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I trust all US readers had an excellent 4th of July. Ours was hot, hot, hot! We spent most of the day in my parents pool (here in Colorado – where the fires are finally starting to calm down and be contained. Hopefully no new ones will pop up!). We had a great time though. …
This simple and cute craft will be a will be the perfect accessory to your little darlings summer attire. For the full DIY head over to Handmade Charlotte. And a special thanks to our little friend for modeling. I think she looks just like an angel is this pic below. And thanks to her awesome …
Hi friends! My next craft installment for Handmade Charlotte is up today! Head on over and see how you can make your own set of colorful gradient blocks. You’ll love playing with them as much as yours kids do! And don’t forget to enter the giveaway to win two of my items for Mudpuppy. Like …
Hello friends! I’m thrilled to announce that I will crafting over at Handmade Charlotte this summer! Yippee! Rachel Faucett, of Handmade Charlotte, has one of the best eyes for modern and vintage children’s toys, crafts, games, clothes, you name it. If you are not following her deliciously inspiring pins, I suggest you start doing so …
After Jon and I had been married for a few years Jon’s parents went on a trip to Europe. Knowing our love of theater, puppeteering and European toys in general, they returned home with two pop-up puppets for us. I have loved having them around (as have the boys) and have often looked over at …
The boys and I had a fun weekend working on some artwork for their room. We’ve been in our new place for over six months and I think it’s high time we got something on the walls, particularly in the boys room. I wanted to do something simple and graphic, and most importantly, something that …
We like to do handmade Christmas cards for the teachers, etc. during the season and apparently we’ve hit on a tree theme that we just can’t shake. This year we had a lot of fun “finger painting”…but not in typical sense of the craft. I made a simple tree graphic and printed it out on …
We’ve been having a lot of spooky fun over here – attending gigantic pumpkin contests, going on school field trips to Pumpkin Land and most recently making these very fun paper mache Halloween puppets. They are pretty simple and the boys are in love with them. In fact, little O now asks to play with …
OK, so Fridays are serious business at Little A’s school (and consequentially, for Little A as well). They are spirit days and if you wear red or a viking shirt (or both!) you get a treat and earn points for your class. The class that gets the most points wins the “Viking” to keep in …
These past few weeks have been a crazy whirlwind of moving, getting Little A ready to start Kindergarten (sigh..) and working on a number of illustration jobs. To keep me up at night and plowing forward, I consumed a marathon’s worth of HGTV Design Star, Dear Genevieve and finally managed to get caught up with …