Hello!  Welcome to Landeelu.com!  Summer is almost here and, if you’re anything like me, you’ll be looking for ways to beat the heat and cool off once summer really gets cookin’!  Might I suggest whipping up some delicious frozen summer desserts?  They usually only take minutes to put together and then you pop them in the freezer!   No turning on the oven or slaving over the stove top.   And if you stand in front of the open freezer for a bit as you put them in or pull them out, I won’t judge you for that.  Summer is HOT!

So,  I’ve rounded up over twenty awesome frozen summer desserts for you to try today.  Click on the link below each image to take you to the full recipe– stay cool, my friends!

“Oreo cookie crust, rich hot fudge, and luscious raspberry sorbet pair perfectly to make this Frozen Chocolate Raspberry Pie truly divine!”  Frozen Chocolate Raspberry Sorbet Pie Recipe | Food, Folks and Fun

“Frozen Samoa Pie is pretty much a chocolate-caramel-coconut lover’s dream. Delicious frozen layers will keep you coming back for more.”  Frozen Samoa Pie Dessert Recipe | My Baking Addiction

“Dessert doesn’t get any easier than this Frozen Lemonade Pie! It’s a lemon lover’s dream come true!”  Frozen Lemonade Pie Recipe | Love Bakes Good Cakes

Homemade Creamsicle Jello Popsicles Recipe | Kid Friendly Things to Do

Drumstick Ice Cream Pie Recipe | The View from Great Island

No Bake Summer Berry Icebox Cake Recipe | Cakes Cottage

Raspberry Lemonade Popsicles Recipe | See Vanessa Craft

Frozen Peanut Butter Cloud Pie Recipe | six sisters’ stuff

“A healthy afternoon snack or dessert recipe for frozen Greek yogurt bites. Lemon and blueberry flavors combine to make them a super fresh and fruity gluten-free treat!”   Lemon and Blueberry Frozen Greek Yogurt Bites Recipe | Gluten Free with L.B.

Frozen Key Lime Pie ON A STICK Recipe | Baker by Nature

Delicious Frozen Summer Desserts

Frozen Strawberry Squares Dessert Recipe | She Wears Many Hats

Frozen Cookies and Cream Brownie Dessert Recipe | The Recipe Critic

Frozen Lemon Dessert Recipe | Your Homebased Mom

“These Salted Caramel Ice Cream Bars are ultimate summer luxury – the crisp and crunchy chocolate shell hides and smooth and creamy, flavourful ice cream.”  Salted Caramel Ice Cream Bars Recipe | Little Sugar Snaps

“Coconut Key Lime Pie Popsicle + Graham Cracker Crust – a cool and refreshing summer dessert that dairy-free and naturally sweetened!”  Coconut Key Lime Pie Popsicle + Graham Cracker Crust Frozen Treats Recipe | The Wooden Skillet

“A frozen hot chocolate ice-cream pie with an oreo crust, mini marshmallows, and swirls of marshmallows mixed throughout.”  Frozen Hot Chocolate Cheesecake Dessert Recipe |  Chelsea’s Messy Apron

Vegan, Sugar-Free and Healthy!  “Lovely peppermint stracciatella nice cream cools without refined sugar on a hot summer day. Only 4 ingredients!”  Peppermint Stracciatella “Nice Cream” Recipe | The Queen of Delicious

Frozen Caramel Crunch Torte Dessert Recipe | Creations by Kara

Frozen Peanut Butter Pretzel Pie Dessert Recipe | lil’ luna

Frozen Peach Cheesecake Dessert Recipe | Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch

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S’mores are officially the unofficial taste of summer.  We get the fire pits going and inevitably marshmallows get roasted and boom…. s’mores get made continuously until September!  I LOVE s’mores and sometimes I want them without having to start a fire in the backyard.  That marshmallow, chocolate graham cracker combo calls to me in the night.  Well, guess what?  There are about one gazillion amazing s’mores dessert recipes that you can make without a fire pit and all year long!  Click on the link below each image to see the full recipes and taste summer any time you want.

