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Challenge your creativity & build a purposeful home with the She’s Rooted Home- Handmade Home Challenge!

After a year (2020) filled with quarantines & cancelled plans, I found it difficult to go out and buy the items I wanted for my home & family. Empty shelves, closed stores, weeks for shipping, and home quarantining after getting sick really challenged my creativity. I had to get creative with what I already had on hand.

I thought I was creating a handmade home, but when I looked around almost everything was store-bought! And I’m not just talking about the supplies that where store-bought. I rely heavily on someone else/stores to supply our home with its daily necessities.

This eye opening year helped me dive a little deeper into my desire to live a more back to the basics lifestyle. How could I supply our home with its daily necessities & rely a little less on the store..

Yes, I understand I still need ingredients and/or supplies from the store, but how could I learn to move away from store-bought products and in return, learn how to make them myself? This doesn’t completely eliminate the need for stores, but helps me buy the supplies our family needs in bulk, while giving me the opportunity to make it myself. Which means I could continually make our household necessities every few months before needing to buy the ingredients again.

I started brainstorming items in my home that I could hand make and swap out of store-bought items. Knowing that I need accountability, I decided to tackle one project at a time, giving myself a month deadline for each one.

This is where the Handmade Home Challenge was birthed. If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you’ve probably discovered I love to build community! What an awesome opportunity to come alongside other women, challenge our creativity and inspire one another to build a handmade home.

This Challenge is designed to be as simple & flexible or intricate & detailed as you’d like. I carefully curated each months challenge to not only encourage you to build a more purposeful home, but to challenge your creativity. Throughout this next year, we will tackle one project a month. This will make creating a handmade home doable, while helping us stay accountable.

Use the hashtag #HandmadeHomeChallenge or #ShesRootedHomeChallenge to share your progress and gain inspiration.

A DIY holiday wreath using Wool and the Gangs feeling good yarn.

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Wool and the gang kindly reached out to me asking if the kids and I would be interested in making a holiday wreath, testing out there new feeling good yarn. Reading the email out loud to myself, Laila yelled “YES mom, say yes!”

We had so much fun making our wreath and couldn’t stop talking about how soft the yarn was. Laila and Easton both learned how to make different size pom pom’s and towards the end they didn’t need much of mommies help. Aspen even helped with the tight tension as he kept running away with the bundles of yarn.

My favorite part about creating this holiday wreath was that the kids could help with every step. We picked up a metal wreath from the dollar store and left the ties to each pom pom long enough to tie to the wreath frame.

Supplies:

• 7 bundles of Wool And The Gangs- Feeling Good Yarn
• dollar store metal wreath frame
• pom pom maker
• scissors

Instructions:

1. Create different size pom poms.
2. Tie pom poms to the back of the wreath.
3. Fill in any gaps with extra pom poms.
4. Trim loose hanging ties in the back.
5. Hang and enjoy!

As I was working with this yarn, ideas for other projects keep coming to mind. Which included a cozy cowl scarf, a throw blanket for the couch and endless amounts of beanies!

PIN IT FOR LATER!!!