The Boy purchased some dog harnesses that were marked X-SMALL for puppies and Toy dogs. It turned out that the puppies are more like XX-SMALL. The problem was that the store didn’t sell any XX-SMALL harnesses. There is a good chance that I’ll be taking them to their first vet visit and I was a [...]

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Billie stopped over yesterday afternoon and we did a quick holiday project. These sparkly balls are even prettier in person and really pretty easy to make. You take a clear glass ball and remove the cap. Then you squirt in some dye ink and add a small splash of water. I’m not giving you amounts [...]

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I’m going to tell you how to make a quick and easy mini book from 3 X 5 index cards. It’s so ridiculously easy that I should be embarrassed about devoting an entire post to this project. But I’m not, embarrassed that is, because I’ve been hard up for posts lately and this beats the [...]

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This is the easiest way to make the Neverending Card that I know. It does give you a few extra score lines that you don’t really need but it makes learning the card a lot simpler so I think it is a good trade off for your first attempt. At the end I’ll point out [...]

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I’ve known for quite some time that acrylic medium can be used to make image transfers but my mind never took this to the next logical step… acrylic paint. Recently I was poking around YouTube and found this video of Claudine Hellmuth using Ranger’s paints as a transfer medium. It was another of my “DUH!” [...]

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Suzanne at Mom to 2 Boys has made an adorable ATC with a music theme. She is so clever! Wait till you see how she made the record player.

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