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I wrote a letter to a friend today and printed off a stack of recent photos to send along with it. And because I don't have enough to do as it is, I thought, "hey, these already very cute pictures would be elevated to a whole new level of cute if only they were presented in a more decorative way." And away I went cutting paper and ribbons, punching holes and digging around drawers for the

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So, last week we had VBS from 9a to noon and Cub Scout Twilight Camp from 2p to 8:30p every day. I would like to state for the record: NEVER AGAIN will we combine any other anything with Twilight Camp week. Amen.At camp Lynn was a walking den leader and I was a session leader. Caleb went to tot lot again this year and got to do swaps with all his little buddies there. Logan got to do all

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So, I have this boy, my first born child, and he is smart (he completed 2nd grade with straight A's - go Logan!!) and handsome and helpful and, sometimes, a handful. I love him to pieces! In a few minutes he'll be eight years old. EIGHT! I don't know where the time goes...Happy Birthday, sweet boy! xo

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I bought some fabric a couple weeks ago with the intention of making a couple as-yet-undecided things for Molly and a bag for me. When the order arrived I was absolutely thrilled! The colors of the fabrics were so much nicer in person. As I was preparing to wash everything I noticed they sent more than the half yard of the Echino Grassy Plain I had ordered...a fortunate oversight in my favor.

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For the pièce de résistance of my homeroom mothering career I decided to do a backyard (or kitchen) scientist theme. I gathered up supplies for a handful of kitchen science experiments we've all done over the years and then put together little manuals for the kids to take home with them should they want to recreate any of the awesomeness.You can make one of your very own by printing experiments

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Cheryl said, "I love the necklace especially!" A serendipitous outcome! I love it!Ariane said, "Wow! Very cute earrings and necklaces! I love them! Sorry to hear you missed the Sew Mama Sew deadline, but your friend posted that you were having a giveaway - so for those of who actually read the blogs, we can find your giveaway Thanks for the chance to win!" Thanks for clicking over!Ladies,

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I missed the announcement and subsequent registration deadline for Sew, Mama, Sew's May Giveaway Day, but I do love a giveaway so I'm just going to pretend I had my ducks in a row and play along anyway. This time around they set up parameters for a more uniform event (an excellent idea, I might add) - and according to those parameters this giveaway will remain open until midnight, CST, on May

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Way back in March I started working on a pattern for my little hummingbird mobile and a pattern/tutorial for the hummingbird nightlight. Well, instructions still need to be written for the mobile. It's a very simple project to do, but to put all of the steps into words that make sense and are easy to follow for anyone outside of my own head is a whip. And in case you haven't heard, I like to

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Friday night we (Lynn's dad and sister, Lynn and I) took the boys to see Star Trek. Before we headed out, Lynn got his craft on and spiffed up a shirt in homage to Mr. Spock. He was bummed for not having any ears to complete the ensemble. I am definitely going to embroider a shirt for him and I am also going to attempt a pair of felt or felted ears for him. I would say I'll shoot for Father's

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Caleb got a world atlas for his birthday last year from Aunt Katie and Uncle Aaron. We have flipped through that book a thousand times pointing out where we've lived, where we've visited, where family members live and have visited. In the last few months my sister and her husband have traveled to Germany, Amsterdam, Switzerland and Paris on two different trips. My brother went to Italy at the

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and Lord knows there is plenty of work to be done around the house in anticipation of house guests, but there is also embroidery and lampworking and metalsmithing and enameling to be done as well. And well, by now you all know where my priorities lie (lay?). It is Teacher Appreciation week here at the Lyons' Den and with everything on our household agenda it sort of fell by the wayside yesterday

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Happy Mother's Day!!

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After the boys were at school and we were finished with our morning errands, Molly and I returned home for lunch and a nap. With lunch out of the way, I had a picture disc to burn for a friend and Twilight Camp stuff to work on as well. I set Molly up on her computer (Noggin.com, I love you) and went to work on my own. I knew she was sitting there next to me, because she was chatting with me

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Another day successfully under our belt. Well, Monopoly and necklaces were swept aside again today for coloring in Clone Wars coloring books, playing outside and watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The boys were well behaved today, only a few bickering spells. Molly insisted on wearing panties all day today and managed to pee everywhere but in the toilet. For the

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And we survived another day! Today was not as happy go lucky as yesterday, but it still wasn't horrible. We didn't get necklaces strung or Monopoly played because I had a metric ton of cub scout Twilight Camp stuff to do, orders to take care of and cleaning to do. The kids were left to their own devices until the hey! that's mine! he took my -insert Lego piece/Star Wars character/art supply

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As I was browsing my usual blogs this morning I noticed this neat little addition at the bottom of each post. I love a good suggestion link and these come with pictures too! So with curiosity piqued, I followed the LinkWithin link and picked up a widget for myself. It is beyond easy to set up and I think you should go get one too.Back to business for me...more beads to be made, necklaces to

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I am happy to report we have survived Day One of the Swine Flu Scare School Closure Break (SFSSCB). With the way the boys have been after school the last few weeks I fully anticipated a truly awful day of yelling and screaming and fighting and bickering. Much to my surprise, there was very little of any of that mess. Awesome! Don't get me wrong, we all had our moments today, but for the most

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So the Spring Fling turned out to be really great! From the vendor point of view:the entire event was well organized and well executed.with the exception of how hot it got, the venue was great.traffic was consistent and varied pretty widely (everyone from poverty law attorneys and soccer moms to grandmas and cowboys - fun people watching to be sure).lots of serious lookers as well as serious

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A hat tip to my mom this evening for the link to this vid and to Sonya too...I know a while back she made mention of Lisa's sweet ass, full-of-fibery-knitty-stitchy-goodness, website.And now that share time is over, it's back to the salt mines for me! So you know what I've been working on the last week:

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I spent the morning sawing, drilling and soldering metal and the afternoon enameling everything I could get my hands on. These little earrings were my first attempt at "drawing" with the enameling powders. I added the legs and eyes with an enamel marker after Caleb informed me that they were necessary if the blue blobs were supposed to be birds. I very hesitantly re-fired them to set the

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You know I'm weak sauce went it comes to your cute clothes. Your siren song suckered me into paying full price for this completely adorable shirt. Well, it made me sucker my -easily swayed when it comes to anything for his children- husband into paying full price for that sweet little shirt and to get him to pay full price for kids' clothes is a powerful thing. Plus it doesn't help that you've

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You may remember I have a show coming up very soon. April 25th to be exact. I have lots of things I've been working on as time permits and therefore have lots of half finished things everywhere. Folks, it's tough to get anything done around here with Molly Mc-Gets-Into-Everything-Pants in the house. She is a force to be reckoned with these days - FO SHO.Anyway, my favorite coping mechanism

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Well here it is in all its glory: my completed box for My Little Mochi's Coraline Mystery Box Swap. Before I found a good box I decided I would focus on the hummingbirds in the Other Mother's garden. I loved everything about that garden, even those little bastard snapdragons. I would've loved to have found a simple little wire bird cage to tuck all the goodies into, but simple little wire

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no thanks to a particularly nasty stomach bug the two little ones and myself have been battling off and on since last Tuesday. Molly is still not 100%. Caleb and I are happy to have normal bowel movements back in our repertoires. Lynn and Logan have stomachs of steel. I'm playing fast and furious catch up now on work that fell by the wayside due to the unforeseen massive influx of disgusting

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Congrats go out to Deborah who reminded me about Square Root Day. Molly will be happy to know he won't be moving too far away!

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