Category: THE CRAFT CLOSET
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So I think I am going to start a Featured Link of the Month. I just have to gush about my absolutely favorite site right now, The Crafty Crow. Fun crafts and fabulous book reviews, and I can’t forget the enormous long list of links to other wonderful and amazing websites. I was on the…
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Thanksgiving is over and I feel like a stuffed turkey. I fasted all day so I could enjoy a few extra calories at dinner time and not feel too guilty. My guilty pleasure was my Grandmother’s blue cheese ball. I nearly devoured half of it single-handedly. This Thanksgiving was my first. In the past we…
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The kids were playing with the salad spinner while I was making dinner. Adelin asked what it was so we washed some lettuce and put it in the spinner. Then I remembered a project in Gadgetology. Place a sheet of paper in the spinner, add food coloring and spin. I do not think ours turned…
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It was the beginning of October and I felt I was going to make Halloween without a rush this year. Then all of a sudden it was two days before Halloween and I was in a crunch. If feels like when I fall behind on tasks I am perpetually trying to catch up. Here I…
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This Thanksgiving we started a Advent Gratitude Turkey. Every night after dinner we each take a paper feather and draw or write something we are grateful for. The kids enjoy looking at the pictures and talking about what they mean. I heard someone say once that we need to fill our homes with happy and…
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Adelin is passionate about princesses right now. I am thrilled to see her actually playing and interested in something other than Caillou. She saw a Princess playhouse in a toy magazine and wanted me to take her to the store right away. I smiled, then tried to distract her with something else. While we were…
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I love Halloween. It is absolutely my favorite holiday. Ok, I say the same thing about Christmas when I see the lights and hear the timeless carols. Oh, can’t forget the smell of pine trees. Back to Halloween. Last year, little goblins were out in our neighborhood on a mission to spread a little Halloween…
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Last year, I was looking through a Halloween magazine when a picture of a banister with a garland of three fairly large paper bats caught my eye. I did not save the picture and cannot recollect in which magazine it was that I saw the idea. All I have to go on is my vague…
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When Stephen and I need a break after a long week, we load the kids in the car and get out of town. Usually, it is to his mom’s house in a more rural area. While we were in the country visiting Stephen’s parents, the kids and I took a walk in search of fun…