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Year in Review – Best Crafts of 2009
Good Morning. As I looked back through some of the creative projects we took on this year, it was great to check out how much fun we had learning about and discovering nature through creativity. There was lots of painting and gluing for sure. But, I’m wondering which project you all liked the best this [...]
Craft Tutorial – The Perpetual Calendar (Giveaway)
Editor’s Note: Good Morning. As we make our way toward the new year, my brain starts to shift toward getting organized. Crafting goddess Vanessa Falle is here this morning with a great perpetual calendar project that looks pretty, is simple to do and makes that transition into 2010 a bit easier. Enjoy!
This is the [...]
Homemade Holidays – Easy Recycled Ornaments
As the holidays begin to descend upon us, the tiny person and I are very seriously focused on learning about traditions, honoring our own and creating some new ones this year.
We’re also working hard at keeping with the whole idea of creating more and consuming less. And that has lead to great projects in the last [...]
Crafts – Handmade Paper Pinecone
Editor’s Note: This morning we have paper goddess Vanessa Falle on site creating some fabulously festive handmade paper pinecones. Get crafty:
I don’t know about you, but the holidays around our house wouldn’t be complete without a few new kid-made ornaments with which to decorate our already overburdened Christmas tree. I love how in my own collection, [...]
Retro Saturday – Natural Nature Journals
OK, I concede. I’m EX-HAUSTED. There’s this great delusion in my head that if I just keep going my energy won’t realize that it has been non-existant since July of 2005:)
Anyway, I logged 13 hours of sleep last night (about 3 times my normal) and the price was no e-mails answered, no posts written, no [...]
Family Craft – Paper Robots
Another snowy morning in the Valley means another day at the craft table for us. The cold and our daughter have no issues. As for me, I prefer a cozy blanket and a cup of tea (actually, back to coffee) right now – and she’s currently very accommodating.
When we got back from Victoria, she immediately [...]
Family Craft – Waldorf-inspired Winter Birds
I am a bit of a Christmas scrooge when it comes to taking down the decorations. The pile of pine needles on the floor and the clutter from the holidays send my brain into crazy mode and generally everything comes down within 24 hours of the big day.
This year was just the same, and we [...]
The Best of A Crafty 2008
I never really thought of myself as a crafty sort of gal. Seriously, I have long lived with the crafty curse, trying many a Martha-centric project and failing in expensive, ugly sorts of ways.
I very much admit that my mom got the short end of the stick when it came to these sorts of projects [...]
Paper or Plastic? Cloth Bags are the Only Eco Option
Editor’s Note: 2009 in the Comox Valley is, when it comes to basic steps for greening your daily lives, poised to be the year of the reusable bag.
As the Comox Valley Chamber continues to gear up with its bag-less Comox Valley initiative (local businesses are being asked to only offer reusable bag options starting this [...]
Guest Craft Tutorial – Stamping 101
Editor’s Note: I am taking a few days off here so we’ve got a couple of guest writers this week including energetic Stampin’ Up demonstrator Susan Spyker who is here today to give us all a lesson in how to fine tune our stamping skills.
This tutorial on how to get a perfect stamp every time [...]
Holiday Crafts – Old Skool Snow Flakes
When I was a kid, scissors were the coolest thing ever. I would, literally, spend hours during the holidays cutting out snowflake after snowflake in an effort to coat every inch of window space in our house with the white stuff.
Growing up in the Rocky Mountains, snow for the holidays was never an issue. But, [...]
Flying Bat Puppets
Ugh. One very sick monster decided to visit our house last night, passing by everyone else and gifting his goo to me and me alone. It is remarkable how unwell a person can feel in the span of a couple of hours. So, here I am at 8:30 a.m. still making my way through the [...]
The Spooky Family Tree (& Free Craft Gear)
We have been gearing up for Halloween around here for a looooooong time. In fact, I’m quite serious when I say that I am nearly out of ideas for ghoulish holiday creations and am now going to have to dig in to come up with something of which the 3-year-old approves. Seeing that the daily [...]
Whooooo’s There – Paper Owl Door Decor
When I woke up this morning and realized this was the last time I’d ever post on Comox Valley Kids, I had one seriously weepy moment.
Tomorrow morning, most if not all of you will be redirected over to Ourbigearth.com and we will launch our new phase as Our Big Earth-Comox Valley.
