Magical Mama Nancy shared this poem and I had to pass it on. It speaks to me! Anybody who’s seen my living room will understand why. 😉 DUST IF YOU MUST (Author unknown) Dust if you must but wouldn’t it be better To paint a picture or write a letter, Bake a cake or plant…
Month: June 2010
Veggie Match Cards, Mama Mojo and Perfume From Flowers
Katherine Marie Photography has the most adorable little veggie cards for you to print out and use for games like Concentration or Go Fish! Click here to get your set. In other news… Nine ways to get your mama mojo back and Making flowers into perfume Happy Tuesday!
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Hello magical people! It’s the start of a fabulous new week and here’s some ways to make the most of it… 1. Buy a pack of toilet paper for the sole purpose of goofy fun. Wrap your kids up into mummies, make toilet paper streamers and run through the yard, toss it and see how…
Magical Decorating Tip #1
Start collecting prisms to hang from windows. Kids are enchanted by these “diamonds” and the way they fill the room with rainbows whenever the sun hits them. Hang them by sturdy embroidery floss, high out of the reach of babies. An eastern window will catch the first light of the day.
A Door to Anywhere
Daryl has been on the lookout for an old fashioned screen door for a play he’s putting on in September. Last week, he spotted one by the street for trash pick-up and snagged it. When he got it home, he realized it seemed to be made for very tiny people (!) and would not work…
Five Fun Crafts to Try Soon!
We’re back from Nebraska and I’m slowly catching up writing, laundry, gardening and mess making (ahem, I mean cleaning!). While I’m doing that, here’s a bit of what’s on my crafty radar this week…. Homemade Puffy Paint An oldie but goodie… Melted Crayon Art Not a craft but a recipe we made last weekend… Monkey…
10 Ways to Make Today Magical
Hello from Nebraska! We’re on a mini-vacation to see Magical Mama Tiffany and her family. We’ve had fabulous thunderstorms and much tea. I’m not sure what’s on the agenda for the two days we’ll be here other than more rain and more tea, but that sounds wonderful to me. So now, courtesy of me, Tiffany…
Kids Only: What’s Your Favorite Chapter Book?
I heard from the author of the Fuse 8 blog yesterday about why she had not included all of the children’s votes for the 100 favorite children’s book list. She wrote: Well, just to justify the tampering, had I allowed every child vote to count (and initially I did) you would have seen numbers 1-50…
100 Favorite Children’s Novels
The School Library Journal’s Fuse 8 blog conducted a survey recently of favorite children’s books and these are the top 100 (after being tampered with so that children’s votes were not always counted — see the edit note at the end). While I’m not a fan of the way the voting was done, I love…
A Quote for a Friday
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice ” -Peggy O’Mara