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This year’s farmhouse Easter home decor has a few hints of spring color and some fun animal themed pieces!
This easy slow cooker salisbury steak recipe is easy to prepare and makes a thick gravy. Serve it over rice or mashed potatoes for an easy week-night dinner!
Pantone Party 2026 featured a fun color palette instead of the boring Cloud Dancer white! Check out these cute girls shirts made with fabrics from Knitfabric.com!
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Recipes
This easy slow cooker salisbury steak recipe is easy to prepare and makes a thick gravy. Serve it over rice or mashed potatoes for an easy week-night dinner!
Toss everything in the slow cooker for this easy Christmas meatballs appetizer made with cranberry and chili sauces.
These easy pumpkin cookies can be made with or without chocolate chips for a soft, moist cake-like cookie that is a perfect fall treat!
Make this easy and delicious baked omelet roll for breakfast or brunch! There are so many ways to customize this recipe with your favorite omelet ingredients!
These cream cheese marble brownies take a box mix to the next level with a swirled cream cheese layer on top!
Try this easy and delicious burger sauce made with a few simple ingredients! It is also great on sandwiches and salads!
Try this simple chicken cordon bleu casserole for an easier twist on the traditional dish - perfect for busy weeknight suppers!
This easy and delicious chicken taco salad has so many different flavors that combine perfectly!
This mild salsa recipe uses simple ingredients and is great to can during the summer to keep on hand all year!
Use up old bread with this easy bread pudding recipe! It is an old-fashioned, custard style casserole.
This savory, zucchini pie has a crescent roll crust and is mildly flavored with butter, herbs, and cheese.
Make these simple, yet delicious double chocolate muffins with this easy to follow recipe.
Zucchini chocolate cake is a delicious way to trick kids into eating vegetables! It also makes a really moist cake!
This french toast muffin recipe is quick and easy! The cinnamon sugar topping is so good!
Quick and easy recipe for crock pot ranch pork roast and potatoes- perfect for a busy weeknight meal!
These mint chocolate cookies can be made in tree shapes and dipped in white chocolate to look like snow covered trees! They are a beautiful and delicious Christmas treat!
Fall Inspiration
Fall home decor in a variety of color schemes… each area was based around different sweater pumpkins the kids and I have made.
These easy pumpkin cookies can be made with or without chocolate chips for a soft, moist cake-like cookie that is a perfect fall treat!
These fall or Halloween wood crafts are perfect for tiered trays and boo baskets! They use scrap wood and paint to create a small accent piece.
This 10th birthday party had a fall fox theme complete with fox ear headbands and fairy light jars. We created DIY decor with painted ombre book page leaves. Food included campfire pizzas and woodland themed snacks.
These rag sunflowers are a simple, upcycled fall decor project! Simply use scrap fabric and old canning supplies to create a rustic autumn craft.
Free printable fall planner stickers with a black and white gingham theme. Fits the classic Happy Planner.
Free printable planner stickers with sunflowers and deep purple accents. Just print them on adhesive paper and cut out to use in your classic Happy Planner. This one is perfect for late summer or early fall!
Project Run and Play has a new shop! I sewed up an All Spice Dress from a thrifted women’s skirt. It has long sleeves and is perfect for fall!
I didn’t make any new costumes, but I did make the a pinata filled with vegetables to prank the kids!
Use paint chip samples, popsicle sticks, scissors, and glue to make this simple busy bag activity for preschoolers. They can cut and design their own jack o lanterns!
Make fall scented playdough for a fun sensory activity for kids! Recipes include pumpkin spice, ginger, and coffee scents from simple kitchen ingredients.
This sweet chili sauce recipe is easy to make and delicious. It is the perfect comfort food for cold, winter nights. Making a big batch in the summer while the garden is plentiful leads to quick, satisfying meals later!
Fall crafts and decorating with kids is not always the great fun you imagine it will be. Keeping it real with some tales of crafting disasters involving smoke, glitter, and fighting…
Make an adorable family costume on a budget- DIY Ninja Turtles (with or without tutus) and a piece of pizza for the baby! These are made from felt and tulle.
Sewing
Sew a quick and easy popsicle holder to keep kids hands warm and dry. This new free pattern from Project Run and Play is a perfect scrapbuster too!
Pantone Party 2026 featured a fun color palette instead of the boring Cloud Dancer white! Check out these cute girls shirts made with fabrics from Knitfabric.com!
This girls flannel dress was sewn with the new Art Gallery Fabrics Highlands Flannel using the Lavender dress with the buttons swapped to the front.
Sewing kids clothes with the new Project Wild Side fabric collection is so much fun! The possibilities are endless and these mix and match designs coordinate perfectly!
The Midsummer Dream pattern from the Project Run and Play shop is sewn in linen blend with lace trim and pairs well with a Seashell Satchel in floral canvas and eyelet lace ruffles.
The new Sofiona Designs Spillgate Top & Dress sewing pattern is perfect for making an upcycled white sheet dip dye dress!
Project Run and Play is kicking off the Pattern Remix Challenge with the Prose & Poetry Cargo Joggers. I sewed a denim jumper based on the skirt option for this pattern hack.
The May Lily of the Valley hand embroidery designs are perfect for adding to May birthday gifts like the Love Letters bookmark and River Pouch!
