DIY Ponybead Suncatchers

This is such an easy way to make cute, surprisingly hardy little sun catchers. We made a couple of these last year and then made a couple more in our recent Kindergarten unit, "S is for Sun."

To make them yourself, you need some transparent pony beads, which look like this: 

S is for Sun

Well, we started Kindergarten, and someone is pretty excited!

Besides phonics and Right Start Math, we learned all about the sun and studied how Jesus is the light of the world. Here are a couple fun highlights...

We practiced the letter S in shaving cream, to make the boys smell good and clean my patio table, which was a fun and non-frustrating way for him to practice writing and re-writing a tricky letter. It was the first time he's been able to consistently make his S's face forward instead of backward.

Smurfy Tan & a Revamped Swingset!

My husband and I did a little revamping earlier this summer on this ugly, rusted, icky old swing set.

Update Your Links :)

I know you're all dying to know what I've been doing lately. The very most lately, I've been transferring my website content from a webhost I had to pay for, and moving it over to blogger (which is free). You can still get here by going to www.tracystreasury.com BUT... your favorite projects and posts that you may have bookmarked or pinned on Pinterest will need an updated link. Don't hate me.

I know you guys are cream of the crop, so I hope you won't mind this little hiccup in our relationship as I get things smoothed out over here. And if you REALLY love me, please comment on and re-pin pages you may have already since their location has changed and I unfortunately lost the comments from my old site.

Click below where you can:

• Browse my Do-It-Yourself Posts & Tutorials
• Find oodles of Home School Resources
• Use my favorite Christian Resources
• Read a couple of my favorite Dr. Mom Resources. 

THANKS! You're the BEST!!!!!! :) :) :)

I'm moving my website content to BLOGGER!

It may seem a little backwards, but after building my website and having it hosted independently, I've decided to move it over here to Blogger. (I think most people do the opposite... they start with Blogger, then decide to move elsewhere.) I realize that I'll be losing comments, links & pins, but hopefully it will survive the transition anyway. If you're wondering why I'm moving my site here it's pretty simple- because Blogger is free. And although I didn't start my site as a blog, I'm hoping that maybe it will benefit from the blog format, since that's more familiar to most people to navigate through. We'll see! :)

I'm waiting to move my subscribed readers over to the new site until I've got all my content posted so there's not an explosion of old posts to your inboxes :)  See you soon!

Hanging Baskets for Art Supplies

 Here's how I finally got our art supplies cutely organized and accessible... 

Box Crate Book Shelves Tutorial

This little project came about because we had more books than shelf for a while and I wasn't finding something I liked at the store. I didn't really think bookshelves were in the realm of my DIY capabilities, but it turns out I was mistaken. This fun little boy bookshelf is a combination of my desperation + four box crates + RIT dye (of all things). I love that you can still see the grain of the wood, and they have some spunk to them for a kid's room.