For this one I just handed Kennedy and her friend a bag of green ornaments and a bag of gold ornaments and said “Go nuts!”  That’s my kind of tree decorating!.

So, you start out with some basic plastic eggs.Grab your hot glue gun and start gluing them together.

You’ll want to make a ring of about 4 eggs on the bottom and then start building up from there.I like to make sure they look a little random.It’s really quick and easy to get a nice shape and you really don’t need to shell out the $10-$15 that those foam forms can sometimes cost.. Next, you’ll need to paint it!

To get this natural look, I used some antique white craft paint.Once that was dry, I took some watered-down brown paint and used my brush to kind of flick the watery paint at the eggs.

Worked like a charm!

Make sure you put down lots of newspaper though!.It looks great in her room with the blue frame and we love knowing that we know that Kennedy and her friends will have years of fun ahead of them leaving messages for each other and writing “so and so wuz here” over and over again..

If you’re like me and seem to need a chalkboard in every room, why not test your DIY skills a little bit and build your own?My gramma and my cousin were in town to visit a couple of weeks ago.I admit that I didn’t do much cooking and didn’t really do the best job of feeding them anything other than restaurant food, but we did make this one recipe together one night and it was delicious!.

My gramma saw a similar recipe to this one somewhere and we all thought it sounded pretty fun, so we gave it a try.We all pitched in: My gramma watched baby Jack so my cousin Matt and I could run to the store and get the ingredients, and then Matt watched Jack while he slept on the couch and my gramma and I put these together and threw them in the oven.