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Ottoman Dumpster Diving

· categorized in Repurposing Tutorials, Sewing Tutorials,

At our apartments we have discovered that there is a little unofficial free giveaway. It consists of an clean enclosed space next to the dumpster. Old stuff with great potential is left there frequently. When I saw a ottoman that needed a little love, I couldn’t resist. It was sound structurally and just needed to …

Learning with Technology

· categorized in Homeschool, Kids,

Tomorrow we are off Thanksgiving break. This is the time of year where, “Get it done” too often comes to mind when I think of the rest of our home school year. I can tend to get rushed and cut corners and neglect some of the great tools I used earlier in the year. Instead, …

Because Art Can Be Eaten

· categorized in Food, Kids,

So, every year I try to convince my kids that cupcakes would be nice for their birthdays. Cupcakes are so easy to decorate. So… easy. It never works. My now 5 year old and 9 year old have their birthdays 3 days apart and they love to plan elaborate detailed designs for their cakes. It …

Numbers

· categorized in Homeschool, Miscellaneous,

Math is one of my personal favorite subjects lately. I’m becoming a math geek as I’ve been very interested in the theory and application of mathematics and have been surprised as I learn, how much of it I am applying to life. As with everything, I try to pass down the love of learning to …

Refrigerator Grammer

· categorized in Homeschool,

Have you ever seen refrigerator poetry; little magnetic words that go on the refrigerator? Well, this plethora of little words has been around our house a long time and we like to arrange them into poems or funny sayings. It makes a great quick creative writing fix while waiting for supper to finish. The other …

A Kitty

· categorized in Crochet Patterns,

One of the things my little niece loves about visiting my house is my cats. So, I thought for her birthday I’d make her a kitty. I love being able to translate the lines of a thing into crochet and I tried it with a bit of an abstract vintage looking sitting kitty this time. …

Dad Rocks

· categorized in Kids, Miscellaneous,

For my husband’s birthday this year the kids wanted to make him some things. I think they also wanted to play with clay. Israel decided to make a our family out of clay and recruited Drew’s help for the faces and girls. Drew made a Dad Rocks decoration/paper weight/door stop out of rocks. We got …

Functional Decorations

· categorized in My Home,

In our little apartment, one of my favorite storage solutions is functional decorations. I love it when our useful things are also beautiful enough to do double duty as some wall art or super accessible and creative knickknacks. Our most obvious and striking example might be the bike that hangs on our wall. It’s my …

A First Day of (Home) School Pep Talk

· categorized in Homeschool,

Tomorrow we start. I feel like I’m holding my breath as I scramble around spending precious minutes getting everything settled or prepared. After that, hours of my day will be carved out and devoted to teaching my kids and exploring and learning with them. I home school and this year I have a 4th grader, …

Framed with fabric

· categorized in Miscellaneous, My Home,

I love a good easy instant fix for my creative side! I had some fabric and, inspired by this, I wrapped it around a frame. I want to do it with a few different sizes and fabrics and layer them here for some more depth and color. I’m slowly but surely stepping into using more …