Giveaway! Larsen Toy Lab Blocks

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If you have young children, this is one giveaway you don’t wanna miss! Enter to win a set of non-toxic Shape Match Blocks from Larsen Toy Lab – an eco-friendly, family business with a conscience! Why are these so special? In my review, I go into detail about the company’s sustainable practices, like using local Vermont [...]

Larsen Toy Lab Blocks – Sustainable & Non-Toxic!

My Merry Messy Life: Larsen Toy Lab Review and Giveaway

It’s hard to find toys that are truly non-toxic and made from sustainable materials like wood, so I love when I come across a toy company with a conscience. Larsen Toy Lab is one of those companies! They sent me these blocks to review and to offer you a giveaway for your own engraved set! [...]

Christmas Craft with Kids – Felt Star Tree Topper

Kids Felt Christmas Tree Star Topper

A quick and easy tree topper your child can make for their own Christmas tree using felt, pom-poms and puffy paint! We have literally gone hog wild this holiday season in our house with felt, pom-poms and puffy paint. Once I started one project with Gabe, the creativity and ideas just kept on coming and [...]

Christmas Felt Wreath Craft with Kids

Christmas Felt Wreath Craft with Kids

This Christmas felt wreath with pom-poms and puffy paint is super easy and fun to make, even for a toddler! We’ve had so much fun this December coming up with ways to use felt, pom-poms and puffy paint to make our own Christmas decorations. In addition to this wreath, we also made our own felt [...]

Toys for Kids – Green, Eco-Friendly and Educational

Favorite Educational Toys for Kids

Electronic, light-up, noisy toys are flashy and fun and capture me just as much as the kids – right at first. They can seem like the perfect gift to give your favorite kid, as you picture their face lighting up with excitement as they rip open the package and play with the toy – just [...]

Merry Messy Mondays – Fall Thankfulness

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It’s about time for another edition of “Merry Messy Mondays,” dontcha think? Last time I shared with you, I wrote about our move from the northeast to the southeast USA and all the challenges and joys we encountered along the way. Now we’re quite settled back in my hometown, and back living with da rents [...]

Chocolate Banana Muffins with Coconut Flour – Gluten-Free!

Coconut Flour Banana Chocolate Muffins - Gluten-Free!

Who doesn’t love the combination of fruit and chocolate? I sure can’t resist it and when I bought coconut flour from Tropical Traditions a while ago, I started looking up ways to use it in baking. Coconut flour is an excellent alternative to wheat flour because it is gluten-free and FULL of protein – 19.3 [...]

Homemade Moisturizing Baby Shampoo Recipe {free printable}

Natural Moisturizing Baby Shampoo with Dr. Bronner's

Here’s a super simple recipe for a baby shampoo that’s 100% natural, organic, safe and easy to make with a free printable! No sodium lareuth or lauryl sulfate, parabens or other preservatives or anything unprounceable. To get a shampoo like this in the store, you’d have to pay a good $10 or $15 bucks for [...]

Green Toys School Bus Toy Review

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My boys are crazy about things that make noise and move – what little boy isn’t? They love construction trucks and push them around the house, digging up blocks and toys, while making all kinds of noise. So, I was very excited to have the opportunity to try one of Green Toy‘s classic favorites – [...]

Merry Messy Mondays – Moving Story

Our Moving Story

It’s been seven weeks since we left the first home we ever owned in Pennsylvania and moved back down south, and I’m just now ready to write about it. It has taken that long to really settle in and find our groove again, and its been harder for me than I ever thought it would [...]