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  • DIY Weekend chalkboard mirror. So fun! | Gypsy Magpie

    DIY Farmhouse Chalkboard from Old Mirror
    • Missy
    • Before & After Cheap or Free Create DIY Repurpose
    • 19 June 2018

    I picked up this old mirror off a yard sale site several years ago with the plan to use it one day in our half bath remodel. It’s been sitting behind the chair in my bedroom, gathering dust, since. This past month as I have gotten serious about redoing that half bath, I realized the […]

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  • 4 creative craft storage ideas | Gypsy Magpie

    4 Creative Craft Storage Ideas
    • Missy
    • Cheap or Free Create DIY Kids
    • 27 March 2018

      About this time each year, I catch the cleaning bug. I don’t know what it is about spring that makes me want to pare down and clean up? For some reason, I suddenly feel overwhelmed by the mass amounts of papers, craft supplies, and paraphernalia floating around my house. Has the spring cleaning bug […]

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  • From forgotten in a flowerbed to the cutest barnwood chalkboard! | Gypsy Magpie

    DIY Western Barn-wood Chalkboard
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    • Arts & Crafts Before & After Cheap or Free Repurpose
    • 3 November 2017

    When my brother and sister-in-law moved into their new house, they found a bunch of discarded treasures left in the backyard. The former owners must have loved western decor because there were whiskey barrel planters, barn-wood, a cowboy boot fountain, and a broken windmill, among other things. Wanting their backyard clean and knowing I have […]

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  • Farmhouse spider web doily | Gypsy Magpie

    Farmhouse Halloween Spider Web Doily
    • Missy
    • Arts & Crafts Cheap or Free Holidays
    • 11 October 2017

    I know this isn’t very popular to say, but I’m not a huge Halloween fan. Don’t get me wrong, I love cute little kids in fun costumes and y’all know I dig the excessive amounts of sugar! But, I don’t love guts and gore. Spudnuts, babies dressed as bugs, Charlotte in her spider web, apple cider, and […]

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  • DIY Lettered Wood Slice Coasters. Quick, simple, and inexpensive!

    DIY Lettered Wood Slice Coasters
    • Missy
    • Arts & Crafts Cheap or Free Create
    • 7 March 2017

    Remember last month when I shared the wood slice magnets my daughter and I made for her 4th grade Rendezvous? Well, I found 5 larger wood slice rounds that I had cut up and stashed away and challenged myself to put them to use. I have to tell you straight up, I’ve been in a […]

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  • These beUTAHful wood slice magnets are simple to make and so cute! Stop by the blog to see what we did. | Gypsy Magpie

    Be-UTAH-ful Wood Slice Magnets
    • Missy
    • Arts & Crafts Cheap or Free Kids
    • 16 February 2017

    In Utah, 4th grade social studies is dedicated to Utah History. The 4th graders at our local elementary school celebrates the ending of their Utah History study by having a big Mountain Man Rendezvous in honor of the explorers of the state. The kids look forward to and plan this party the entire year! The […]

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  • These 5 minute washi tape bookmarks are completely customizable and oh so cute! | Gypsy Magpie

    5 Minute Washi Tape Bookmark
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    • Arts & Crafts Cheap or Free
    • 31 January 2017

    Remember how I told you that last year I got addicted to planners? Well, the one I bought didn’t come with a bookmark like my original Erin Condren had. I thought it would be fine and that I wouldn’t care, but turns out those things are pretty darn handy. I tried to find a bookmark […]

