Discovering new Blogs

Discovering new Blogs is always so exciting – it is like entering the new Universe full of feelings, ideas, thoughts and points of view, and thanks to www.swap-bot.com, and Blog Swap “Blog me up baby” makes it possible for many of us.

I’ve had a pleasure of participating in a similar swap recently (I am a Blogger Follow Me), where I’ve met lots of interesting people, and now for the second time I already know what to expect.

I am about to have the most wonderful evening, which I blocked to myself, and dive into the wonderful number of Blogs that I have lined up

Ready, set, go!

Sincerely,

Playing Pirates or Our Friday Songs

Ahoy, everyone!

What can be better than playing Pirates on a rainy day?

But today we are not only playing Pirates, but we are doing a multicultural research on Pirates and their Songs on YouTube. It's a lot of fun, to see and hear Pirates singing in different languages.

English

Spanish

French

German

English (Backwards)

Yo Ho Ho and Have a great weekend

Sincerely,

Playing with Fire

On my favorite web site Cut Out + Keep" I found this beautiful tutorial on how to make chiffon flowers.

I didn't have chiffon but I've decided to try out different fabrics and see how it works. This is so easy and so addictive - please, be careful :)

You want to make more

more

and more.....

I already made few flower barrettes for my daughter. Here she is - modelling.

(You can still see some pizza marks on her face).

What do I do with the rest of the flowers? Should I have my first giveaway called "Just Because"? Would you like to receive a pretty silk flower as a lucky winner? Let me know.

I am very grateful for all my followers and that would be the least that I can do.

Sincerely,

Our Weekend Trip

We went to the lake last Sunday and it's been the most unplanned and spontaneous trip that I've ever had, but you know what sometimes unplanned and spontaneous is good. It's a little bit unusual for me to say, because a person who is always on time, never skips or forgets an appointment and unplanned trip don't go together, right? WRONG!

I've had an amazing time. The weather was nice,

the lake was cool,

the chipmunks were everywhere,

we saw a very interesting bird ( I need to do my research on what it's called)

and we left with 2 baskets full of delicious wild mushrooms.

What can be better? I started to think that may be some of our stress and problems in life are in our desire to plan and schedule everything and then follow that precisely....

Well, in my organizer from now on there is one phrase written across: Hurray to unplanned!

Lacing Your Way into 3D

My last post on shoe lacing made me think of more ideas on where else this technique could be used besides shoes ....

Here is an idea: recycling old children books.

I think we all know these series.

Well, let's do hole punching and lacing again but a little bit more this time.

Where will it take us?

I think this new storage container will find a good use around the house.

What will be your lacing creation?

Have fun!

Sincerely,

Shoe Lacing - or The Most Simple Toy

We are learning some shoe lacing technique with my 3 year old. May be she is too young to master that skill and besides, all her shoes are having Velcro strips, but nevertheless!

I my mind I've had a design on how the shoe lacing toy should look like with different colors, magazine cut outs and etc. but it never materialized. I guess some things are meant to be simple.

I've started with simple cardboard piece with the size comfortable enough to hold in little hands.

Using simple hole puncher - I've made two rows of holes.

Then I run a long shoe string through to try on and then my daughter took over.

This is her first attempt to do lacing on her own.

It is amazing but this simple toy kept her concentrated for 40 minutes. She was doing it over and over.

By the way, I went on line to look similar toys that are teaching lacing technique and they are all around $14.00. Well, we definitely score - no money spend(again)!

Sincerely,

Pierrot - My New Spoon Doll

Please, meet my favorite character! He is a "romantic with the temperament of the tormented artist, a stoic who hid his pain from others except for perhaps a single teardrop..." (Gwen Bruno)

Pierrot (pronounce /pjεro/ ) character in French pantomime

His face painted white

His baggy white clothes are hand-me-downs and too big for him, sometimes even with sleeves too long for his hands to be visible.

Loose tunic with big buttons has pocket to keep a variety of small objects, usually only of sentimental value.

May be a scroll with romantic poem to Columbine?

Or, by the way, that's how Pierrot looked before:)

Sincerely,

Note: If you like to read more about this character, please follow this link