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weekly round about #74

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It’s been a stellar week around here – lots of Valentine’s Day shenanigans and sweet sentiments. Plus, a sturdy dose of freelance work that’s keeping my mind zinging along at high speed too! Now it’s time to play a little catch up around the house, and see if I can’t calm my brain back down. [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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You’ve made it! Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. May it be filled with lots of love in whatever forms you can get it – friends, family, lovers, cats, or fish. Enjoy this little bunny illustration, I’ve been messing around with ProCreate for my iPad and a stylus. So much fun. Stressing about last minute Valentine’s ideas? [...]

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hand out some love tokens

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I mentioned last week that I’ve been racking my brain for a good handmade Valentine’s idea for my 3 year old. We need to make little Valentine’s for 25 of Birdie’s classmates at school, and I really wanted it to be something unique and fun for her to make. So, inspired by these salt dough [...]

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give them the world

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Whenever I ask my husband “What do you want for xxxx holiday?” (Christmas, Birthday, Valentine’s Day) I get the same response. “World Peace.” Said, of course, tongue in cheek. So I started taking him at his word. I never know what to get him anyway, so it’s fun to pull together bits of our history [...]

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make this: geo DIY valentine’s hearts

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Birdie loves her Glue Work. This is a term she’s brought home from her Montessori classroom, and it’s something we like to do a lot. Normally it involves a glue stick and lots of scraps cut by moi (I’m not positive that’s how it works in a Montessori school, but it works well for us!). [...]

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free valentine’s day printable cards for you

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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Print these now, add your very own personal message, one well-placed googly eye (I like’em extra big, don’t you?) and give them to everyone you’ve ever looked sideways at. If I still rode the bus I’d like to be that kooky person that hands one to each person on their morning [...]

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weekend roundabouts #73 – Valentine’s edition!

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It’s February! Time to let your sappy heart-filled side out to play in the sun. I secretly love Valentine’s Day – the handmade sweet sentimental side, not the Hallmark version. So we’ve been decorating a little bit, crafting a little bit, and brainstorming several fun things to include here on the blog. I’m hoping to [...]

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a more sophisticated art kit: Kimmel Kids

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It’s pretty amazing what you can do when you have the right building blocks. Or, in the case of Kimmel Kids, the right stencils and pencils. Karen Kimmel began the project as a series of creativity workshops – encouraging participants to make their own creations using the same basic forms and shapes. It grew into [...]

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momma: valentine’s style files

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So many pretty things, so little time. Valentine’s Day is a wonderful chance to get a little something that’s completely impractical. But I’d like to think they’re still perfectly necessary. These are some things that have caught my fancy on etsy lately: Knit Scarf, Denizgunes Knitting, $75 | Copper Arrow Ring, Miju & You, $24 [...]

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weekend picks #69

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This is the week that never was. We all careen into Christmas, then lurch through a blank week of no-school, semi-vacation, post-sugar-rush and post-christmas-letdown, smacking directly into New Year’s. Ooph. I’m still trying to dig out from the piles of wonderful things that we’ve accumulatd over the past week, how about you? It has me [...]

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boredom busters of the arty kind: day 4

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You know I can never turn down a good DIY musical instrument. Minieco has a couple of gorgeous options that are making me drool. These projects are pretty simple, and the added pops of color are adding stars to my eyes! They aren’t as make-it-friendly for the super young’uns, but if one (younger creative one) [...]

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boredom busters of the arty kind: day 3

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We’ve returned home from our Holiday celebrations to a great big mess, including lots and lots and lots of boxes. (that’s not including the several boxes worth of loot we’ve also hauled home with us – including 3 boxes full of vintage books and toys from my childhood – score!). It’s definitely a great week [...]

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happy holidays: link love

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It’s here. It’s finally here, the weekend we plan and hope and wait for all month long – and I think, honestly, for several months prior to that! I just love the holidays, and I hope you’re having a wonderful time out there enjoying yours. Here’s some last minute links to keep you extra-busy today! [...]

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our handmade wooden doll family

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I have several little handmade projects I’d like to complete for Birdie this Christmas, I probably won’t get to all of them! But I found time for this little family – which I stuffed in her Advent Calendar yesterday! Can you tell which one is Birdie, myself and her Daddy-O? (Hint: She’s got the glasses!) [...]

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weekends with birdie: a snowy advent calendar

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Whoa Nelly. We had a big weekend of snowy arty fun around here. I wanted to share with you the results of my efforts: a handmade advent calendar with a little extra modern Je ne sais quoi. I kept it nice and minimal so that we can change out the colored wrapping paper or numbers [...]

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