I feel like I’m in [...]
Family Traditions – The Gratitude Alphabet
I’m always looking for new ways to celebrate old traditions around our house.
One of those oldies but goodies I remember fondly from childhood is sitting around the Thanksgiving table – staring down my brother for the rights to be the first one to dig into the fresh perogis – taking turns telling everyone what we [...]
3D Pumpkins, Witches, Bats & Spookiness
So, I completely cop to loving Halloween.
Other holidays, they’re fun.
But Halloween, even minus the stat holiday, is hilarious and weird and creative and outrageous – which ranks it right up there in my bizarre book. Any chance to get dressed up…
While the candy is all well and good – and the pumpkins rock – I [...]
Shadow Lanterns with Repurposed Jars
The tiny person totally digs shadows these days.
She follows hers around, has lengthy conversations with them on the walk to library, thinks that our bedtime routine is nowhere near complete until a round of shadow making commences.
She’s also right into the whole spooky Halloween tale universe – insisting that Eve Bunting’s “Scary, Scary Halloween” and [...]
The Farm – Paper Quilt Making
It seems that all good things (like Summer) must come to an end – and our time with Popsicle out at the Filberg’s Hands-On Farm officially wraps up this Sunday.
We have totally loved spending the Summer getting to know this feisty friend who greets us at the barnyard door and nudges us into hugs and [...]
Handmade Paper Bracelets
Our daughter isn’t generally what you’d think of as traditionally girlie.
She serves tea to her monsters while having a growling competition with them, has a distinct aversion to a life that doesn’t involve dirt, thinks dolls are silly (she prefers the “human kind” of babies) and is spending next week learning the ins and outs [...]
Homemade Matching Games
Our daughter loves to match.
You wouldn’t guess it from her willingness to throw outrageous outfits together on a whim (although, they are amazingly colour coordinated).
But, she is methodical about discovering how things go together in a pattern, texture and colour sort of way.
She’ll spend literally hours making piles of buttons, shells, ribbon, anything she can [...]
Preschool Crafts – Frog Hats
It’s that time when early morning or evening walks are filled with the white noise of unending croaking.
When tadpoles turn marshes and backyard ponds into a black mass of squiggling tails.
Frogs are so crazy cool…and there are so many around the Valley it’s not even funny.
They seem to be following us around, too.
A friend and [...]
Recycled Easter Crafts
Today’s comment challenge: What is your favourite part of Easter? What events do you try to hit or traditions do you have? Bonus points for craft and food ideas:) I’ve got a Super Scrapbooking Kit for one random commenter.
There are times, on those days when I have to fight through the gigantic pile of [...]
Homemade Valentines for Kids
Valentines Day is such a sweet treat to burst through the lingering gray of February.
These days of intermittent rain and chill make us wonder if it’s truly time to start spending most of our days outside again – or plan another big whack of indoor fun.
I’m halfway there, plugging away at getting the back porch [...]
Family Crafts – Making Spring Scenes
I am of the mind that it is time to will the cold away.
While at least mildly unrealistic as February dawns on us, I’m all too willing to perpetuate my delusions of warm sunshine, crocus and tulips pushing their heads up through the still-frozen front garden – in the form of construction paper and cut [...]
Family Crafts – Spring Paper Flowers
If your house is anything like mine in January, we all are in serious need of a Spring-like pick-me-up.
Since it’s not quite time to bust out the garden hoe, your best bet for injecting some Spring spirit into your lives is to get crafting.
We found a fun Spring flower craft in, of all places, National [...]
Family Craft – Pop-Up Thank You Cards
Before the husband and I took off for some time on our own this week I knew there was one thing the tiny person and I had to finish – the thank you cards from all of the great holiday gifts that showed up at our door this year.
If there’s one thing I am religious [...]
New Year’s Eve Crowns
New Year’s Eve is one tricky holiday to get the family involved with.
Most of the long-standing traditions of the event portion of it revolve around activities not meant for kiddos, and generally the big project for this day is finding a baby sitter that doesn’t mind an extra late night.
But, around our house, the festivities [...]
Holiday Mini Photo Books
While I realize most people aren’t generally as photo junkie-ish as I am (I take the camera to the grocery store…I know, it’s an issue), everyone always seems to have a giant pile of snapshots shoved in a drawer or in a computer file somewhere that needs pulling together.
With families living all over the globe [...]
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