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A Valentine Bag for Crayons and a Notebook

My girl, like a lot of kids, loves to color. I like to keep some crayons and paper in my purse for restaurants and other situations where waiting might be involved. But I wanted something a little nicer than a zip bag full of crayons. Thanks to Pinterest (of course!) …

Tutu Tutorial

Sarah White January 10, 2012 Baby / Crafts / Holidays / KidsLeave a comment

It says something about my age that every time I’ve thought about writing this post (which has been a bunch of times, since I’ve been meaning to do it since last Halloween, as in 2010) I get the song “Sussudio” by Phil Collins stuck in my head (welcome back, 1985!). …

Jingle Bells and Pipe Cleaners

Sarah White December 22, 2011 Crafts / Holidays / Kid Crafts and ActivitiesLeave a comment

In all the thinking about dress up clothes and fun stuff for the Bit to play with that I’ve been doing lately, I’ve had on my list to make her some kind of bracelet involving jingle bells. I have quite the stash of little bells because I wanted a couple …

A Super-Quick Gift for Teachers and Beyond

Sarah White December 21, 2011 Crafts / Holidays / PinterestLeave a comment

I spent a lot of the day yesterday working on gifts for the lovely people at Anna’s preschool. She has done so well the past few months, and they work so hard, so they deserved some good homemade treats. The purple things are my knit hearts, which are kind of …

Halloween Craftiness, Part Two: The Costume

Sarah White November 4, 2011 Baby / Holidays / Kid Crafts and Activities / Kids / SewingLeave a comment

Every year of my daughter’s life I’ve made some part of her costume. The first year she didn’t really have a costume, because she was seven weeks out of the NICU (and eight weeks out of me) so we weren’t exactly leaving the house. But she did have a Halloween-themed …

Halloween Craftiness, Part One: Pumpkins!

Sarah White November 1, 2011 Crafts / Holidays / Kid Crafts and Activities / PaintingLeave a comment

Somehow I didn’t manage to get any of our Halloween crafty goodness blogged while it was still before Halloween, so I’m just putting this here for the record and will try to bring it up again next year before the actual holiday in question. (The reason behind the lack of …