Unplug Your Kids

The theme for this week’s Unplugged Project is wrapping paper. I am hoping to learn lots of neat new ways to recycle used holiday paper.
With all our indoor time due to the terrible icy, snowstorms we had all week, you’d think we’d have found an opportunity to do our project on time. But somehow we [...]

As a child, I remember Christmas being so exciting that I could hardly sleep the night before. We’d have a tree, Christmas stockings and yummy turkey. My Dad would always design a “trail” for me - a treasure hunt with clues - to lead me to my biggest present. Dessert was always my mother’s homemade [...]

Here I am, better late than never! After a very busy day of cooking yesterday in preparation for last night’s winter solstice get-together with friends, I am finally able to post our Weekly Unplugged Project.
The theme this week is Dark/Light, in honor of the solstice (be it winter or summer depending on your hemisphere).
We made [...]

I have been feeling very un-bloggy lately, hence my silence. Do I really have anything interesting to say? Does anyone care? Is it worth my precious time writing? Hmmm…. Big questions.
So please excuse my absence, but let me talk now about our Christmas tree. It is ugly, yet beautiful. Humble, yet profound.
First a bit of [...]

The theme for this week’s Unplugged Project was curly.
We didn’t get to it this week and instead, put up our Christmas tree and such. The weather today was kind of cold, snowy and windy though. Very much a curl up in front of the fire with a good book day. Does that [...]

I promised an update on these candles (that we made out of old crayon bits) once we had tried burning them, so here it is!
Actually I had promised it the following day, but - oops…didn’t quite get to it until now, nearly two months later. Oh well, never let it be said that I blog [...]