These are calling to my inner S’Mores addict! Frozen S’Mores Cups Recipe | Creations by Kara

S’Mores Cheesecake Dessert Recipe | Will Cook for Smiles

No Churn S’Mores Ice Cream Recipe and Tutorial | Your Homebased Mom

Deep. Fried. Smores. You heard me. Can you believe? Get the Recipe for this one for sure. | Sugar Hero!

S’MORES Ice Cream Cupcakes Dessert Recipe | A Pumpkin and a Princess

Turtle S’Mores Cake Dessert Recipe | Live Laugh Rowe

Yummy S’Mores Cupcakes Dessert Recipe | Made to be a Momma

These seriously taste just like S’mores and they are the cutest little sandwich cookie ever! S’Mores Cookies Dessert Recipe | Landeelu

S’Mores Cookie Bars Dessert Recipe | i heart naptime

S’Mores Campfire Cones Recipe and Tutorial | Frugal Coupon Living

S’mores Fudge Recipe | Dinner at the Zoo

The kids will have fun helping with these! Indoor Mini S’Mores Treats Recipe | Landeelu

 Super EASY Smores Bark Treats Recipe | Girl. Inspired.

Samoa S’Mores Recipe | The Crafted Sparrow

Graham Cracker Crumbs make excellent edible sand. CUTE and FUN Beach Party S’mores Treats Recipe & Tutorial | Landeelu

S’more Caramel Popcorn Treat Recipe | Thirty Handmade Days

S’Mores Cookie Pizza Recipe | Lolly Jane

S’mores Dessert Recipes

Easy Homemade S’mores Ice Cream Sandwiches Recipe and Tutorial | eighteen25

S’Mores Rice Krispie Treats Sandwiches Recipe | Capturing Joy with Kristen Duke

Chocolate Drizzled Smores Cookies Recipe | TidyMom

These treats are perfect for Fall – especially Halloween time! Pumpkin-Shaped S’Mores Recipe and Tutorial | Landeelu

Perfect for those leftover EASTER Peeps!  Peeps S’mores Dessert Recipes | Domestic Superhero

Tabletop S’mores DIY | The Crafting Chicks

S’Mores Summer Party Goodie Bags – make these for your next summer party or cookout. They are always a BIG hit and you will be legendary as the best hostess!  Grab the tutorial and PRINTABLES! | Landeelu

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I’ve got three words for you: Homemade. Ice. Cream.  Yeah–I know.  Is there anything better?  And in these hot summer months it sounds extra amazing.  I’m always on the hunt for dessert recipes and my husband’s weakness is ice cream so I thought we’d try our hand at making our own!  I’ve rounded up over TWENTY delicious homemade ice cream recipes that I want to try and I bet you do too!  Click on the image or the link under each image to take you to the full recipe.  And, enjoy!

Double Chocolate 4-Ingredient Dairy Free Ice Cream Recipe | Life A Little Brighter

Blackberry-Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Recipe | Floating Kitchen

Healthy Orange Creamsicle Ice Cream Recipe — refined sugar free, low carb, low fat, low calorie and high protein! | Dessert with Benefits

Isn’t this beautiful? Lavender Blackberry Homemade Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | The Charming Detroiter

No-Churn Mocha Almond Fudge Ice Cream Recipe | The First Year

Blueberry Homemade Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | Baked by Rachel

2 Ingredient Butter Pecan Ice Cream Recipe – No Machine Needed! | Bunny’s Warm Oven

No Churn Peppermint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | Cincy Shopper

Banana Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | Your Homebased Mom

Peaches and Cream Homemade Ice Cream Recipe | Baked by an Introvert

Toasted Marshmallow Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | Happy Food Dance

Creamy Lemon Low-Carb, Sugar Free, Gluten and Nut Free Ice Cream Recipe | Briana Thomas

Homemade Cosmic FUN Galaxy Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | Some of This and That

“the BEST Easy Peanut Butter Cheesecake Ice Cream you’ll ever taste!” No-Churn Peanut Butter Cheesecake Ice Cream Recipe | Crazy for Crust

