Years ago during a planning meeting for our old nature group, one mom talked about her reading about growing pumpkins for a county fair in Farmer Boy and one thing led to another and the result was a Handicraft Fair where our kids could bring the things they make during the year and display and […]
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This is our growing collection of all things made by yarn, hook and needle. The amigurumi are made by me. Totoro and chibi totoro from a couple years ago – we love the movie and visited the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, my mother’s home town, a few years ago. Did you know I’m half Japanese?
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After hours of preparation by busy hands it was finally time for our 2nd Annual Holiday Handicraft Fair! Here are links to our past Handicraft Fairs: Jun 2011Dec 2011May 2012 And here are pictures from our prep and today’s Handicraft Fair:
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The weather has been really fickle. First it’s fall so we pulled out our warm jackets and boots, then it’s back in the 90s squeezing in more beach and pool days, then cold again, then extreme heat – whatever it is, it’s handicraft season as far as I’m concerned 🙂 Here’s a potato chip scarf
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Sometimes in homeschooling, we have to set aside doing school to do school in a different way. Today in Huntington Beach, several Charlotte Mason nature study groups got together for a handicraft fair, a chance to see what other families have been working on and to buy each others’ treasures. Charlotte Mason wrote about the
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The Handcraft Fair we had earlier this year in the Spring worked out so well, we decided to have another one for the Holidays. It turned out to be another great event with so many different creative handcrafts. My son made homemade artisan bread – crispy crunchy crust, and oh, so soft inside. You must
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My latest absorption… Here’s the book that shows you how. If you need additional help, I’m sure YouTube has plenty of tutorials on every stitch in the book. These could be hung on the wall as is or framed and given as gifts, you could make Christmas tree decorations, aprons, add embroidery to a plain
We went to the LA County Fair a couple weeks back and they had the greatest little area called Heritage Square or Heritage something-a-ruther and it was full of handcrafts for the kids. We discovered enough handcrafts there to last the kids through the winter! Here’s a little rag doll made from strips of left
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For sometimes when we wonder, we can make things begin to happen. ~Teacher in The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong Once or twice a year our little nature study group gathers at a coffee shop in the evening without the children to talk and plan through nature study locations, field trips and events
I don’t post recipes here often, but this one is quick, inexpensive, tasty and pretty healthy too. The cabbage, cilantro, lemon, salt & pepper mixture is the kicker – you could add it to any favorite taco recipe to add extra crunch and flavor. I use whatever left over chicken we have or if I’m