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February 9th, 2010

Yo-Yo Curtains: Tutorial

Thank you to Heather for being willing to guest post for me today.   Heather has a degree in home economics and now homeschools her four children.  She blogs at Kingdom Arrows and also has the distinct privilege of being one of my real life friends.

Bet you thought I was going to talk about [...]

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December 10th, 2009

Monogrammed Burlap Pillows: Kids Can Make This

Here is another gift that our younger children (1, 3, 4, 6 and 7 year old) are making for family this year.  (Don’t worry, I warned the family who regularly reads my blog not to read this week, so hopefully no surprises will be ruined.)

I saw this at We are THAT Family and once again [...]

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December 9th, 2009

Christmas Ornament Tutorial: Kids Can Make This

Each year the children like to make gifts to hand out to everyone who comes over to our home during the month of December.  When my friend Betsy, came to our Mom’s Meeting (our topic was Christmas gifts), brought these cute ornaments and told us how to make them, I knew that this is what [...]

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December 1st, 2009

Celebrating Christmas

There is an interesting discussion going on in the Raising Olives Community about celebrating Advent.  Our family is just learning and deciding what and how we want to celebrate this special time of year, so I’d love to hear your input on how you celebrate the coming of Jesus, our Lord and Savior to live [...]

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November 24th, 2009

Thankful Tree Project

We aren’t doing a ton of decorating this year for Thanksgiving, but I did want to incorporate a Thankful Tree.  As the month wore on I wasn’t sure we would get to it.

The idea is to create a tree and on each leaf to write something for which you are thankful.  Often families will start [...]

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