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5 Random Things: March 5

Posted by Wendy on March 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

1. We’ve had a 4-day school week for a while now, but Will and I decided that since we took several weeks (I think it was 8 or 9) off after Dragonfly’s birth – I needed time to recover from my c-section, and then it was Christmastime – that we should move back to a 5 day week, at least for a while. Last week was our first week back at that schedule, and it went pretty well. Hopefully it won’t get too overwhelming getting everything prepped for the week over the weekend. That’s why we switched to the 4 day model in the first place.

2. We played tennis today for the first time of the season. It was fun 🙂

3. Knitting is still going really well. After completing two pairs of baby booties, I’ve moved on to a baby cardigan. So far, so good on that, but I’m not to any of the difficult parts yet – sleeves and the yoke. I’ve ordered the double-pointed needles that I’ll need in order to make the sleeves. I’ve got plenty of work to do on the main part of the body before those arrive.

4. Speaking of knitting, Ravelry is my new favorite website. There are so many neat patterns on there! I look forward to trying some of them out as I continue to get better at this craft.

5. Will’s working diligently on his next book (more info on his website). He comes up with most of the ideas and does the drawing, but I do the final lettering on each of his comic strips, which means my fountain pen is getting a good workout these days 🙂 The public library is hosting his book launch party on April 30th, and we’re really excited about that. It should be a great party.

Blessings,

My Decision to Give up Sewing

Posted by Wendy on March 2, 2016 5 Comments

Eight years ago, an acquaintance (one of Will’s former coworkers) gave me a sewing machine for my birthday. It wasn’t new, and it definitely wasn’t fancy. In fact, that first sewing machine didn’t even have a good belt. I used rubber bands to run it. They were constantly making a huge mess as they degraded from spinning around and around, doing a job they were never meant to do. It was always kind of fun (in a not fun kind of way) when one of them snapped. It would fling off into the netherworld (also known as the floor behind my desk) and the machine would stop working. I used that machine a lot. It was my training machine. That first year, I made 7 full-size quilts for Christmas gifts – with very minimal sewing experience. All done on that rubber-band-powered machine.

Then I upgraded the machine. I was tired of dealing with rubber bands, and felt that I was making some progress in the craft, so we bought a $100 Singer from JoAnn’s. That machine served me very well. I made dresses for myself, pajamas, Halloween costumes, and bath robes for the kids, Small Fry’s complete nursery set (diaper bag, changing pads, crib sheet, Boppy pillow cover, and more), and more quilts. But very little of what I made was truly great. It all got the job done, though. And I figured that I would continue to get better.

Four years later, that machine broke. The power switch detached from the supply on the inside. While Singer did provide a 25-year warranty, they didn’t provide any service shops within 8 hours of my location – and none in my state. So we bought another machine instead of fixing that one.

This third machine was a pale comparison to my second one. I didn’t think so at first, but after using it for a long time, I came to realize the truth. It couldn’t do free-motion quilting, which is definitely my favorite way to quilt. It only had one thread guide down near the needle (instead of two like the previous one had had). But in the store, I was just so happy to be getting a machine that would actually turn on that I didn’t pay close enough attention to the individual features and we bought that machine anyway.

I used it for several years despite its shortcomings. After the first few weeks, I was already frustrated with it, but I didn’t want to complain about such an expensive gift purchased out of love from my husband. I put up with the constantly breaking thread. The thread coming loose from the single thread guide (turns out that having two of those is actually necessary) and getting caught around itself. The way the needle would come unthreaded for some unknown, invisible reason. I dealt with it all, because after all, having a bad sewing machine is better than having no sewing machine. Especially for a quilter. Plus, I wasn’t that good at sewing, despite my years of practice. I didn’t “deserve” a better machine.

Fast forward a couple of years, to just a few weeks ago. I was working on finishing up a baby quilt as a gift when the machine pulled one of these stunts. After years of dealing with it (and playing around with giving up the craft for the past several months), I decided that the time was now. I was emotionally ready to move away from sewing. I moved the sewing machine down to the garage and haven’t looked back.

Instead of lamenting over thoughts of “Oh, I really do want to sew something after all,” I’ve thrown my focus into yarn crafts. I designed my own original pattern – the teddy bear skirt I shared last week – and learned to knit. So now I have two options for creating yarn crafts, which I love. And I’ve felt such a peace about my decision. I’m happy with knitting needles or a crochet hook in my hands. It’s a wonderful feeling!

Blessings,

Our Language-Heavy Homeschool

Posted by Wendy on March 1, 2016 2 Comments

The next several weeks mark the annual “Virtual Curriculum Fair” for homeschool bloggers all over the web. This year, it’s being hosted by Laura at Day by Day in Our World, Chareen at Every Bed of Roses, and Kristen at Sunrise to Sunset. This week, the theme is Playing with Words: The Language Arts, and that category covers everything English (spelling, grammar, writing, and more), as well as foreign languages.

Language and writing is super important to our family, so it’s no surprise that Language Arts make up a huge percentage of our homeschool day – and they always have. We don’t neglect the other subjects, but the language stuff is just so diverse that it makes sense that it would take up more time and energy. Here’s how we do it, and what curriculum we’re using to accomplish our goals (as well as some that we love but are the back burner right now for one reason or another).

