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Get your bathroom party ready with toilet paper rolls for your visitors. Your guests will love this quick tip! Super simple bathroom hack. — When it comes to preparing for guests, this little bathroom hack is a simple way to add a “wow” factor. This trick comes from our Momma and we’ve loved it from the first time we saw it. She gets her bathroom party ready by wrapping the toilet paper rolls for […]

Toilet Paper Rolls For Guests ~ A Simple Bathroom Hack

8 Nov, 2016 in Around the House tagged Cleaning / Decorating / Holidays / Party by Kate

Grab these easy DiY instructions to create your own Magnetic Button Tic Tac Toe to put on your refrigerator. This board sits flush on the fridge and is the perfect little distraction for your kiddos. — My fridge is always covered. Between magnets, pictures, and notes there is always plenty to help distract my youngest while I make dinner. We have a new addition that I wanted to share with you today, our button tic tac toe magnet game. Now my youngest doesn’t really get tic tac toe […]

Button Tic Tac Toe – DiY Magnet Game

21 Sep, 2016 in Around the House tagged Decorating / Home / Kiddos / Learning Through Play by Susie

Printable Garage Sale Kit-Print these pages to help with your next garage sale. Signs for all of your tables plus labels with lots of different prices. Great help for making some extra cash. — This year, while I was prepping for our annual garage sale, I pulled out my piles of price sticker packs. You know, the ones that you get from the store for a couple of bucks. They’re pre-printed with prices…but they kind of suck. My pile consisted of 562,000 pages of […]

Printable Garage Sale Kit

9 Aug, 2016 in Around the House tagged garage sale / Home / Summer by Kate

Inspirational Quote Wall Art-Use this quick tip to make DIY wooden signs easier to create. — Finding wall decor for the kids’ room was more of a challenge than I thought. I knew that I wanted an inspirational quote wall art. But deciding what the sign would say was the hard part. Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means if you […]

Inspirational Quote Wall Art

5 Jul, 2016 in Around the House tagged Decorating / Kids' Room by Kate

Brother and Sister shared bedroom. Great ideas for gender neutral room. Used coral and blue colors. Simple design with corner beds. DIY tips and super affordable. — Well, I did it. I transitioned my babies from their nursery to their big kid room. It wasn’t without tears…mine. But now I look into their room and see a great place for them to play and relax and grow. For those that don’t know; I have a girl, who’s almost […]

Brother and Sister Shared Bedroom

28 Jun, 2016 in Around the House tagged Decorating / Home / Kiddos / Kids' Room by Kate

Initial Wall Collage-Multiple crafts to create an alphabet wall for a kids room. Use any color to match any theme, from girls room, to boys room, to a gender neutral or boy/girl room. — We recently transitioned the kiddos from their nursery to a big kids room. When I took down the alphabet that hung on the nursery wall, I knew I wanted to keep some of the memory of that craft in their new room. So I decided to keep two of the […]

Initial Wall Collage for a Kids’ Room

21 Jun, 2016 in Around the House tagged Decorating / Kiddos / Kids' Room by Kate

Inexpensive Nursery Wall Decor. An inexpensive, gender neutral way to create an alphabet collage plus decor for over the crib, that wont hurt the baby if it falls off the wall. Choose whichever color you want for either a baby girl, baby boy, or both a boy and a girl. — My babies are not babies anymore. Nothing says that more than saying goodbye to their nursery and turning it into a kid’s room. Before I took it down, I thought I would share my inexpensive nursery wall decor. It was simple, quick, and cheap. Inexpensive Nursery Wall Decor – Stars! I […]

Inexpensive Nursery Wall Decor

16 Jun, 2016 in Around the House tagged Decorating / Kiddos / Kids' Room by Kate

I'm using my mighty fix this Earth Day to help transition to a green home. Using sustainable products that arrive monthly. — Creating an earth friendly home can be daunting. There are so many products out there that aren’t safe for the environment or your health. It’s hard to keep up with it all. Here at Twitchetts, we’re all about upcycling for our crafts and organic eating in our kitchen. When it […]

