The Carnival of Homeschooling is Up
The Carnival of Homeschooling is up at The Common Room I really like this week’s theme: Let’s Do Lunch – with kid tested recipes
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First Day of School
Dan took the little kids to the zoo yesterday so I could finish organising myself. I have set aside the books I need, written two die cut lists of things I need to do everyday with M, attached them to Continue reading First Day of School
Organise Me
Organise me: sounds like a pastry Alice should have found in Wonderland. I have tidied my cabinets, ordered curricula, written my long term goals for the year, today is the “organise one sixth,” day. But I feel like I’m forgetting Continue reading Organise Me
{pretty, funny, happy, real} Hurricane Irene
Funny: I knew the power would go out, I didn’t expect it to take so long for it to come back. Fortunately, my Mom lives only a mile away, and has a freezer chest and grill. We “helped” Continue reading {pretty, funny, happy, real} Hurricane Irene
We got the Power!
My Mom remembered the week of no power back in the early ’80’s when a willow crashed through my bedroom window and damaged our landlord’s roof. She stocked up better than I did, so we ate at her house a Continue reading We got the Power!
What to Blog about…my Upcoming Design Site
I will need to be writing for my customers, not myself or other designers, when I get my design site set up. At least according to the Creative Blog in who are you writing for? That’s tough. I don’t actually Continue reading What to Blog about…my Upcoming Design Site
What to blog about…What to share about homeschooling
Jimmie’s Collage just posted about Balancing the Good and the Bad on your Homeschool Blog ending with the question If you are a homeschool blogger, how do you ride this line between being too rosy and being too negative? I Continue reading What to blog about…What to share about homeschooling
What to blog about…pattern design
What Designers can learn from Working in a Yarn Store., Dark Matter Knits‘s post made me think through the designs I’ve made in the past, and the ones I’m trying to write up. I realised that Herringbone Parallelogram Scarf hit Continue reading What to blog about…pattern design
Carnival of Homeschooling, the Tell Me Summer isn’t Almost Over Edition
My family finished up last year’s homeschool two weeks ago. Saturday was the Family Fun Fair at church, and a week ago yesterday the kids and I started organising the house. I have all my homeschool paper work filed with Continue reading Carnival of Homeschooling, the Tell Me Summer isn’t Almost Over Edition
Herringbone Parallelogram Scarf Pattern is up for sale today
I wanted to enable “stash diving” so the sizes are actually fingering (sport, dk, worsted) weight yarns, for ease of substitution. Finished Size 48” by 8 (8.5, 8.5, 8)”, 122 cm by 20 (21.5, 21.5, 20) cm. Materials 540 (450, Continue reading Herringbone Parallelogram Scarf Pattern is up for sale today
Some things are Ephemeral
M got a silver dragon painted on his cheek after much thought at the Family Fun Fair. When I hurried him toward bed, he paused, then asked if he really had to wash his hair and face. Well, yes of Continue reading Some things are Ephemeral
Family Fun Fair
Saturday I’ll be explaining the Gospel to random children that come to our Free Family Fun Fair. I’m organising the explanation around the colors of the wordless book but taking inspiration from a CEF publication, we are using a watermelon, Continue reading Family Fun Fair