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crafts

Sea Animal Craft for First Graders

April 10, 2007

OK, friends and crafters, I am asking for your ideas. Wild Thing’s class needs to make ocean animals for a school library contest. The winning class gets $50 worth of books from the book fair next week. I am going to supervise/help the children make the animals. I’d love to see this teacher win the [...]

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Valentine’s = Spin Art

February 13, 2007

Well, it’s February. More than that, it’s one day to Valentine’s, which, in our house, means the yearly spin art extravaganza. Ever since my children were two and four, respectively, we have made spin art valentines for their friends. Because I am nothing if not predictable, this year was no different. I give you the [...]

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More Craftiness

December 13, 2006

If you had told me even two years ago that I would be sewing anything by myself on my very own sewing machine I probably would have fallen down laughing. When I picked myself up I would have wanted to smell your drink to ensure you weren’t hitting it hard in the middle of the [...]

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I’m a Winner!

December 8, 2006

My good friend made a quilt (in our school district’s colors) for the school to raffle off to raise money. Tickets have been available for purchase since the first of the year. I’ve been referring to it as MY quilt ever since I saw it. We finally had the drawing just before Thanksgiving. Guess what? [...]

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My Crafty Weekend

December 4, 2006

OK, I said I’d have pictures and I do. Here are the stockings my mom and I worked on a few weeks ago. I finally got all the bells sewn on to Wild Thing’s. The only thing I did on the dragon stocking is sew the black stocking part together. All the dragon and fire [...]

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