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Bruneau Dunes - My family and I decided, spur of the moment, to explore Bruneau Dunes. It's one of those things we had been talking about doing for quite awhile but hadn't...
angelicscalliwags

The Great Book Bonanza Give Away! - Begins again today with one book being given away between today and Friday! Please click icon below to be taken to the page (or alternatively click on the...
Mt. Hope Chronicles

Food for Thought ~ The Burden of My Neighbor’s Glory - [image: My Neighbor's Glory] *“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to thin...
All Things Beautiful

Science Sunday, What You Have Been Doing - [image: DSC_0613straw] *Angelicscaliwags *linked up a post about their doing simple daily science demonstrations and experiments, 365 Experiments in, well 3...
Almost Unschoolers

Do Cats Have Belly Buttons? Another Breakfast Conversation - A (age 13, one morning at breakfast) - Do cats have belly buttons? Me (looking up from my coffee, not quite awake) - What? A - When we were at Grandma'...
Ordinary Life Magic

Thursday : On the Mountain - Bet you didn't see that coming, did you? Skiing, I mean. Day six on the mountain. In spite of Maddie's being a bit intimidated by Moonbeam (she takes it ver...
mamascout

{read aloud} The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg - Our last book club selection was a Civil War era tale that wove together history, adventure, laugh out loud humor and the horrors of war. The Mostly Tr...
Teaching from a Tackle Box

Hope4ME - Helping Others Prepare for Montessori Education: Directed Materials Making - *Feel overwhelmed and wondering if your future with Montessori is on the rocks? * *Hope4ME will help you get your Montessori Materials in place one piece...
E is for Explore!

Play Dough Economics - *Snakes and Donuts: *This fun economics activity comes from Raki's Rad Resources. Students are given 1 minute to create as many snakes and donuts as they ...
The Artful Parent

Kids Art Frames That Rock - We have some new kids art frames that I’m pretty passionate about. Articulate Gallery is the name of the company that makes them and they sent one to me la...
Journey Into Unschooling

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a little crafty nest

one special moment - Joining in for the Friday moment with Amanda. A moment from the week that I want to linger over and savour. Dreams of horses and riding lessons abound in my ...
Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational

Color Theory for Kids {free printable color book} - I'm taking continuing education night classes in graphic design. A few nights into the class, we spent three hours on color theory. It was crazy cool and ...
The Magic Onions

Throwback Thursday : Our Little House on the Prairie - Oh my… how I love looking back through the years. Look at how adorable Teddy was in 2011! I came across these posts again… our Little House On The Prai...
Navigating By Joy

How being a productivity ninja is making me a more relaxed homeschooler - Last week when I was pondering the problem of having too many fun things to do, I came across the best titled book ever, How To Be A Productivity Ninja: Wo...
The Scientific Mom

The Twelve Days of Science! Day 12: Marshmallow Explosions! - *On the 12th Day of Christmas Science, my mommy made with me...Exploding snowmen and marshmallow peeps!* For our final project in The Twelve Days of Sci...
The Helpful Garden

Updates on Andon - And a Go Fund Me Account - Those who have been following this blog know that our youngest son, Andon, was recently diagnosed with and started treatment for leukemia. Once we left th...
My Montessori Journey

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Josh, Chandra, and Izzy: At Home and Abroad

Poetry, poetry, poetry! - As I've mentioned, we're continuing with poetry memorization this year (and hopefully for as long as we homeschool). It was a built-in part of the languag...
For Love of Education

Web Design and Technology - I am a techie. always have been. For some reason, I was able to understand computers and from the moment I used my first one back in 1988, I just knew what...
Home Chemistry

Interested in Homeschooling? - Find out how to homeschool chemistry -- and any other subject. Check out my articles on the About.com Homeschooling page!
Homeschooling Waldorf

Drawing Maps - My children say that I have an obsession with maps. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do think that we learn a lot about geography and history when we d...
We Don't Need No Education

A New Homeschool Blog - We have started another homeschool blog. This new directions is exciting to me for many reasons. The most important reason is because the kids are contrib...
LaPaz Home Learning

If you give a kid a piece of amber… - If you give a kid a piece of amber, she is going to want her microscope to look for insects. And then she is going to have a million questions… Topics of d...
Satori Smiles

Grade 3 2013-2014 Curriculum - Since moving to our new rental home, we still have a learning loft area where Satori and I can work together, but the wall was too small to fit our huge ...
The Chronicle of the Earth

More Resources - Make sure you check out Brenda's latest resources for SOTW on her blog too! She's been amazing at picking up the lapbook project!
Buntmond

That’s All Folks! :) - Liebe Blogleserinnen und -leser, hier endet unser Homeschooling-Abenteuer und dies ist auch der letzte Eintrag in diesem Blog. Vielen herzlichen Dank an al...
On The Shelf: A Picture Diary of Montessori Work In Our Classroom

Some springtime activities - Volcano work with baking soda and vinegar. Watch it erupt! Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar cutting strips! Print making with styrofoam. Farm...
Counting Coconuts

Where Am I? - Hi there! As you can see, I haven't been blogging regularly for several months now. This is a result of a sudden blog-break I had to take last fall, an...
Blog, She Wrote

Blog, She Wrote has moved! - Blog, She Wrote has moved to a new location: blogshewrote.org
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Spring Break Martial Arts Camps 2012 - Week 1: April 2-6 (Edmonds School District Spring Break) Week 2: April 16-20 (Northshore School District Spring Break) Gung Fu for Christ and Refuge Church...
5 Orange Potatoes

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julie: Indiana, United States; The lucky momma of two little blonde daddy clones, we spend our days eating cheese cubes and oranges, reading books about dinosaurs, pestering the dadda, and making junk out of other junk.

