It amazes me every year how early Christmas items start filling store shelves! I was recently walking through Hobby Lobby and these little gems caught my eye! When I have decorated ornaments in the past it has proven to be a little bit of a difficult task to use pictures in ornaments because the round...
I really loved the look of the DIY coloring book photo frame that I created with my younger daughter, so my older daughter and I created another take on the idea. We decided to wrap a frame in the page she colored, similar to some other wrapped frames I have done! I love including her...
I found some cute mini wooden flower pots at the craft store and thought it would be fun to do something with them. So, I looked around and used some scraps and tools I had laying around and created a cute little flower featuring one of my sweeties! I decided to keep it on my desk, but it...
I found some cute little boxes for next to nothing at a craft store in our town. When I saw them the first thing I thought was that I had never created a lost tooth box for my son. He has lost a couple of teeth and we nearly lost track of them before the tooth...
Teachers are so important they get a whole week to celebrate! Teachers are guiding the next generation and have taken on the challenge to crawl through the mud and goo, get buried in paperwork, work long hours at school and home to be prepared, wipe away the blood, sweat and tears (sometimes even their own), brave the...
The winners for the Spreading Smiles contest have been announced!!! Thank you to everyone who entered Inter-State Studio’s fourth annual Spreading Smiles Service-Learning Contest. This year over two hundred fifty projects from around the country competed for a chance to be awarded one of three grants of $750, $500, or $250 to use to enhance their...
Friday, April 15 is the last day to enter your favorite teacher in the Teacher of the Year contest!! So if you have been planning to do it later, this is it- the final call!! Let us know about an educator who has positively influenced your kiddos or maybe one that just understands your youngin’...
This just in from our corporate office: Today, April 1st, we’re excited to announce a new contract that we’ve just signed for the first school pictures taken on the moon. Happy April 1st to ya!!
Easter is this weekend, so last weekend my kids and I decorated the house, dyed the eggs and did a little Easter crafting. Blooming Easter Eggs was a quick one we put together with some things we already had and a couple of inexpensive items from the Easter aisle at Wal-Mart. My favorite part about...
I was thinking about St. Patrick’s Day and my mind wandered to the Pot of Gold. In thinking about this well known treasure that shows up at the end of rainbows and serves as a place for leprechauns to play and cause mischief, I started thinking about the treasures in my life. While there are many,...