My musings on our homeschool, coop, figuring out what my educational philosophy is anyway, and will I ever make curtains for the rest of the appartment?
One way to stort your digital photos opps, I mean SORT your digital photos. There is nothing like seeing how someone else tackles a job to get the idea, and Stacy really keeps things positive. She’s starting a series on Continue reading A Cheery Scrap Booking How-to from Stacy Julien
K nursed herself to sleep half an hour ago, so I just finished re-engineering the elastic for my pants. Phew. Now we can move the sewing stuff, and I can get dressed even if I’m a day or two behind Continue reading My New Denim Pull on Pants
Last night My Mom and I picked up paint chips and fabric swatches for the coming study/living room switch. She had some fabric to cut with a long line (teal flowered Easter skirt), so I ambled over to the scrapbooking Continue reading You can’t go wrong with Carnivores
rotating the toys in the children’s room ;-) I was reading the last Simple Scrapbooks magazine last night in bed, and Hmm-ing at the suggested ways to use rubber stamps, when my husband asked me what the article was about. Continue reading Finding new ways to use rubber stamps is like…
As a part of my organize the workshop project, I’ve been thinking about roadblocks to scrapbooking. Like most women’s hobbies, scrapbooking involves guilt. Here is a list of hobbies followed by possible guilt road blocks. They are meant to be Continue reading My new notebook of scrapbooking sketches and musings on guilt
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DH is a genius. For my Birthday last week, he gave me two romantic/fantasy YA novels and said he’d read them aloud to me if I rubbed his head (he claims he would watch a blue screen, let alone a Continue reading Fun Read
The section divider to keep the things my husband collected around NYC after 9/11, when he ran a ham radio station for the red cross, separate from the regular baby/wedding reunion pictures A very busy page, what a jig saw Continue reading An Assortment of my scrapbook Projects
I did NOT clean the house this Friday or Saturday. I sewed on the boy’s Roman Shades, the dark-green-dragon-matching-shades I’ve been meaning to sew since last December. And this afternoon I tied them up to "train" them, like putting Continue reading Callooh! Callay!
Back in the Summer, I noticed how the volunteers at Blithewold sorted their Spring bulb choices by a game: cutting the photos of bulbs out of the catalog, then making piles of the bulbs that will go together beautifully in Continue reading Collage as Organization tool
The Carnival of Homeschooling is up at Corn and Oil. I have a submission in it.