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  • 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 this wasn’t a huge…

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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 pink vinyl through my…

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  • Halloween (SUGAR!!!!)

    This was Tuesday’s first real Halloween. I mean she got it. When I told her earlier in the week that we would go around knock on people’s doors and they would give her candy she said, “WHAT?” It was awesome. We did a fun craft yesterday I wanted to mention. I cut out pumpkins and face shapes from the silhouette and let her go to town with them: I was very inspired by this blog post. Tuesday was very proud of her creations! Tuesday had been saying she wanted to be “candy” when I asked her earlier in the month.…

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