Fried Ice Cream Dessert Recipes and Tutorial | Overtime Cook

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   Roasted Strawberry Crème Fraîche Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | A Family Feast

Copycat Cold Stone Creamery Cake Batter Ice Cream Recipe | CopyKat Recipes

Homemade Oreo Ice Cream Recipe | Passion for Savings

Key Lime Vegan Ice Cream Dessert Recipe – made with avocados, coconut milk, and maple syrup! | The Roasted Root

Homemade Rocky Road Ice Cream Dessert Recipe | Barefeet in the Kitchen

No Churn Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream Dessert Recipes | Almost SuperMom

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Download these fun games for your next road trip with your teens and tweens!  These road trip games will make the time go by faster and the kids engaged in fun conversation!  Happy summer traveling! 

It’s summertime and you know what that means, don’t you??  Lots of “ARE WE THERE YET?” coming from the backseats of minivans and SUVs all over the country.  It seems that nearly every family hops in the car at some point during these summer months and heads out on an adventure.  Sometimes these road trips are 3 hours and sometimes they are 33 hours.  I have to admit that today’s post is somewhat selfish in that I am heading out on one of these adventures myself (only 8 hours though) and will have a car full of teens and tweens!  My kids are old enough now that they tend to entertain themselves by listening to music, watching movies or reading books but every once in a while I start thinking that we really ought to interact more on these long trips.  I know, what a concept, huh?  I mean think about it…they are trapped in a car with their parents for hours on end and I think it is a fantastic opportunity to get to know each other better.  So I started looking around for some great interactive road trip games and began compiling some ideas.  It seemed like a lot of the ideas out there were for elementary school age kids or younger so I focused my list on ideas for older kids (I told you this was a selfish endeavor!).   So if you have some older kids that you want to connect with on your next road trip, today is your lucky day!

I made a few printables to make it easier on all of us.  First, I compiled a bunch of games I thought my (and your!) kids would like and created this cute printable for you to print out and tuck in your purse.  Pull it out on your next trip, pick a game and see how your kids react!  I bet they will totally get into them!  Some are silly.  Some need some brain power or big imaginations.  All are lots of fun!

Road Trip Games for Teens

You can download this as a JPEG HERE or a PDF HERE.

As I was researching for some fun games I came across several sites with questions for the popular game “Would You Rather…?”  This is a game that anyone can play, anywhere, at any time where one person asks another a series of questions where the choices are nearly impossible to decide on.  Such as “Would you rather cure cancer but be poor or have $100,000,000?” These questions are a great way to start conversations as people love to explain why they would choose one or the other.  The only rule is you HAVE to choose one of the choices!  I compiled a long list of questions and put them in a printable so all you need to do is print it out, cut them apart put them in a container of some kind.

I have had these little green Ball mason jars for a while and was excited for a reason to use them!  But any container will do… even a sandwich size baggie!   However if you do want to put them in a jar or other container of some kind (and make it stinkin’ cute), I created a round tag (in a few different sizes) for you to stick on the top.  This would be a great gift for someone too!  All the questions are teen/tween friendly but feel free to edit as you cut them apart if you want.

Download the Would You Rather Questions HERE and the circle topper JPEG HERE or PDF HERE.

So that’s it!  If you have a long car ride ahead of you and your family hopefully some of these games will make that time as memorable as the actual destination!  Let me know if you have any other fun car games you have played with your teens/tweens!

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Are you hosting a family reunion this summer?  Or are you in charge of an event where you need to entertain a bunch of silly kids?  Is a backyard party in your future? Today I am sharing a “Cousin Carnival” my sister-in-law and I put on for all of our neices and nephews that only required some time and some creativity with things we would find around the house!  It was hours of entertainment and the kids loved it!  If you’re looking for summer activity ideas I’ve got you covered!

Decorations were party bunting (found at local party store) and balloons!  Shelly also made signs labeling all the booths by applying vinyl to poster board.  Prizes were inexpensive things from the dollar store/party store and candy.

