Made By Smree

A new year means new goals. One of my goals for 2015? Pay off all my credit card debt!  I made pretty great progress through 2014 on paying it down, but this year is THE year it's going to be gone, gone , GONE . I saw the $5 savings plan idea floating around Pinterest (Link goes to the blog post I originally saw & pinned), and decided it might be a good way to achieve my goal a bit quicker.  Really the only rule I've set for myself as far as this plan goes is that when I find myself with a $5 bill, it HAS to be saved. No cheating. Period.  All is going well thus far (I've only saved a few, but I've only been actively doing this for a week or so now). It's almost been exciting, getting a $5 in change from somewhere and thinking "yep, this is going in my jar!" Well. I stopped at a local convenience store recently to buy a couple drinks (it's the only store around here that stocks the 20oz Sprite Zero). I was s...

 I have such great intentions, I really do. I have all these great ideas for blog posts: patterns, tutorials, just random nonsense to share, and I even go as far as to toss ideas/photos/etc into draft posts, to edit before posting.  .....Aaaaand then, as always, stuff happens. Isn't that always the way? So here's a post that has been buried in my drafts folder since....oh, June or so? :P This is another 'as seen on Pinterest' post. A super, amazing, marvelously easy pin though. I even debated posting it at all because of it, but then figured, why not!? First, here's the original pin. <a data-pin-do="embedPin" href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/225180050093668448/"></a> <!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --> <script type="text/javascript" async src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script> I was looking for a cute way to package up money for a couple gra...

Woo hoo! It's time for another As Seen on Pinterest post!  This time, it was a cute little kids' craft to go along with the story of Moses and the Children of Israel being led through the wilderness by the pillar of cloud by day, and fire by night. It fit nicely into one of our Sunday School lessons this quarter, so we decided to give it a whirl! Here's the original pin: You'll need toilet paper tubes, construction paper, tissue paper (white and orange), scissors and tape. It's a pretty straightforward craft, really. Cut the construction paper to cover the tube and tape it down. Then cut a generous square of the tissue paper (one in each color) and use some tape to stick it to the insides of the tube. That part is a bit tricky, but with some finagling, it can be done! And that's it! Isn't it cute? The kiddos loved them too. It was so great hearing them telling others what it was and what it signified. Unt...