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an elephant parade - Back in October we did a guided drawing project that I had to do twice because I simply could not cut out these amazing elephants like we did last year. S...
The Polkadot Chair

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Zaaberry

New Cutting Tool // New Cutting Technique - I just recently started following the Brindille and Twig blog because I love their patterns so much. A recent post sent me to this video which is a basi...
Make It and Love It

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Indie Craft Sampler Winter Box Review - I shared this on the Indie Crafts blog at Craft Gossip (I'm the editor!) but I think these Indie Craft Sampler boxes are pretty neat, so I wanted to share ...
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Downton Abbey peg dolls - I'm pretty pleased with how these turned out. I got this idea to make maids from after seeing Lydia tie little aprons on her mushroom girl peg dolls. Then I ...
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Running With Scissors

Guest Bed - We have an attic bedroom in our house that has become the guest bedroom. I built a lovely little bed for the space. I decided to make the whole bed sligh...
The Crafty Crow

Melty Bead Bracelets Tutorial - I love this alternative way to craft with melty beads by melting them first then stringing them into bracelets. These would be so great as gifts for friend...
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Upcycling Cashmere Sweaters - This weekend I was decluttering my studio closet and came upon my stash of cashmere sweaters. I’ve been collecting (hoarding) them for years. Whenever I ...
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2015 Flurry and Flax and Twine Events - What a flurry 2015 has been so far! I received my first book dummy, that’s the first graphic layout of my book, right after Christmas. It was so exciting...
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Lego House on the Banks of Plum Creek - We've been spending our evenings reading the Little House series off and on for awhile now. I've really enjoyed family reading time now that we've finally ...
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Inspiration Blog Hop with Gossamer Blue! - Hello, hello! This month seems to be flying by - both a blessing and a bit of a pain as I rush to finish studying, projects and classes! I do love seeing...
A Little Hut - Patricia Zapata

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Project Run and Play

January's Challenge: The Link-up Party - We are so excited to get this sewing party started this year! You now know the tutorial, you know the rules but what you don't know is the prizes......we ...
Serving Pink Lemonade

Reviewing 2014 - We're still at it! Fall 2014 marked our six year anniversary at Serving Pink Lemonade! Even with the busyness of our growing families (Jeanine and I bot...
Family Chic

Paper Bag Wreath (& Chalkboard) - Use what you have to create one-of-a-kind holiday decor...
Blue Dinosaurs Blog

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Twig and Toadstool

Pinecone Ninjas - I wanted to make something a little different this year for an ornament… with my daughters newfound love of nunchuks, I opted to make some ninjas for the ...
Diary of a Crafty Chica

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The Mother Huddle

Thanksgiving: 9 Ways to Familyness - Let the stress melt away Thanksgiving, or the holidays in general, can get pretty crazy and stressful. I love it when everyone pitches in to help and each...
SwirlyThoughts

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Mama Mel Loves...

Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry! - Hi, all! It's been a while since I've posted anything. I don't get much computer time anymore when I'm so busy with the kiddos. But I really wanted to enter ...
THE SEWING DORK

A Little Hiatus - Sorry I've been absent as of late. This rescue puppy fell into my life and she's in need of a little tons of *Stop that! Get off me! Put that steak bac...
Pink and Green Mama

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Mom Inc Daily

- If you haven’t seen me here on Mom Inc Daily chances are I have been under an avalanche of deadlines or on other various social media. Please follow me at ...
Filth Wizardry

Make your own little Loom Band looms - Loom Bands! It's a craze. A big fiddly tweeny fad that just last week swept up my eight and nine year old. I've been reliably informed by friends back in C...
Kelli Nina Perkins

Flowers for My Ears - Finally time to make something for myself. I tried some simple enamel earrings made from pre-cut copper circles. First I punched some holes in the smaller...
homemade by jill

Prairie Rose Pattern Tour - Hello, long, lost blogging friends! I hope some of you are still out there reading, because I've got a whole bunch of recent projects to share with you, s...
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Mother Earth Living - Hello all! As you can probably guess from my 7 month absence from posting, I haven't done a whole lot of crafting lately. However, the beauty (and sometim...
Chalk in My Pocket

DIY Suet Cakes - Note: This post was originally published back in 2011. With the temperatures beginning to dip and lots of migratory birds making their way to winter homes ...
Piccoli Piselli

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{It's A Muegge Life}

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the crafty cpa

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Homemade Serenity

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giddygiddy

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