We have a lovely little backyard that I never take for granted because when you live in a city like San Francisco where the homes butt up right against each other and your front door opens pretty much directly onto the sidewalk, having a little patch of earth in the back of your home that you can enjoy is really a blessing.

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I started making my own Easter egg die back in 2014 and since then, I’ve never needed to by an egg dying kit because the process is beyond easy and I don’t have to worry about the toxicity of the ingredients.

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My home isn’t fancy. It isn’t filled with expensive decor. But it is filled with love and things that I love like this large DIY chicken wire frame that hangs in my living room.

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A few years back, I saw the 52 week money challenge floating around and I was intrigued. The idea is that you save $1,378 in 52 weeks by setting aside an increasing amount of money every week.

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My girls have a thing for cupcakes, so I thought it would be fun to make some DIY cupcake Christmas tree ornaments using caulk as frosting.

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Sugar skulls are a popular motif for Day of the Dead and decorating other items to look like sugar skulls has become quite popular as well because C-U-T-E.

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For years now, my youngest daughter has been going to see the yearly production of “The Velveteen Rabbit” put on by ODC in San Francisco.

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Every year the third-grade Spanish immersion students at my daughter’s school each get to make a plaster gauze cloth mask that they decorate and use for their Day of the Dead performance.

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Earlier this year, I received a complimentary copy of Photoshop Elements 2019 as well as a gift card to buy supplies to make and print greeting cards (I was NOT paid for this post).

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Hola, this post is part of a sponsored collaboration with SFGoodwill. They challenged me to head to one of their stores and find something to create a DIY project out of.

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Hubby has been wanting to make some concrete planters for quite some time and much to my delight he finally got around to doing it. 

Observe the completed concrete pots. 

Aren’t they lovely?

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When I was a kid, I absolutely LOVED giving out Valentine’s Day cards. I still love giving them out, which is why I made these free printable emoji Valentine’s Day cards to give to you.

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This post was sponsored by Ling Ling, all opinions expressed in my post are my own.

In honor of Chinese New Year, Ling Ling Asian Foods and Chef Katie Chin hosted an evening of cooking and crafting at Parties That Cook in San Francisco on January 22.

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Let me start off by telling you that I came up with the idea to make a DIY Mexican candy gift box because the folks at Mi Pueblo Food Center sent me gift cards to spend at any one of their stores and I will use any excuse to buy Mexican candy.* 

If you have never been to a Mi Pueblo store, imagine that a typical U.S.

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The folks at Adobe sent me a free copy of Photoshop Elements 18 and the supplies to make the DIY candy-filled glass block photo keepsake above–except for the Hershey’s Kisses, I bought those myself.

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I never need an excuse to go to Target, but this weekend I had an actual reason to go.

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Check out the cute little weekend warrior kit I put together for myself.

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This is the story of a woman who desperately wanted to stay in her pajamas all day and how this led her to make washi tape Easter eggs with her kids…

Spring break with the kids and I had nothing planned for the day and really didn’t feel like getting out of my pajamas.

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Hola Chulas y Chulos! My chancla and I have gone all investigative journalism on you guys this week. We just had to when we found out that the nation is aflush in pink poop due to the appearance of limitted edition Peeps Oreos.

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I’m sharing these tips on how to have the “money talk” with your kids and a free kids checkbook printable as part of a sponsored collaboration with Chase and #WeAllGrow Latina Network.

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