Homemaking
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Easy Marshmallow Snowman for hot chocolate
I really enjoy making crafts, mostly during the holidays and even more for Christmas. With a 2 year old around me, I’m always searching for easy and fast crafts, because if you have one of those tiny persons in your life you totally agree with me that their attention span is really short. I remember that I made this easy Marshmallow Snowman for the first time almost 5 years ago for Sebastian’s school Christmas party. I needed something easy back then because I had to make around 30. This idea at pinterest really inspired me, it looked so easy, that I decided to make my own version. It was a huge…
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Low Carb Pumpkin mousse Pie
What’s thanks giving dinner without Pumpkin Pie? We started the KetoDiet about two weeks ago, and thank God we got to host thanksgiving at our house, that way we prepared low carb friendly food for everyone. The hardest thing with gluten free/ sugar free/ keto pastry recipes for me is to find something really tasty. I really hate the flavor of stevia, I can’t handle it. On my search for a Low carb Pumpkin Pie recipe online, I found one at Simply so healthy blog, that really caught my attention because they didn’t used stevia, but a granulated stevia/ erythritol blend. Plus the mousse had a crust just like pumpkin…
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Pineapple sorbet
I can’t find words to describe how spectacular it’s the taste of this sorbet, the cinnamon topping adds a unique flavor! I know! we are just in January and it’s cold, very cold, but over here we love ice cream, especially if it´s homemade. I made the recipe using an ice cream machine but you can do it without a machine. One of the most frequent problems when making sorbets, it’s that as soon as you freeze it, it becomes really hard like a solid brick of ice and loses the soft and smooth texture. I found a blog post “sorbet 101¨ at Zoe Bakes, in which she explains that the…
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Free Easter egg hunt Printables
Easter is in less than two weeks, and I already begin to have a few things ready for egg hunting. I designed this bunnies to decorate the backyard and to give Mia signs of where she should look for the eggs. At the beginning I thought I wanted them to be raised from the grass with wooden stakes, but it was not really necessary they look really cute standing directly on the grass. To make them, just download my free Easter egg hunt printable, print it on heavy card stock and cut around. You can tape bamboo skewers on the back, or you can glue them to presentation board and…
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Kitten 1st birthday Party
Mia loves our cats and any other cat, she acts like a cat lol, she loves milk, cardboard boxes, treats, even cat toys! She also love pit balls. So her party was all about all her favorite things: cats and colorful pit balls. We didn’t have lots of guests for her party so we had a small cake (the bottom of the cake was fake) but I really wanted a two layer cake, in fact thank God I made that fake layer because about 2 hours before the party the backdrop smashed the cake and broke my cake stand, the fake layer survived just some minor scratches, and yes…
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Nursery wall art printables
I Design these wall arts especially for my Mia’s nursery, but I’m sure this printables will be useful to someone else, so I´m sharing them here! The design is 5 “x7” but can also be print smaller for 4 “x6” frames. I recommend to print them using Epson Matte presentation paper, or some special photo paper. In the blog post of Mia’s nursery you can also find the link for the wall art “Dream big little one” Save Save Save Save Save Save Save
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DIY Furry wooden letters
I was looking forward to paint Mia’s nursery but honestly I ran out of time and energy. So I designed a quick, easy and super cheap alternative.I printed 2 different sizes of star shapes, cut them, trace them with pencil in presentation board, and then I cut them with an exacto knife. I used only one presentation board ($1) I bought the wooden letters at target for about $3 or $4 each one. And bought 3 different textures at Michael’s for about, sherpa was $7.00 but I used the 40% off coupon, the yarn was $3.49 and the sheet of felt $0.50 ( I don’t know why I didn’t think…
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Furry, calming and cozy nursery
To decorate Mia’s room, I spent endless number of hours at Pinterest, trying to discover a theme for the room that I would loved, it was difficult because I wanted something cute but not super feminine (all pink with flowers, etc). After thousand hours :p in Pinterest, I made a collage with ideas and things that I liked. I want the nursery to be a cozy and calming space using neutral colors with a touch of pastels like pink and green mint. I also wanted to integrate “furry” animals like bears, sheep, cats, llamas and rabbits. 1. Sheepskin rug 2. Dream catcher mobile 3. Huge teddy bear 4.We…
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DIY animal mobile with template
To make the felt animals you will need: White and pastel pink felt sheets Fiberfill White, black and soft pink thread 4mm black round glass bead (one for bear’s nose) 2.2mm, matte black glass seed beads (six for eyes) 6mm bell Pink with white polka dots ribbon Powder blush Download and print the free animal template. Cut and trace the templates on the white or pink felt. Cut all the pieces with sharp scissors, draw with pencil eyes and details that you will need to sew using black, and sew black stitches on top. Using a q tip make the blush on the faces. Sew invisible stitches with white thread…
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Up up and away: Long distance baby shower
Having a baby away from all your family and friends, can be a big challenge, there are so many things to share and celebrate during this time… Lots of friends and family wanted to celebrate our baby girl but we couldn’t travel to our hometown during my pregnancy, nevertheless we received constant messages, gifts and really nice details from all of them. So I wanted to find a way to thank them and share a special day receiving tips, games and all the fun stuff you usually have at a baby shower. So I organized a virtual celebration, the main piece was the invitation/ thank you box, which we sent…
