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Children Tutorials

an (artsy) field journal

January 24, 2012 Art

I wish this were mine.  But like many of my kids’ creative projects, they are made for their friends.  (I’m happy this one was for a little friend named Will who just turned four.)

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popcorn balls and garland

January 18, 2012 Art
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nurse (nancy) johanna

January 17, 2012 Children Tutorials
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homemade giving: a journal kit

December 15, 2011 Art

Caroline is ready for her first journal.  This is quite an exciting milestone since her mother filled easily 15 journals in her lifetime.  I can’t wait for her to discover the fulfillment of writing and then reading and seeing who she’s become over time. Journaling will also be an incredible writing exercise for my little [...]

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homemade giving: a sewing kit

December 14, 2011 Children Tutorials

As you saw yesterday, I’m a little obsessed with jars for gift giving.  Hopefully you don’t mind, there are more jarred gifts to come.  Today–a simple sewing kit in a jar for my up and coming seamstress, Caroline.

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homemade giving: artsy felt sketchbook cover

December 5, 2011 Art

After last week which was filled with wonderful visitors (friends from college and their little toddlers), this weekend came and granted me some time away at the sewing machine.  Saturday morning, Johanna warded off Caroline from the basement so we could get moving on her present from her sister.  A little something that we knew [...]

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the hanging mobile

December 1, 2011 Art

Today is December 1st.  Mary and Joseph can now begin to make their journey (via velcro) to the manager on our hanging advent calendar, something that my girls have been anticipating for a week now.  All of the gingerbread cookie ornaments have been raised to the top half of the tree for the twins’ sake, [...]

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projects revisited: children’s pop art

November 11, 2011 Art

Here’s a little mixed-media art experiment for the kiddos on this chilly November Friday.  This is just the right project for a blustery day spent indoors.

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a homemade water station mat

November 2, 2011 Children Tutorials

A few weeks ago, we had had it.  There were about 5 glasses per person, per day making their way into the dishwasher daily. I tried to figure out a way to keep one glass per child per day to keep down the washing and keep the girls (and myself) more responsible.  My solution was [...]

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updating the writing box…

October 11, 2011 Art

  When I get around to it, I like to keep the writing box stocked with inviting notecards for not only my writing girls but for me. There have been so many moments over the past year that we’ve captured through photography that we, in turn, turn into notecards.  Many Sunday afternoons the girls and [...]

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