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Let’s Craft: Make Your Own Paper Snowflakes

Let’s Craftis a special feature full of great crafts, inspiration and DIY projects that are perfect for any Modern Mom! This project comes from, Jessica Begum, the crafty momma behind the blog Hipster’s Tea Party. Check out her tutorial for how to make your own paper snowflakes: “It’s official! Winter is here! I’m celebrating winter by making paper snowflakes. Want to join me?

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Say Bye Bye to Buying New Toys!

I know we all want to give our children the best, but sometimes buying the newest toy is not the best decision financially. Not only that, but so many of us use our hard-earned money to buy our kid a toy, only for him or her to tire of playing with it a day later. I heard this statistic somewhere: by the time a child reaches kindergarten he or she will be given 10 times his weight in toys. Shocking! Of course, we all want to shower our child with love and toys. Buying new toys seems like the first logical step, but I hope you reconsider after you’ve read some of my suggestions on how to save money on toys and reduce toy clutter (because you won’t feel bad throwing away toys you didn’t spend a lot of money on!). If you have any more suggestions, I’d love to hear from you, so please post a comment below.

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Why Buy It When You Can Make It?

In my on going quest to become even more frugal, yes I can be more frugal, I have been doing research on items that you can make yourself rather than buying them. Here is a list of items that you might want to give a try.Baby Wipes1 roll – plain white paper towels (Scott works best)1 cup water4 T baby shampoo5 T baby oilCut the roll of paper towels in half (I will let you figure out how to do that! I am thinking electric knife, saw, your husband :)Pull the card board out.