July 2009

Gift Ideas for Kids

I am always looking for simple birthday gift ideas for the girls’ friends. I love our gifts to have a handmade touch, and I like the gift to be useful and open-ended. We often do theme gifts, and the girls love gathering a few special things to tuck inside a bag or bucket for their [...]

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Cathy Heller Music = Awesome!

We’ve got some new kids music on constant play around here – Say Hello to the Sun by Cathy Heller. I’m not sure how I stumbled onto her website, but I’m SO glad I did! Cathy’s CD is full of fun, pop-style songs with positive, affirming lyrics for kiddos (and adults!). My six-year-old says the [...]

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Circus Party Success!

Delaney’s Dumbo Circus birthday party was so much fun! Here’s a few of the moments I captured with my camera – I am very grateful my dad and some of the other moms were taking photos, too! What a fun way to kick-off age 5!

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Circus Party Details

Delaney will be five tomorrow! We are busy planning and prepping for this weekend’s Dumbo Circus party she requested. We’re trying to keep it simple and inexpensive, while still meeting all her party requirements! Here’s a few of the details that are ready to go: Invitations – I was inspired by these to create a [...]

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Our Favorite Drawing Books

Natalie, my six-year-old, has always been somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to art (and life in general!). When she was a toddler, she wanted to watch people draw and color, but not do it herself. When she was four, many of her drawings were crumpled and thrown away because they didn’t turn out [...]

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Spinny Spellers

Have you seen the Spinny Speller? We are all quite enamored with this simple toy. Spin the wood blocks and spell basic consonant-vowel-consonant words (you can make 36 real words, and dozens more silly ones, too!). The first time Delaney, age 4, played with the Spinny Speller she successfully sounded out a few words than [...]

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First Embroidery

After lots of practice sewing on plastic canvas, the girls have been begging to do some “real” sewing. I think I was procrastinating a bit, worried about Natalie getting too frustrated and Delaney needing oodles of help. I was wrong. Not only did they learn the backstitch in 2 seconds, they whipped out their first [...]

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Thanks, friends!

The blogging world is pretty awesome, and I feel so lucky to be a part of it! I am always flattered and quite thrilled when I see one of my blog posts or a note about my shop appear in someone’s blog. So, a big thank you goes out to these bloggers for sharing a [...]

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