The April Daisies designs are here! These birth month flower hand embroidery designs can be used to add a special touch to any project, like a Sofiona Designs Haze dress.
This stunning Lagoon Dress was made with products from Cali Fabrics for Project Run and Play Formal Fun 2025 and worn for The Wizard of Oz school musical!
Sofiona Designs’ new Miss Nickel Pants sewing pattern has so many great features and gives you all of the tools you need to create a perfectly fitting pair of wide leg cargo pants!
Art Gallery Fabrics just released the new Potager fabric collection and I sewed a reversible quilted coat with chicken flannel, a chicken applique shirt, chambray skirt, and a gorgeous Lavender dress with Lagoon sleeves for my niece with Project Run and Play patterns!
Art Gallery Fabrics Cottage Grove has adorable farm themed prints that are perfect for kids’ clothes like a Novella Pinafore and Lavender dress!
The birth month flower for March is the daffodil. These hand embroidery designs are perfect for adding details to birthday gifts or Easter projects like fillable fabric eggs!
Violets are the birth month flower for February and these hand embroidery designs are perfect for adding to you sewing projects and gifts!
Sofiona Designs will be releasing a birth month flower hand embroidery set each month, beginning with these pretty January Snowdrops!
The new Christmas Surprise Stocking PDF sewing pattern from Project Run and Play has so many great options! Choose from a plain, ruffled, or scalloped cuff, heel and toe appliques, and a knot or full bow in place of a cuff!
This beautiful girls' set was made with Art Gallery Fabrics new Tumbleweed line by Sharon Holland. It features a modified Indigo Top and Evergreen Skirt with lots of stripe details.
Sofiona Designs just released the new River Pencil Pouch and you will want to make lots of these! There are so many uses and it is a great handmade gift idea!
More Back to School sewing with Project Run and Play! Prose Cargo Joggers, Multi-Hue Henley, and Blank Canvas Cardigan were all sewn with Cali Fabrics!
It’s back to school sewing time with Project Run and Play! The new Alex sweatshirt and Diamondback leggings patterns made a cute, sporty girls set!
A half yard of the Project Run and Play Summer Olympics striped panel fabric yields so many fun accents for sporty styles! These boys and girl soccer sets were sewn for their Sewing Olympics event.
This patriotic girls summer outfit is perfect for the Project Run and Play Sewing Olympics!
I finally finished these mermaid dolls to match the Project Under the Sea mermaid outfits I sewed last year!
Tutorials
These fall or Halloween wood crafts are perfect for tiered trays and boo baskets! They use scrap wood and paint to create a small accent piece.
Make these simple wood bead bunnies for an Easter party favor or small décor piece with this step by step photo and video tutorial.
Make these quick and easy DIY wood bead cherries for a summer farmhouse décor that is perfect for tiered trays or simple hanging accents.
These Halloween 2x4 blocks are pretty easy for a class party craft! Make jack-o-lanterns, ghosts, and Frankenstein!
Make this simple lace hair bow to coordinate with any outfit! Get the full video tutorial and instructions!
These simple Easter paintings are perfect for kids crafts or class parties. Get the full instructions and free templates!
Make these simple Easter jars using old candle or pickle jars and some simple items from Dollar Tree!
Make this easy triangle crochet fringe shawl with just two basic stitches! It is a perfect beginner project and paired perfectly with this Art Gallery Fabrics Hypernature girls outfit.
These rag sunflowers are a simple, upcycled fall decor project! Simply use scrap fabric and old canning supplies to create a rustic autumn craft.
Learn how to make Target wood eggs more farmhouse style with baking soda paint! Simple pastel colors complete this Easter decor set.
The Sofiona Designs Balsam Bag benefits A21 and is already a versatile purse sewing pattern. I took it a step further with this tutorial for a pattern hack to sew it as a drawstring mini backpack.
Sew a sleeveless Sofiona Designs Lynx dress with this easy pattern hack tutorial. I also made it out of a women’s skirt for an easy upcycle sewing project!
Make your own DIY stickers for laptops, hydroflasks, etc. and get free digital files to use!
You can paint regular, plastic Easter eggs with plain, acrylic craft paint! Get all of the tips and tricks in this simple tutorial to use them in farmhouse home decor.
Use simple materials to make an easy valentine heart canvas painting with kids! This full tutorial also includes tips for painting with young children.
Free 18” doll dress pattern and tutorial for a vintage, retro style halter dress with a sweetheart neckline and a full circle skirt.
Make a drawstring bag out of cozy knit fabric with openings in the sides for stuffed animal arms. It makes a perfect sleepover bag!
Free pattern and tutorial with step by step pictures for sewing a high low doll skirt with a ruffled hem to fit 18” dolls like American girl.
Step by step tutorial for creating a market basket liner. It fits any size and has cute ties that go around the handles!
Follow this simple tutorial for making farmhouse style pillows from drop cloth, paint, and stencils from Stencil Revolution!
Easy DIY hair clips made from puffy hearts from the Target Dollar Spot valentine section. They have glitter and flip sequin hearts!
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Sew a quick and easy popsicle holder to keep kids hands warm and dry. This new free pattern from Project Run and Play is a perfect scrapbuster too!