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Rosh HaShana Card Craft For Kids
Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year is in just one week, so while we're still recovering from a month away from home, the holiday isn't going to wait for us. It's time to get in a little crafting to build the anticipation for this wonderful two day holiday that this year is back to back…
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A Visit To Point Lobos State Reserve, Monterey, California
The Point Lobos State Reserve, just 3 miles south of the city of Carmel in Northern California is a truly a jewel, and well worth the three or so hour drive south if you will be visiting the San Francisco Bay Area. We combined our overnighter with a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, a special little crafty get together between talented crafters literally from around the world. Last week there were contributors from: The United States, The United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Turkey, Macedonia, Israel, Australia, and South Africa. With so many wonderful projects it’s always so hard to choose…
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A Climb Up The Enchanting Filbert Steps On Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
At long last I had a chance to re-visit one of my very favorite places, the Filbert Steps, on Telegraph Hill in my beloved San Francisco. I always had a feeling that I had left my heart on these steps, and yes indeed I have reconfirmed this sentiment. Best of all, I was so very…
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Recycled Doodle Patterned Cannisters….For Rosh HaShana Gift Packaging!
With the Jewish New Year just around the corner, well rather 2 plus weeks, whipping up some little gift containers for gifting New Year's treats is a great little craft to think about right about now. I love using recycled food containers to make gift packaging and while in the United States we bought some…
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Mosaic Inspiration From A Community Project On Grand Avenue, Oakland
While away from you all during the past month, I had the great pleasure of getting to know downtown Oakland, California, a city with which I was fairly familar but never really got to know as I did during our three weeks of walking and talking public transportation around this interesting city. One of the…
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Welcome Back To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome back to Craft Schooling Sunday dear crafty friends from around the world! I’ll let you in on a little secret….I was actually on vacation for the past month with computer access for only short periods that allowed for checking and deleting emails, but that was about it! I hadn’t really planned on taking a…
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Baking With Kids: Babka, My Favorite!
As one of the baked items that my daughter learned to make this summer in a baking class, babka, the classic Jewish yeast cake was one of our favorites! So while I'm not providing you with a recipe here, you can certainly find a good one online or better yet from a babka balabusta, which…
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Crocheted Giant Granny Square Baby Blanket Pattern
Last week I shared with you my crocheted giant granny baby blanket, and now I'm going to give you what is hopefully enough details so that you can make one too! The blanket is made of four giant granny squares, using Pattern A and Pattern B, which are just color variations of the same design.…
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Drawing Exercise For Kids: Use Small Boxes To Create A City
Here's a fantastic drawing craft that's also a recycling craft — drawing on the un-printed side (the inside) of small medicine and food packaging to create a cityscape of buildings. The results of my seven year old's efforts were so amazing that I haven't decided if I want to frame them as is, or assemble…
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Crocheted T-Shirt Yarn Granny Square Rug With 12 Squares
Thanks to the prolific crocheter Anneke of South Africa, I have yet another crocheted t-shirt yarn rug to share with you! I don't have a pattern for this one, but as you can see, you really can crochet just about any granny square pattern with t-shirt yarn and the results are just fabulous. Three colors…
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Moroccan Style Hot Peppers!
Moroccan style hot peppers are quite simple to prepare and a perfect way to introduce a little something spicy into your repetoire! And of course if you're expecting guests who might be used to eating spicy food (and you're not) so this is a great way to incorporate their desire for something hot, and I…
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Drawing Exercise For Kids: Draw Your House On A Box
Here's a great drawing craft for kids that is so much fun, you might even want to frame the results. I few months ago, I had a long piece of cardboard on hand and decided to cut off the two top corners and give it to my seven year old to draw on. It occurred…
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Drawing Exercise For Kids: Stained Glass
We have been doing lots of crafts involving drawing lately to get our drawing skills up to speed, and drawing stained glass likenesses is a fun way to get some variety into your kid's drawing exercises. You could make large involved stained glass drawings or little ones like ours, and display them on a window…
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Crocheted Giant Granny Square Baby Blanket Or Coverlet
Here's a simple granny square baby blanket (or any size blanket) that you can make any size, and in your favorite colors. I made this one as a scrap buster, and managed to find yarn in all the favorite colors of the baby's mom. And since there are only four squares in this one, the…
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Craft Schooling Sunday Has Gone Fishing!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Craft Schooling Sunday is taking a little summer break, and will be back as soon as I figure out how to fit all the organizing that the party requires into a suddenly very busy summer schedule packed with good things. So hang on to those projects and I'll keep…
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Drawing Exercise For Kids: A Monster In A Recyled Box!
Here's a fun drawing craft that's fun and creative with very personal results — I'll call it monster in a box, though it could certainly be an animal or creature of any kind. We used a recycled box, drew the monster's head on the top portion and then used the bottom portion as the monster's…
