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Year: 2012

  • Quick painting project

    I found this link via Pinterest, and thought it sounded fun. I’ve used watercolor masks, but rubber cement was a quick and easy alternative. When I was up in Alaska I drove Tuesday and I out in the snow one day, and of course got lost. I ended up at a Michael’s though so it wasn’t all bad 🙂 I decided to pick up cheap watercolors, some watercolor paper, and the rubber cement. I tried to let Tuesday dribble the cement, but it wasn’t that easy for her, so I did most of it. I’ll admit…

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  • Be mine

    Tuesday, Bj and I got out the glitter baby! We assisted our glue loving daughter in her Valentine’s making. It was pretty dang cute. (side note; so glad I stocked up on eight cent bottles of glitter glue this summer!). She had us write cute things inside. One of them, “star, I love you.” to a boy named Ewan. So random. Or “you’re sweet, smiley face.” We were trying not to blatantly laugh at her, but it was hard. I mean the cute! I let Tuesday pick out some shapes and we put a sheet of…

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  • (not so) Clean Mud

    I have pinned so many great activities on my Montessori and Pre-school board. I decided to pick out a few ideas to take with me up to Alaska. When we were up there five months ago the girls got at each other a bit and I wanted to have some things ready to go. Luckily they played better this time, but activities were still handy. I found this and this a while ago, and thought, “clean mud, awesome!” Ok, it was awesome, but to be fair, it’s not that clean of a project! First of all,…

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