Made by putting the tied end of an inflated balloon through peg board and taping it on the back to keep it in place.  The kids then threw darts in an attempt to pop two balloons to get their prize.

Label each rung of a step ladder with points and let the kids try to get as many points as possible by throwing bean bags between the rungs.  Easiest set up ever and the kids loved it!

Fill up a kiddie pool or plastic bin and some water balloons and let the kids go for it.  This is not as easy as it looks but lots of fun!  It was nice to have a water event for the kids to cool down in too.

By taping a floatie to a garbage can we instantly created a carnival booth (it’s amazing what you can come up with by raiding the garage)!  Stand back and see how many balls you can get through that little hole.

The final event was our Carnival Dinner.  We put out some carnival-y food (corn dogs, french fries, watermelon, chips, etc) and sat down and ate together out on the back porch.

It was such a great day and the kids absolutely loved it!  This is now something they look forward to every summer.  Memories were made, relationships grew stronger and fun was had by all (even the adults!).

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Today I’m sharing another idea for showing your appreciation to your child’s teacher at the end of the year (you can see my other idea for a Target gift card HERE)!

I am a big fan of giving gift cards since they are small (easy for the teacher to get home) and useful (teachers LOVE gift cards!).  But my creative side cringes at the blah-ness of a regular ole’ gift card.  I’m sure many of you can relate here.

So here’s a cute little way to give a gift card using a small tin bucket I found in the dollar section at Target!

Everyone loves checking off things from their bucket list, right?  Side note: if your child has already gone skydiving I guess you need to find a red marker and check that one off as well.  
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Here’s all you need to make this Teacher Gift Idea:

• small bucket
• Bucket List tag printed out and trimmed (K-6th grades available), download HERE.
• black cardstock for matting the tag (optional)
• corner rounder (optional)
• hole punch
• ribbons, twine, etc. for embellishment
• filler for bucket (crinkle paper shreds, candy, etc)

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I’m one of those people that puts salt & pepper on anything in sight.  Have you ever put pepper on your fries?  It’s amaaaayzing.  Really.  You gotta try it.  Anyway, I’ve been wanting to make a set of salt & pepper shakers for a while and I wanted them to be big enough that I wouldn’t have to refill them every week!  Some of those sets are so teeny tiny that they hold, like, three shakes and then they’re empty!  Yeah, no.   So when I spotted these adorable little 6oz. mason jars I knew how I’d make some that would hold enough salt and pepper to douse all the potatoes in Idaho.  Done & done!

Want to make some?  Here’s what you’ll need:

• 2 6oz mason jars and lids
• “S” and “P” letter stickers or vinyl letters
• 2″ circles of scrapbook paper (I used a 2″ punch)
• Mod Podge
• paint (I used chalk paint because I had some around but regular acrylic craft paint would work too!)
• foam paint brush
• hammer & nail
• rough sand paper
• painter’s tape or masking tape

STEP ONE:  Tape off top of jar and apply letter stickers.  Paint over entire jars with paint.  I applied two coats of paint, allowing them to dry completely between coats.

STEP TWO:  Remove letter stickers and painter’s tape and distress jars (if desired) with rough sandpaper.  If you’re worried about the paint chipping off more later, you can spray jars with a protective clear coat to seal them.  Be careful not to get any spray on the inside of the jars where your salt & pepper will be.

STEP THREE: Mod Podge the 2″ circle of scrapbook paper onto top of lid and allow to dry completely.

STEP FOUR: Using a hammer and nail, punch holes in top of lid.

STEP FIVE: Fill jars with salt and pepper, put the lids back on and you’re done!

I think these would be so cute in any color you would like!  I decided to keep them neutral so I could embellish them a little with twine and orange berries at Thanksgiving or red baker’s twine wrapped around the lid for Valentine’s Day or whatever I can dream up!

This was a super easy project that took about an hour start to finish.  I love a good mason jar craft and I love how my new salt & pepper shakers turned out!  Now I need to make some fries.

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I recently did a little makeover on my master bedroom (what a difference!) and one of the things I wanted to do was make the wall behind my bed an accent wall of some sort.  Nothing crazy, but I did want it to stand out a bit there behind my headboard.