My Mighty Fix – Creating an Earth Friendly Home

19 Apr, 2016 in Around the House tagged Home / Mighty Fix / Mighty Nest / Things We Love by Kate

Keep Fresh Cut Flowers Alive Longer. Quick tips for preserving bouquets of flowers. — Susie was going through some of our Grandma’s card boxes for inspiration and found this little gem. I knew that I had to share it with you. These are her tips for how to keep fresh cut flowers alive longer. Our Grandma was a wealth of knowledge about a lot of […]

How To Keep Fresh Cut Flowers Alive Longer

24 Mar, 2016 in Around the House tagged Decorating / Home / Spring / Summer by Kate

6 Fun Spring Crafts. Eggs for Easter and Flower craft tutorials — Do you know how I know when the spring crafts season has begun? The kids start wanting to go outside. I love watching Little Miss squat down and point out the bits of green popping up in the garden. This year she’s showing Mr Monster; because now that she’s three, […]

6 Fun Spring Crafts ~ From Easter Eggs to Flowers

17 Mar, 2016 in Around the House / Crafts for Kids / Holiday tagged Easter / Holidays / Home / Kiddos / Spring by Kate

Things we Love. Nine Must have items for around the house. Things to help you save time and energy! — Nine Things We Love for Around the House We’re all busy. We have loads on our plates and little time to do it all. We thought we would share some of the items that help us get things done quick. From planners, to kitchen tools, to blogging must haves. Check […]

Things We Love – Around The House

10 Mar, 2016 in Around the House tagged Home / Life / Things We Love by Kate

Cleaning Tips. For People Who Don't Have Time To Clean — Between blogging, starting a new business, working full time, and being a wife and momma; the last thing I want to do is clean. But I have to admit, that everyone in the house is calmer when it’s clean. Including me. So I have to find ways to get the […]

6 Cleaning Tips for people who don’t have time to clean

28 Jan, 2016 in Around the House / Tips and Tricks tagged Cleaning / Life by Kate

Easy Toddler Chore Chart. Simple craft using magnets to help get your kids to help you clean. — The chore chart. It’s such an amazing concept. We decide what chores we want our children to do. They get to move fun magnets, flip pieces of paper, make check mark, or add a sticker. To them it’s a fun activity, to you it’s one less thing off your to-do […]

Simple Toddler Chore Chart

21 Jan, 2016 in Around the House tagged Chore Chart / Cleaning / Kiddos / Learning Through Play / Life by Kate

My first Fix from Mighty Nest — My sister has been getting her Mighty Fix for awhile. I have enjoyed all of the fun Mighty Nest lunch gear I bought for J this year for school. So it was no surprise when I got my first first fix from Mighty Nest, that I Loved the product!! It couldn’t have […]

My First Fix from Mighty Nest

20 Aug, 2015 in Around the House tagged Mighty Fix / Mighty Nest by Susie

UpCycled & ReCycled Projects — Happy Earth Day!!! We are all about Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling in our homes. We have shared quite a few Upcycled or Recycled crafts in our short stint of blogging so we wanted to recap and share them with you today! All of these projects take minimal supplies. We are […]

Up-Cycled & Recycled Projects

22 Apr, 2015 in Around the House tagged Spring / UpCycled by Kate

DIY Air Fresheners-Diffuse Essential Oils using simple toilet paper tubes. Great way to upcycle tp roles. Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive. — There are a lot of ways to clean the air in your home. One of which are these simple DIY Air Fresheners. Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate […]

DIY Air Fresheners ~ From Toilet Paper Rolls

6 Apr, 2015 in Around the House tagged Decorating / Home by Kate

Label your fruits, veggies, and herbs with these cute upcycled garden labels. — I have been itching to get out into the community garden. I decided a while back I wanted to create upcycled garden labels this year. I just love the idea of of giving things a second life. Saving money also is a perk. I looked through thrift stores, antique stores, […]

UpCycled Garden Labels

1 Apr, 2015 in Around the House tagged Gardening / Plants / Spring / UpCycled by Kate

It happens about 90% of the time. I get my wine poured, I run a finger through my brush and I squeeze some paint out of the bottle. Sometimes I can go a while without hearing a peep. Sometimes I can only go 5 minutes. One time, it literally happened […]

Crafty Mommy’s Paint Saver Palette

9 Mar, 2015 in Around the House by Kate