by Julie | Oct 6, 2009
The biggest failure from the Summer Jar was making a cardboard stool from Foldschool.com. Or, I guess it depends on how you look at it. The final result was a failure, but the process had some good points. This ended up being a project that didn’t have much to...
by Julie | Jul 31, 2009
Well, my recent dive back into knitting has produced its first finished object: a scarf made out of Patons Pooch. It’s pretty fuzzy and cuddly. Zuzu picks it up and holds it while sucking her thumb if her blankie is unavailable. Henry has been wearing it as a...
by Julie | Jul 30, 2009
Another summer jar activity: make multicolored crayon blocks out of runty crayon remnants. I saw it in Scholastic magazine. You all should do this today; it took no time at all and the kids thought it was magic. First take all your little stupid crayon bits, and put...
by Julie | Dec 24, 2008
Here’s how the gingerbread house making went: First, we went to the Old Port Candy Co. to get candy. I figured this was better than getting giant bags of 12 different candies at the grocery store and then having leftovers. So we were able to get individual gummy...
by Julie | Dec 16, 2008
I really like having a wreath on the front door at Christmastime. But am I the only one who finds it doesn’t work so well in practice? It always seemed like it was banging all over the place and that I would get impromptu cornea surgery via pine needle whenever...
by Julie | Dec 3, 2008
1. Read a post at Maya Made telling me to save toilet paper tubes for some sort of advent calendar project. While waiting for her to announce what her project is, I come up with what I think it will be. 2. Maya reveals her project, which is not what I imagined....
