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Watercolor Resist Painting

March 19, 2012

The boys and I have inadvertently settled into a habit of crafting together after school about once per week. In the past, I’ve tried really hard to get the boys to do art projects with me as a regular thing but they were never all that interested. I sought out projects I thought they’d be [...]

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Projects from Pinterest I’ve Actually Done

February 22, 2012

I’ve started to notice some backlash against my beloved Pinterest lately. There is no doubt that the site if filled with tons of creative inspiration but lots of people have begun to question how many people are spending their free time completing projects they’ve pinned on Pinterest and how many are frittering that time away [...]

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How to Cut Paper Snowflakes

January 19, 2012

I realize that many of you are up to your necks in real snowflakes at the moment, but here in the SF Bay area it has been bone dry all winter. I’m not trying to say that we would normally be strapping on our snow shoes at this time of year or anything but we’ve [...]

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40th Year Project: Part 5

January 16, 2012

Time for the January update on my 40th year project. Woo hoo! This month I started digging into the box of super-special-save-forever treasures that I packed up and sent to California when I helped my parents move out of my childhood home several years ago. Though my parents had made changes to my room in [...]

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Gingerbread House 2011!

December 19, 2011

Yesterday the boys and I made our 5th Annual Copley Gingerbread House. I’d like to say that after doing this so many years in a row this project is old hat and we crank it out quickly and easily, but I would be lying. Lying like a rug! In fact, I think this was the [...]

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Our December, So Far

December 15, 2011

We’ve been having a pretty great December so far. Somehow we’ve managed to pack a bunch of fun stuff in while also keeping it pretty low-key. I’m not sure how things are working out like that, but I’ll take it. A lot of the stuff we’ve been doing are activities from the advent calendar but [...]