DIY Accent Wall Idea

I contemplated all kinds of options…. shiplap, wallpaper, a different color, etc.  Shiplap seemed like a lot of work (#lazy) and how long will that trend last?  Wallpaper also seemed like a lot of work, messy and a pain to change out later.  Painting that wall a different color would have been easy enough but I am not totally digging that trend as much as I used to.

Then I remembered my friend Mandi doing something with a gold sharpie paint pen so I looked on her blog and it was exactly what I wanted!  Her DIY Gold Sharpie Wall is truly genius and I couldn’t wait to try it for my new master bedroom.

I didn’t even want to try to “make it my own” by messing with the measurements or anything because I loved it so much just the way she did it.  She has a nice graphic showing the spacing on her blog and some tips if you want to go check it out.

Basic Instructions for this Gold Sharpie Accent Wall Idea

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1. Gather up a gold Sharpie Paint Pen (water-based so you can paint over it later without any issues) and a level.
2. Using your level, pencil on your horizontal lines 18″ apart.
3. Go back and go over lines (still using a straight edge, of course) with the gold sharpie paint pen.
4. Starting at top line (for me this was the edge where my wall met the ceiling), make a small pencil mark 6″ from wall.
5. Then on the second line down, make a small pencil mark 12″ from the wall.
6. Third line down, make a mark 6″ from wall.
7. Continue going back and forth between 6″ and 12″ until you’ve reached the bottom.
8.  Next, go along each line horizontally and mark 12″ from the previous mark.  This creates the diamond shape.
9. Now simply go back and use a straight edge to connect the marks using your sharpie paint pen!

Here’s a quick video showing the whole process… it really only took me about 2 hours once I was at the sharpie-ing stage!

It’s the perfect touch I was looking for to my master bedroom makeover!  Thank goodness for genius people with genius ideas.  You really need to try this accent wall idea out, you will love it!  Modern, stylish, subtle and perfect.

You can see all of the details about the rest of our master bedroom makeover here.

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Click on the link below each image to take you to the full tutorial.  Enjoy!

Take a look and see if any of these inspire you to get your creativity going for gift-giving this year!

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Lucky Star DIY Soaps | Soap Queen

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DIY Word Bobbi Pins | minted STRAWBERRY

No-Sew Denim Mini Bag | I Love To Create

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Ribbon-Embellished Notebooks | BHG

DIY Pink Candles and Glitter Candle Holders | Bird’s Party

DIY Water Balloon Luminaries | candletech

Vinyl Record Trinket Bowls | The Surznick Common Room

Make a Bowl or Tray out of Buttons | sheknows

Painted Bottle Vases | PB Teen

Homemade Decorative Straw Frame | The Classy Chapter

 DIY Jewelry Organizer | Landeelu

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 Lots of great gift ideas – DIY Teen Girl Accessories Tutorials | Landeelu

If  you end up running out of time to make something yourself and are looking for some fun gifts for under $10 , here are some cute ideas!
CookBook for Teens {affiliate}

Teen to Teen 365 Daily Devotions by Teen Girls for Teen Girls {affiliate}

  Teen Version Pocket Ungame {affiliate}

And of course, everyone loves the Magic 8 Ball {affiliate}

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THE COVER

THE INSIDE PAGES

2. Letter From the Editor:  Written by Yours Truly.  Not a big deal but a little blurb, usually related to the cover story.  My musings on whatever I want really… basically self-indulgent nonsense.  The rest of the family tolerates it.  

6.  More random pages of family events as needed…. maybe you recognize the Cousin Carnival?  

EXTRA IDEAS

• Our second issue was dedicated to my FIL’s mother who was turning 90 that year.  Everyone wrote up a memory about Grandma Dot for the magazine.  She loved it, of course!
• One year we had everyone write up any childhood memory.  These are a great read and our kids love them.
• The first year I did a Crossword Puzzle Quiz in the back, drawing the answers from the magazine content but no one wanted to write in their magazines so I haven’t done it since.  

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