It’s time for the Easter Walmart DIY Challenge! Now this year they were pretty specific and gave us a couple of crafts from the Kids Crafts website that we could choose from. I decided to do the Mini Wooden Easter Basket. Of course you know me-I can’t just do a craft the way it’s written,… Keep Reading
DIY Glitter Nailpolish
I decided to try making my own glitter nail polish in gold and green for St. Patrick’s Day! This is a very easy and inexpensive project. Although I made these polishes for St. Patricks Day you could any color or combination. I’m thinking red and blue for the 4th of July. Also making them in… Keep Reading
Around the Web: DIY Storage Capsule
JERMM’S Outside created these cool capsules made from soda bottles for lightweight backpacking storage–but I can think of many other uses for them. How about using them for a pill bottle in your purse, for salad dressing in the kids lunchboxes (assuming you used food safe glue), homemade lip balms. . . you get the… Keep Reading
Around the Web: Gardener’s Hand Scrub
I know there is snow on the ground–but I’m yearning for and thinking of my spring garden already! I’m a hands in the soil type of gardener who rarely remembers to put on gloves-so for much of the summer I’ve got dirt ground into my fingers! I found a tutorial online for making a great… Keep Reading
DIY Halloween Garland
This month’s DIY Challenge from Walmart was to create a DIY Halloween decoration, so here’s a cute little Jack ‘o Lantern garland project I invented. Yeah, you heard that right, I completely invented this. And I think it kinda looks like I invented it. . .but hey, the kids think it looks awesome, so I’m… Keep Reading
DIY Halloween Monster Cookies
How about some more Wilton fun! In the lovely kit that Walmart and Wilton sent me I not only got the items to make those cool Halloween Cupcakes, but there were also some great cookie supplies and a project sheet showing how to make Halloween Cookie Monsters: Here’s the kit: My very most favorite thing? … Keep Reading
Easy Halloween Cupcake Decorating
I love decorating cakes and cupcakes! Remember my tutorial on “Easy, Elegant and Professional Cupcake Decorating” and how excited I got over using the 1M frosting tip to make those cupcakes for Princess’s Birthday? Well then you can just imagine the loud squeal I let loose when I found out that as one of the… Keep Reading
DIY Earrings & Bracelet Jewelry Set
If you’ve got a teenager or tween in your house, knowing how to make some basic jewelry is a fantastic and frugal skill to have. I am able to whip up birthday and Christmas presents not only for myself and my own kiddo–but now earrings are my “go to” super frugal gift for Princess to… Keep Reading
DIY Halloween Projects from the Archive
I can’t believe that October is almost half over! Halloween will be here before you know it. Although I’ve got some great new projects up my sleeve, I wanted to take a few minutes to remind you and redirect you to two of the fun Halloween projects we’ve done here in the past on Frugal… Keep Reading
DIY Birdseed Trick or “Tweets” for Halloween
Here’s a fun and easy DIY project you can do with the kids this October-Birdseed “Trick ‘o Tweets” by Pennington Birdseed and Walmart! The materials for this kid friendly craft are simple-Pennington birdseed, flour, corn syrup, water, string and cookie cutters. (Note: the simpler the shape of the cutter the better–tiny details tend to break… Keep Reading
