coins) and a little figurine you can paint green. Papa Smurf never looked so good! Poke, glue gun and voila!

This time of year always feels a little tedious to me. Because of the budget of the holidays, it’s never a great time to go shopping for anything, even though it would be nice to. And because it is SO cold out, the idea of spending money on spring clothes is like a sick joke. Spring is coming, right? Maybe if we say it enough times, it will come faster!