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Quick chocolate or cherry pie filling croissants
This was our quick dessert for our quickly improvised Lady Bug Café for Valentines Day dinner. You will need: A Pillsbury crescent tube (2 or 3 if you are more or want more) Chocolate chips Cherry pie filling I laid out the dough like you normally would to make the crescents. Then I put 3 cherries from the filling in the middle (biggest area) of the crescent triangle, then I folded the dough over and sealed it to the bottom … Read entire article »
Filed under: Baking, Cooking/Baking, English, Home
Quick Lady Bug Café sign
This was our quick sign for our quickly improvised Lady Bug Café for Valentines Day dinner. I didn’t have a big poster board and couldn’t go buy one as Nico was sleeping. So I took 4 pink cardstocks and taped them together. Then I penciled the letters for the name, free handed. Don’t press to hard or it’ll be hard to erase, but I erased just enough to not have it show through the paint and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Glitter, Holiday Crafts, Home, Valentine's Day
EE the mouse and her house
If you haven’t met EE in our paper bag cheese post you can also meet her here in her house. After making her a cheese I thought she could use a house. I asked Nico if he also wanted a house for EE, he jumped up and down so I took that as a yes. I needed to do this quick and I remembered seeing a little printable bird house on Frugal Family Fun. So … Read entire article »
The great pretender – why pretend play is so important
Children are known to pretend play many of life’s every day situations and I know that there are many people out there who think that it is stupid, because it, to them, does not amount to anything, since there are no rules involved in the play and whatnot. Needless to say that the vast majority of these people either are far away from parenthood as I am from reciting “War & Piece” backwards in Kisuaheli, or if they are actually parents do not care or do not get it… In an earlier post in our “Thoughts” category I had referred to investing into your children and how important and easy it sometimes is to concentrate on the basics. If you look at your children, they are like a sponge, they absorb … Read entire article »
Valentines Day 2012
After having our Valentines Day dinner the night before at Wendy’s with our 2 can dine for 8.99 coupon with Nico and his little burber (burger) meal, we were happy. We saved money, no big waiting time and no dinner tantrum, YAY! So the next day it’s back to business, check other blogs, answering their statuses on Facebook, looking for posts to share, I stumbled upon this post from a blog I really like, I Can … Read entire article »
Filed under: English, Home, Life, Simple Pleasures
Sweet memories – Valentines Day 2011
Last year at the same date we hadn’t done any Valentines Day craft like this year, we hadn’t bought presents like this year, we hadn’t planned a homemade dinner like this year, nor had we gone out. Sounds negative and boring? It might, but it wasn’t, now it just reminds us of the simpler times back then, we just made a batch of chocolate muffins, wore a shirt with red and had fun doing it. … Read entire article »
Heart coffee filter zipper pull
As part of our Valentines Day snail mail swap, I wanted Nico to make something for the kids to use. He enjoys coloring on coffee filters, so I thought suncatcher… nah not “useful” enough. Ok what else could we do using those laminated coffee filters…well they do become waterproof. Kids like things hanging off their zippers. Zipper pulls! So I had him do a few red coffee filters. I figured we’d get a really nice red going … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Home, Valentine's Day
Baked play dough heart pins, magnets & hair clip
Nico wanted to play with his Kool-Aid play dough, he picked the left over pinkish glittery one. Valentines Day was approaching, so I thought I would give him a heart shape cookie cutter. He went to town making hearts! I couldn’t roll the dough quickly enough, lol. I started putting them on a cookie sheet and thought to myself, let’s make some red play dough to go with this pink and we are in business to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Holiday Crafts, Home, Valentine's Day
Pretend play – baking
If you have been following “Glittering Muffins”, you will have noticed a thing or two about Nico, one of which is a certain affinity towards cooking and baking. Nah, who am I kidding, the kids loves to cook and bake, real and pretend and ever since he was really little he always came back to this and the other day he showed an amazing display of focus and diligence in his quest for the perfect … Read entire article »
Filed under: Activities, English, Indoors
Cards of many hearts (Valentines Day snail mail swap)
A blogging mom (Dinosaurs and Octopuses) decided to organize a good old fashioned Valentines Day snail mail swap between other willing blogging moms. Kids make the Valentines cards and we mail them out between us (them), has to be handmade, after all we are all crafty and that’s what we blog about We had done a quick & easy Valentines Day card and envelope before but I wanted something different. I’ve seen many different … Read entire article »
Filed under: Crafts, English, Glitter, Holiday Crafts, Home, Valentine's Day
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