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Snowman hand print Christmas balls
(the pic above was taken by Nico) (26 months) Nov. 13, 2011, Nico was making all the ornaments that went into our tree that year so we made a lot! I didn’t just want to do cookie cutter ornaments so I saw these snowman hand print balls somewhere online, honestly can’t remember where and decided we could do those. Now this was pre-blog era so I don’t have step by step photos, but I can tell … Read entire article »
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My size flat me Santa
Two years ago Nico was scared of Santa so this is what happened. Him crying and clenching onto my neck. Last Christmas he still was hesitant about it so I talked a lot with him about Santa and how, like the doctor, we don’t see him much but he’s nice and so on. It helped a little but he needed a bigger visual so that’s why I came up with this life size (his size) Santa. We could … Read entire article »
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DIY cone advent calendar
Last year, pre-blog era (explains lack of pics), we needed a specific calendar size for Nico since we were putting letters we made in them, so we made it. Since you need to do this 24 times I didn’t want it to be hard or long to do, had to be doable in an hour max with the two of us (Alex and I). So I got the different rolls of Christmas paper we accumulated … Read entire article »
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Real fall leaf magnets
(Oct 18, 2012) I’ve been pondering how to preserve fall leaves, I tried Mod Podge, they curled up. I thought of contact paper, but it doesn’t seal that well… I was talking with hubby about my conundrum when he came up with a BRILLIANT idea! So I tried his brilliant idea after nap time this afternoon, when Nico got up I explained to him that he could pick pretty, still soft, not curled up leaves … Read entire article »
Father’s day secret gift (craft)
Are you curious to know what we did for Father’s Day this year? Well, I had to keep it a secret from Alex, who is also blogging here, since it would not be the same, if he knew it ahead of time, now would it? Click here to see my guest post at Creekside Learning, who was nice enough to host it We are still working on the card, so has I post this, … Read entire article »
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Tinkerlab’s Creative Challenge: Flowers – sensory pictures
So once again Nico is in a no mood, or TV mood if you prefer, and didn’t participate too much. I think he may have liked this with real flowers because he could have smelled them. He’s really into smell right now and it would make a for a wonderful sensory experience with all the smells and textures but since I’m allergic to them I had use fake ones. I just disassembled/cut the flowers in pieces and … Read entire article »
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Hand-made card prints for Mother’s Day
When looking for inspiration for a Mother’s Day gift from both Nico and I for Valerie, I stumbled upon a great idea of hand-made card prints from Let’s Explore and immediately knew that this was a perfect thing to do and give Maman something special It’s really easy and quick to do and just like Amy @ Let’s Explore wrote, it is addictive! So what do you need? A flat, wipeable surface (such as a … Read entire article »
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Fillable egg carton bunnies
Most of you have made things from egg cartons before, generally speaking it’s the little caterpillar, we made some of those a few weeks back, too, for the first time. I was gonna enter them in Tinkerlab’s egg carton challenge even though it wasn’t original. It was bugging me though, I needed to find something else… I thought for weeks and with Easter approaching and us having done no crafts for it (we were Valentines … Read entire article »
Valentines keepsake frame
A bunch of blogging moms decided to have their kids exchange Valentines (see Valentines Day swap) and it turns out this was Nico’s firsts Valentines he got. So I wanted to make a keepsake for him of it all, so while talking about it with my mother, she suggested a frame which I thought was a great idea! I also asked all the moms to send me a pic of their kids so I could … Read entire article »
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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 »
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