August 2015
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, a little international get together of talented crafters from around the world! Last week’s party was full of great projects as always, and it is such a pleasure to present the features to you here; Fantastic egg carton flowers from pysselbolaget (Sweden) and a quilted trivet tutorial from my poppet…
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Make Yarn From Your Old Sheets
Summer is coming to an end, and while I didn't have a chance to actually crochet or knit with rags, as I have in past years, I did spend some time making yarn from old sheets and pillowcases, so now I have some supplies on hand! I have showed you examples of my rag balls…
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Watercolor Apples In Rainbow Colors For Rosh HaShana Cards!
Once you start painting with watercolors, it is hard to stop, so I thought I'd practice trying to paint loosely with this idea for a sweet card for Rosh HaShana — tiny watercolors in rainbow colors do look cute, and you certainly don't have to be perfect, in fact the less perfect the better, I'm…
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Watercolor Fruit Portraits Are So Much Fun To Paint!
Isn't this watercolor strawberry portrait just the greatest? While I though at the time that she wasn't really putting her mind to this little painting session, in the end her unstudied strawberry turned out to be the best of all. Isn't it great when your kids out do you? You'll Need: watercolor paper watercolors, palette…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! With the heat of summer still in full force, at least here in Northern Israel, crafting indoors sure seems like a great idea right about now! So, since a little inspiration is always a great thing, you’ve in the right spot, as last week’s party was full of great crafts…
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Paper Clip Mini Mobiles That Make Adorable Decorations Anytime!
When we were picking up school supplies last week I just couldn't resist these colorful paperclips as I was quite sure they could be used for something, but what other than a chain? Well, here you have it, my first paper clip craft, mini mobiles made using just paperclips and recycled plastic bottles! I know,…
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Healthier Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies With Coconut
Lets face it, life is just much better when cookies are involved. And of course if you happen to live amongst people who are not anywhere near as health minded as you are, then depriving your kids will very likely backfire in the end. Sooooooo, do bake some cookies, or better yet, get the kids…
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Miniature Playground Craft For Kids Is So Much Fun!
About six weeks ago I shared with you our miniature swingset made from recyclables, and right after that two of my kids actually were inspired to make some more miniature equipment for our little playground that is just right for playmobil people. Well two great additions to the initial playground have been hanging out waiting…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Love the colors in these simple tied wooden bead necklaces from little treasures (Macedonia) and crazy about this paper-pieced hexagon patchwork pillow from pillar box blue (United Kingdom.) Oh and by the way, for those of you who like me did not know what a pillar box is, well it is the traditional mail drop…
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Spelt Oat Crackers With Sesame and Flax Seed, And Shooting On Manual Mode
I have always wanted to try making some healthy crackers, so when my daughter came across a recipe she wanted to try, I of course whole heartedly encouraged her. The first try didn't work as this recipe which is batter must be poured as thinly as possible in order to work with the specified baking…
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Milk Carton Sailboat Or A Milk Carton Pirates Schooner?
This milk carton sailboat or rather milk carton schooner was so hard to photograph as the minute I placed it into the pool it started sailing off into the wild blue yonder! That means that if you get a bunch of kids together to make milk carton sailboats they really could have races, how fun…
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A Crocheted Bobble Stitch Heart Potholder That Will Not Be A Potholder!
With all the time and energy spent on keeping my active boys happy during their brief summer vacation, you can well understand that at last I decided to take some time for myself and crochet this bobble stitch heart potholder based on the lovely pattern that you can see on sew simmer and stir. After…