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    No, these aren’t perfectly staged Insta-worthy p No, these aren’t perfectly staged Insta-worthy photos but I just really don’t care and my grandma wouldn’t either so I’m gonna share anyway.⁣ ⁣ When I was a girl, we lived with my Great Grandma Anderson. We helped take care of her that last little bit of her life. I was only a tiny kid but to this day I vividly remember. She just had this way about her that made me feel like I was loved. Seen. Wanted. Madeline was something special. And she’s been my person ever since. After she passed, I’m pretty sure she took up the all consuming job of watching over me. Poor dear. I’ve felt her near over and over again throughout the years. I’m so grateful because oh man, I needed her.⁣ ⁣ Grandma made this quilt for my parents wedding, 40 years ago. My dad loved it to rags... He misses his grandma as much as I do. So for Father’s Day, I stole the quilt and remade it. It took me hours and hours of work, a little blood, and quite a few tears. I’ll never be known for my quilting skills, that’s for sure! There isn’t a straight stitch in the whole dang thing. But isn’t that the story of life? Pieced together one crooked stitch at a time. Unpicking, reworking, messing up, learning, patching holes, building on what came before.⁣ ⁣ Working alongside great grandma these last few weeks has been an experience I’ll never forget. As my hands laid where her’s once did, I felt her love for me as strong as I did as a 4 year old girl. Her old quilt is far from perfect, but it’s perfect for Dad and that’s good enough for me. ⁣ ⁣ She left me better than she found me, then and now. That is her legacy. That is the kind of woman I want to be.
    She’s a royal pain in the fanny, but she knows h She’s a royal pain in the fanny, but she knows how to stop, drop, and pose for a good pic. ⁣ ⁣ So I guess there’s that.
    Because my family and friends should never have to Because my family and friends should never have to walk this alone. . Beautiful artwork from @caropeony
    Hey girl. ⁣ ⁣ Don’t get caught up comparing Hey girl. ⁣ ⁣ Don’t get caught up comparing your squares to some other chick’s. Because right outside that pretty frame, her husband’s giant mutt just peed a lake on her rug. 💦
    This pandemic and my daughter’s newly diagnosed This pandemic and my daughter’s newly diagnosed health condition have changed everything. Forcing me to take a step back and reimagine what the coming summer months will be. We were going to see Disneyland for the first time since my youngest babe fit in a front pack. We had camps, trips, and weddings all planned. But those plans have fallen to pieces at our feet. Though I am sad for what I have lost, I am also grateful for what I’ve gained. Time. Time to play games with my kids. To breathe deep. Time to make real food. To take walks with my man. To eat and see, feel and write. To slow down. These past months have been so stressful and hard, but they’ve been precious too. Things aren’t always happy or sad... life is a little of every emotion all rolled into one messy, wondrous experience after another.⁣ ⁣ I don’t know what the days ahead hold but I hope there is time for the good stuff. Like late night chapters of Where the Red Fern Grows and hammocks holding grass covered 10 year old toes.
    There aren’t many photos with me in them. I cons There aren’t many photos with me in them. I constantly have a camera in my hand but I’ve never been very comfortable on the other side of one. My husband snuck this pic on our camping trip last week. It’s really not all that flattering. No makeup. Boots with sweats and flannel. But, when my kids look back, I hope this is the mama they see. The one who taught them how to reconnect to what matters on dusty mountain roads, sang around the campfire, and stayed up too late reading stories by flashlight. Lover of flowers, old things, hammocks, and fairy lights. Hugger of trees. Seeker of magic among the ordinary. ⁣ ⁣ I haven’t felt beautiful since 3 kids ago. My body paid a hefty price to get them here and I’ve never been the same. But I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. Being their mama is the greatest adventure I have ever had. It’s time to start showing up in the photos and prove it.
    Today was a rough one. My baby girl was fighting s Today was a rough one. My baby girl was fighting some pretty big emotions. The steroid wasn’t playing nice. Thank goodness we get to start weaning her off soon. She’s lonely and wants me right by her side. I love her to the sun & stars, but Mama needs space and a little rest.⁣ ⁣ In an effort to keep her distracted, we tweaked a family recipe to create a lower sodium banana bread. She needs to learn these skills hands on, to know the how and why. As her meds decrease the strictness will relax, but she’ll always need to watch her salt. Salt. In everything. And it’s all so much for a 10 year old to process. She’s tired. I’m tired. But we’ll get there, one day at a time.
    It’s no secret that I love springtime. I love ev It’s no secret that I love springtime. I love every season change, they are each so unique and fascinating in their own respective ways. But there is just something about spring, the fresh budding blossoms or fuzzy baby animals, that makes me feel restored after a long mountain winter. Spring whispers to my soul that good things are to come. I hurried to snap a few photos of this beautiful spring bouquet before our resident Sneezy comes home from work and tells me to release them back to nature. Be free, my beauties! Allergies are killjoys. 🤧
    The girls named their chicks after Donna & The Dyn The girls named their chicks after Donna & The Dynamos. Yep, Mamma Mia’s own Rosie, Tanya, and of course, Donna Sheridan, in her debut cameo photo above. What an attention hog. Poor Peggy is the oddball. I know the feeling, I’m the only M in a family full of Js. Seems fitting that she’d be the blonde. She should have been called Sophie but the youngest felt very passionately that she was a Peggy, so here we are. ⁣ ⁣ These babies will be grown in the blink of an eye, just like my babies. “Slipping through my fingers all the time.” My kids may not, but I will remember these moments and treasure them always.
    Happiness is: that first little spring pea shootin Happiness is: that first little spring pea shooting up through the dirt, reaching for the light 🌱
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