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For my niece’s second birthday, we decided to get her a fairy princess costume, which was on her list. I was shocked at the price and quality of what was available in the stores and so set out to see what I could sew. I found a great plan for a tutu skirt at Make . . . → Read More: Sewing Saturday #1 – Fairy Princess Dress Up Costume My mother-in-law requested a spa towel wrap for Christmas. I was unable to find one, (why do I wait until the 23rd of December to do my Christmas shopping?) so I dug out my sewing disaster room and let my dormant creativity surface. This is the result: Here’s a quick, very rough tutorial. I . . . → Read More: Spa Towel Wrap Tutorial Our Going Green activity for this week was an afternoon of recycling our Christmas cards. We cut and glued and cut and glued and cut and glued. Did I mention that we cut and glued? The results are a house of Thank-You and Thinking of You cards for up-coming occasions! We didn’t do anything fancy . . . → Read More: House of Cards Today we made our annual gingerbread houses. We have the quaint little cottage of the LittlestPage nestled beside Page2′s ocean lighthouse. And Page1′s peaceful Swiss chalet sitting neutrally between the rival castles of Page 3 and 4. Tomorrow the wholesale massacre begins! . . . → Read More: Walking in a Winter Wonderland I have always been a granola-crunching, paper-recycling, environmental-worrying, semi-activist. Though there are seven of us in our home, we put out less than one can of garbage each week. (It should go down even more when I start composting in the spring.) We also put out five or six blue bins of recycling. We shop . . . → Read More: Going Green |
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