August 2009

This is for my wonderful, smart, pretty, sweet, giving and
fun Sister in-law, Monica. (Did I mention she reads my site?!)
It measures about 2 feet long so it should hold a ton of bags.

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Sometimes to keep from crying over messes
like this you just have to laugh!

And when your 4 year old wants to take up a hobby like this
you just have to chuckle and embrace it.

And while I wonder how I can fill and run a dishwasher twice in a 12 hour
period & vacuum the same area so many times in the same day to
lose count… I find things to make me laugh.
And since my hubby isn’t home to crack jokes and keep me going,
tonight in the wee hour, I seek quirky little funny gadgets such as these:

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Germany has a sweet tradition to celebrate a child’s first day of school.
Parents give their child a Schultüte, a giant paper cone filled with
school supplies and small gifts. It is given to children to make this
anxiously awaited first day of school a little bit sweeter.

Micah’s consisted of
markers, color pencils, transformer folder,
a sucker, tickets which will be used to earn prizes throughout
the year, glue sticks, Spongebob teeth-brushing gear and aside it
his new, very cool and very him, Lego Backpack.
(found at eBags.com)

As long as I can remember I’ve told him,
“Use good manners. Make good choices.”

Hope it sticks. You’ll do great little man..

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I thought I’d try my hand at producing a video…
It was fun (and a bit frustrating at times) figuring out all the
options, but more importantly I’ve learned before inserting
captions (getting the timing and positions just right) music and
title pages, do the video editing first. I wanted to speed up about
30 seconds of this – which may not seem like a lot but if you watch in
it’s entirety you would probably agree. Anyway, I hope to do
an actual tutorial of another project soon.
Hope you’ll join me.

Supplies:
* Locker Hook
* 1 inch strips of fabric, yarn, ribbon,
lace etc. cut to the length you prefer
* Canvas – cut any size or shape you want
for your project. I went with a book cover for
a standard composition book.
* String or yarn
* Darning needle

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