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Category: Health & Home Hacks

Such a cute and fun craft here!

Making crafts can quickly turn into a nightmare if you have too little time and too much stress.

Use our simple guide here to get these super cute Reese’s pieces Congratulations Boxes to turn out great in no time!

What You’ll Need:

-Candy Boxes

-Printing Paper

-Colored Cardstock

-Scissors

-Glue or Tape

-Ribbon

Directions:

Buy as many boxes of candy as you need.

Use our printable to get quick and easy results. (There are 5 on one page.) Print as many as you need and cut to size.

Click here if you need the printable again.

Grab some colored construction paper or cardstock, using any colors you like for your project and your kids.

Lay one box of candy on the colored paper you chose and draw a line around the entire edge. This will give you a cutting line that will match your box perfectly.

Take your cut printable words and glue or tape them to your cut colored cardstock.

Grab some nearby ribbon and tie the paper on to the back of the candy box.

Repeat for as many kids as you have and need.

That’s it! You have a Super Cute, Fun and Easy Crast with Big Impact to Celebrate their Special Day!

Thanks for coming along with me!


How to organize your life, starting with your kids.


Remember the post I did about organizing my kids suitcases for our future trips? Well, I kept going. And going. And going.

Because every mama knows, when you stay home with your kids you have to have order or you cannot function. I don’t care if you have one baby or nine different ages all through your home, order brings peace and order brings happiness.

No, order looks different in every house and every family, but we all crave the same thing. No confusion, no miscommunication, always working towards that goal.

Once I did the suitcases, I went ahead and started color coding the sleeping bags. Tim actually suggested it on our way home from our last camping trip, so I just took that as a green light to go on Amazon and find coordinating colors for each suitcase I had just finished painting.

By the time I was finished shopping, every child had a sleeping bag matching their suitcase heading on their way to my front porch.

A few days later, Tim tried to take the kids hiking and each child spent a good 15 to 20 minutes looking for their water bottle to take with them.

Those 15 to 20 minutes of shenanigans and searching and whining and complaining and tears and accusations and weeping and gnashing of teeth made me want to fix the next level problem: coordinating water bottles.

Once they left the house that morning, I got to it and me and Amazon had a good old fashion click party. Using the same colors from the suitcases and the sleeping bags, I ordered a water bottle and every color for each child.

Kymber’s pink one was actually cheaper and more quickly available on Walmart Grocery Pick Up, so I got to play with hers first.


I am not a label baby in the least, but I have to say that I love the Contigo water bottles. You can get them at Walmart super cheap, or Sam’s Club in a super value triple pack sometimes, or Amazon had some great colors as well. I went ahead and ordered the right colors for all my kids and just waited for them to come in.

I took the plain pink water bottle and just measured with a scrap piece of paper how big I wanted her name sticker to be.

I typed the text with her name on my Cricut Maker and used a scrap piece of vinyl that I had sitting there in my stash. This particular one was 6 1/2” x 2 1/2”. The font was “Hello” and I just welded it together for the best cut possible.

It is outdoor premium vinyl so they claim it will even last in the dishwasher, but I just tell the kids to hand wash each one to try to get them to last the longest.


I cannot tell you how excited I am to watch my whole vision come together: a suitcase with a sleeping bag with a water bottle for each child, all color-coded, all personalized, and all responsibility getting doled out to each person who wants to go on our next family adventure.

I don’t know how long it will last, but I have to believe that it will help. I know the kids were so excited to hear about their new things coming in, and knowing each color belongs to each child really keeps the bickering to a minimum.

Until they figure out how to blame each other for taking and hiding each other’s water bottles…????


If you need cases of masks delivered to you, this is the place to be!


If finding disposable face masks is a problem, Dollar Tree has the solution: you can order CASES of masks online and have them shipped to your home or place of business.


These are three layer disposable masks, and sold now for fifty cents each, in cases of 200. Each order is limited to 3 cases, which is 600 masks total, but you could always have a friend or someone else in your business, group or church order some as well.


Click the photos to take you directly to my link to purchase your masks today. I may make a small commission off your purchase but it will never cost you more to order through here! Share with friends and family who may need large quantities of masks, as supplies are limited.

I hope this helps some of you solve the mask shortage problem we seem to have from time to time.

I never could have imagined writing a post like this, but here we are!

Looking forward to brighter days…

Tara

Click here to go straight to ordering your masks.

Disclaimer: any of the clickthroughs you find on my pages are links to products that I have used and love and trust. I may make a small commission on anything you purchase on the other side of the link, so please know it will go to fund my crazy projects, wild ideas and writing habits. It will not cost anything extra for you. Thank you for your love and support!