Old McDonald Had A Puppet

I have been waiting until I finished to share this project with you and today is the day!! Since January I have been working on some animal puppets to use in my story times!  They didn’t take so long because they were especially difficult, it was more that I had other things going on, but they…

Homemade Pay It Forward 2012 – #3: Harry Potter Presents

So this post was a very long time coming…the first version of the gift got lost in the mail, but finally the second edition made it! Last May my roommate and I hosted a Harry Potter party.  (See the post here.)  It was awesome (if I do say so myself) and everyone got a gift…

Three Easy Tutorials

So…yesterday I talked about the Seven Days of Celebration presents I gave to my sister, Spaulding and another friend.  Well, among their small gifts were a few homemade items.  I thought I’d share three of those with you today, because they are too easy and fun to keep to myself. First: Edible Glitter! Ok, so it is…

Seven Days of Celebration

A while back I saw this image/link on Pinterest from The Dating Divas. The original post called it Seven Days of Love.  She gave it to her husband so he would have a little extra reminder of how much she loved him everyday for a week.  She had slips of paper with simple messages, quotes,…

Two Hearts of Love for The Doctor

I have a new t-shirt and I am pretty excited about it!  The best part…it is my own creation! Ok…so I was going to do a full tutorial, but I am really horrible at remembering to take pictures.  I really need to work on that.  But until I develop better tutelage habits…here is a less than full…

Homemade Pay It Forward 2012 – #2: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

First of all…Happy Independence Day to all my American readers and Happy Normal Wednesday the 4th to the rest of the world. . Now…On to some crafting…The second Homemade Pay It Forward gift went to my friend Maggie.  She was in the Library Science program with me and we had every children and young adult class together.…

Homemade Pay It Forward 2012 – #1: Family, Hearts, and the Postal System

In January, I posted on my Facebook wall. Five people commented and I promptly forgot all about it.  In all fairness…I was just a tad busy finishing up my last semester of grad school. At the beginning of May I remembered I had some crafting to do, so I started working.  I finished two of…