Guest Post :: A Little Bit of Heaven Craft

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I’m excited to have a couple of guest posts this week.  First up is Jennifer from Crafolic.com.  She’s a Catholic, homeschooling mom of many who, unlike me, actually does lots of cute crafts with her children.  She created this one just for our family.  You know how much I love cute and easy crafts.  We […]

Happy St. Valentine’s Day

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We have a short school week due to a vacation, so we decided to put away our formal studies and focus on St. Valentine for a couple of days.  Contrary to popular belief, Valentine’s Day is not a made up Hallmark holiday, although like many other holidays it certainly has been secularized!  I have to […]

Crafty Boy Project

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Jonah is always game for a project.  He is interested in lots of different things, but as he is getting older some of the cut and paste stuff is growing a little boring.  Unfortunately, many of the projects out there are aimed at girls, not crafty boys.For Jonah’s birthday in April, we bought him the […]

5 "Must Do" Summer Crafts

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Everyone knows that the words “lazy days of summer” are a big lie.  During the months on June, July and August, my kids play harder, get dirtier, and sleep less than at any other time of the year.  Maybe as everyone grows older we will experience more of those lazy, sipping lemonade in a hammock […]

Yarn Along ~ #8

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I finished up the socks for my daughter.  She is happy with the way they turned out and it was an easy pattern for my first time.  I decided to take a break from the dpn’s for a bit and work on a couple of dish clothes, I am using Meredith’s pattern found here.  Then […]

A Sock ~ Yarn Along #7

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Last week I thought my new project would be leg warmers, but I decided I didn’t think the yarn I had in mind would be quite right.  I opted to start a pair of socks for my daughter instead.  So far I am really happy with they way they are turning out.   Last week […]

A Finished Snake! ~ Yarn Along #6

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I missed not linking up with Ginny’s Yarn Along last week.  However, the snake was still not finished and I was (am) still working on the same book, Brideshead Revisited.  Plus, last week was a busy one so I reluctantly skipped it.  I am glad to be back with a knitting post this week. Ta […]

Snowbound ~ Yarn Along #5

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Snow, snow, and more snow!  We aren’t going anywhere today, or probably tomorrow for that matter.  So the good news is we should have plenty of time to knit and read. Everyone wants to get in on the action. The snake continues to progress.  Jacob wasn’t sure he liked the snake with the big orange […]

Coldest Days of January

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Yesterday, January 31st,  we read Days of the Blackbird by Tomie dePaola.  According to the story the last three days of January are supposed to be the very coldest.  It certainly has been cold here, especially today!  The story goes that birds sit at the top of chimneys to keep warm during these most frigid […]

Same Snake, Same Book

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I am so glad to be finished with the increases and decreases in the snake head.  That was some tedious work!  I have a tendency to make my stitches tight and that didn’t help the situation, but I persevered.  It’s not perfect but it certainly could be much worse.  Now I am starting the stripes […]