Tips On How To Use Dollar Store Doilies – Valentine Edition

Valentine Doilies

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone! Anything fun planned? I am quickly getting some things done for my girls while they are at school.    Baking, decorating and wrapping some little V-Day gifts. Wanted to share some things I’ve been doing.   I apologize in advance for the quality of my photos but they will be home soon [...]

Free Printable – Holiday Gift Tags

FRE Printable Holiday Gift Tags

How was your weekend? Did you do anything fun? We saw a screening of the movie TinTin. It started at 10am in the city but we had to get there early to make sure we had a seat. Popcorn at 10am is not something I want to make a habit of!! This week is gong [...]

Free Printable – Thanksgiving Place Cards

Thanksgiving Place Cards

I’m sure everyone is getting ready for the big Turkey Day tomorrow! I know my girls are super excited. Every day they ask me “How many more days Mama??” I never saw 2 kids get so excited about food!! I have to say – I’m looking forward to drowning in a bowl of stuffing myself. [...]

Family Art Project

Family Art Project

Sometimes on the weekends we take the girls to Wave Hill for their Family Art Project. They have a different project each weekend and it’s usually somehow tied in to nature.   Since we were basically homebound all weekend due to threats of a hurricane, we needed to come up with different projects to keep [...]

Wonka Craziness!

personalized Wonka bars

The past couple of weeks have been cuh-ray-zee!! That’s why it’s been so quiet here on TCG. Sorry about that! My daughter is playing Veruca Salt in Willy Wonka at The Riverdale Y. Besides crazy rehearsal schedules, I’ve been photographing the show and coordinating a Golden Ticket event.   I’ll share photos from the actual show [...]

Bat Mitzvah Gift Tags

Bat Mitzvah Gift Tags

Yesterday I told you about the cake I made for my niece’s Bat Mitzvah.  Besides the cake, I was also asked to make gift tags.  As a gift to the kids attending, they made up t-shirts through the Humane Society of New York.  As I mentioned, she’s a TOTAL animal lover and they are a very [...]

{Etsy} Paper Cameras

Polaroid Camera Box

Last night when everyone was asleep in my home, I of course was up late working on my computer.  Every so often I need to take breaks from photo editing and start doing some mindless surfing.  I thought I would check out what’s been going on at Etsy – there’s always something fun and creative. [...]

Go Fly A Kite!

I mean that in the nicest way! My little one’s preschool teacher asked if I would come in one day to do a Spring art project with the class. Well, guess what?!? Today was the day! I had been thinking for a while now about what would be a good Spring art project that would [...]