Articles By:

Lynnette Walczak

If there is ONE thing I like... it's C H A N G E! The four seasons and major holidays are my favorite times of the year to recharge -- and redecorate. I mostly like to share frugal DIY ideas for seasonal home decorating and party planning (for both, indoors and outside). Because who doesn't enjoy entertaining at home?! But even if you don't host many parties, I think you'll appreciate my DIY hacks and clever ways to decorate your house for the major holidays including Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas. Because those are the times when people tend to have the most visitors and overnight houseguests.

Practical Gift Ideas For All Occasions

Looking for unique gift ideas?... I use Christmas and Birthdays as a time to introduce people to new things. I like to give gifts like practical and handy gadgets, ingenius time-savers, or just clever inventions that few people even knew existed.

Colorful Cartoon Prints As Gifts

Need a creative gift idea for someone? Check out these colorful cartoon prints. They can be personalized, and they make great (somewhat comical) keepsakes for people of all ages.

bubble-gum-baseball-pumpkin

Unique Pumpkins We Carved & Gourds We Gored For Halloween

Well, we did it again! We procrastinated (actually just too busy) and we didn't get around to carving our pumpkins until 1 hour before the trick-or-treaters started arriving! Anyway, here are photos of the pumpkins we decided to carve...

Pumpkin Carving Tips: How To Use Templates & Pumpkin Lights

Pumpkin Carving 101 Part 2: Pumpkin Carving & Pumpkin Decorating Ideas Here's a collection of the best tips for carving your next Halloween pumpkin with ease... and how to improve your odds of your carved design looking like a masterpiece!...

The Best Pumpkin Carving Tips You’ve Ever Seen… Plus Free Pumpkin Templates To Download

A collection of all the best tips for carving pumpkins at Halloween.

Photos Of Halloween Pumpkins We’ve Carved

These are photos we took while making some of our favorite pumpkin carvings. Carving pumpkins quickly became one of our annual traditions together, and we started documenting our pumpkin carving nights with photos year after year.

Very Personal New Year’s Resolutions + How To Stick To Them

Each and every year I do come up with at least one New Year's Resolution, and I consciously attempt to stick to it throughout the year. It's kind of interesting to see where my priorities have been these past few years:

Step-by-Step How To Carve Pumpkins

Here is, step-by-step, how we document the annual ritual of turning an ordinary pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern... plus our best tips for carving pumpkins!