sa-weet fix!

I had an ugly problem. One of my kiddos (maybe even my hubby) had knocked a hole in the drywall behind the door in pretty girl's room. You know the deal- fling open the door and bam, a perfect doorknob imprint. Great.

Yuck. Drywall repair is a pain. You can see it has been repaired previously (not well). I hate the thought of putting up those "boing" thingys at the bottom of the door, or those yucky round plastic plate things on the wall. So I came up with this-

Super cheap, super easy. It's like my middle name or something. Oh. Wait. Not like that. You can pick up tons of these wooden jewels at Michael's. Head over to the paint your own wooden stuff section (yep, that is the technical term), you can get unpainted or painted wooden shapes. Animals, airplanes, shapes, flowers, bugs, you name it, you pick it. I think I paid maybe a buck or two for this one, it was already painted. Matches pretty girl's room decor perfectly, covered up the wall boo-boo! Sa-weet fix!

magic wipes box (aka crazy easy craft for toddlers tutorial)

Do you spend every waking second on Pinterest? Um, I totally admit I'm on there every free second I can spare. Granted, with three kiddos and a home to maintain I don't have a ton of free time. I find the most fabulous things on there. Today I made yet another craft I've found. This one is crazy easy. Here's how it goes....

Start with an old, clean, empty wipes box and a pile of scrap fabric.

Cut a little start in your fabric then rip into strips as long as you'd like.

Tie the strips end to end to make one long chain of fabric. You could use a prettier knot or bow or whatever, but I have zero patience and I wanted to finish quickly.

I duct taped one end of the chain to the inside of the bottom of the box. You could glue it or secure it however you want, nobody will ever see this part anyway.

Stuff the chain into the box and feed the other end through the box opening.

Close it so it looks totally normal and hand it off to your always-into-something toddler.

She'll think she's so smart and it'll keep her entertained so Mommy can pin some more pretty things on Pinterest. :)

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