Links go to my past reviews of mentioned products. From those review posts, you can find links to the actual products from the vendor. Special thanks to the Schoolhouse Review Crew for providing these review products for our family.

Grammar

My absolute favorite grammar program is Fix It! grammar by the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW). It’s a gentle introduction to grammar concepts for children as young as 3rd grade. Children are given one sentence of a longer story per day with the task of identifying words and concepts (nouns, adjectives, verbs, main and dependent clauses, etc) and making corrections (adding proper paragraph breaks, capital letters, ending marks, quotation marks, and more). Then the student copies the sentence correctly into a notebook. There is also vocabulary included in the curriculum.

Spelling

We’ve tried lots of different spelling products over the years: spelling lists, Spelling You See (from Demme Learning), The Phonetic Zoo (from IEW), and currently Logic of English Essentials (which is more than just spelling, but more on that later). We’ve had varying degrees of success with each of these, but our favorites are The Phonetic Zoo and Essentials.

Literature

We adore literature studies in our homeschool! We always read these books together out loud and then do the corresponding studying of the book. We’ve used two Progeny Press studies in the past (Little House in the Big Woods and Tuck Everlasting) as well as worksheets from Super Teacher Worksheets (for Charlotte’s Web). Currently, we’re working through The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe with a study guide from Memoria Press (there will be a review on that in a few weeks).

Writing

This is another subject where we’ve tried a few different things. We used My First Reports from Hewitt Homeschooling, which were a great introduction to writing a couple of years ago. They give students a series of questions on a topic to research and answer, finally compiling everything into a single report. We were also blessed with a copy of Student Writing Intensive from IEW, along with the teacher training that goes along with it, Teaching Writing with Structure and Style. This is a great program but ended up being a bit “much” for us. Currently, we’re using Here to Help Learning, a wonderful video-based writing program that we’re all absolutely loving. With the guidance of Mrs. Mora, the boys are each writing their own six-chapter novel! There will be a review on this program coming up soon, too.

Reading

I’m pretty flexible with my kids when it comes to reading (once they’ve mastered the art, anyway). They have to read something each day. What they read is entirely up to them. Right now, Munchkin (9) is working his way through the Harry Potter series. He’s about halfway through Order of the Phoenix right now. Seahawk (12) is reading The Lord of the Rings (we have a single volume with all three novels), at Will’s urging. Both of these books have really long chapters, so I don’t require a full chapter to be read each day like I used to; now it’s a minimum of 20 minutes.

Foreign Language

We’re plugging away at Rosetta Stone French here. We picked this up on a great sale about a year ago (5 payments of $37 instead of the normal price of $500), and it’s been a real game changer in our learning of the French language.

So that’s what we’re studying in the realm of Language Arts! Make sure to check out one of the other blogs (there’s a linkup on the blogs I linked to up above) for even more ideas!

Blessings,

Building a Strong Faith – One Brick at a Time (Zonderkidz Review)

Posted by Wendy on February 29, 2016 Leave a Comment

We were already familiar with the New International Reader’s Version (NIrV) of the Bible before this one – the Faith Builders Bible from Zonderkidz – was offered for review. The children’s department at our church has been using this translation for years, and we even had a paperback copy of the Bible in this easy-to-read translation at one point. That, combined with my kids’ love of Legos, is how I knew this Bible would be a good fit for Munchkin, who is 9.

This Bible is a hardcover book with the text of the Bible as the main component. What I mean by this is that it’s not a study Bible for kids; there are no “expert’s notes” on the pages. It’s just the Biblical text. Sprinkled throughout are thicker pages with photographs of Bible stories illustrated with Lego bricks, much like you’d find in a “based on a true story” book that has photographs of the real people.

The NIrV is an easy reader’s version. It uses the well-known NIV translation as its base, and then shortens the sentences to make it easier for younger readers to understand. For example, here is John 3:16 in both translations.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (NIV)

God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. Anyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life. (NIrV)

You can see that the text is virtually identical, with only minor differences. The idea is that these shorter sentences make it easier for children to read and understand the Bible, but they’re still reading the Bible rather than a “Bible storybook.” I tend to agree with this assessment. As I mentioned before, we’ve used this translation with our kids for a few years now, and it certainly does help make the text easier for them to grasp.

Seahawk is old enough now to be in the teen group (I can’t believe it!), so he uses a “regular” NIV or ESV Bible (we have both). Therefore, I chose to give this Bible to Munchkin, since he’s still in the kid group. He took an immediate liking to this Bible. From the second he opened the box, he was thrilled. For the past month, he’s taken it pretty much everywhere he goes. One of the opening spreads shows the building blocks with the books of the Bible in order and colored/labeled with the “type” of literature that they are (law, history, poetry, major prophets, and minor prophets for the Old Testament; gospels, church history, letters, and prophecy for the New Testament). Each time we got in the car, the boys worked together with this page to learn the books of the Bible, studying and quizzing each other. Within a week or so, they’d both mastered the list.

They also worked together to “illustrate” the story of Jonah using their own Lego bricks. Seahawk built the fish, and Munchkin designed Jonah. I like that they worked together as a team to refresh themselves on the Biblical account. Using the pictures in this Bible for inspiration, they reread the story on their own and then built the pieces they needed for the image. What a great thing that they were so excited to read the Bible and then design their own picture to go along with it!

Overall, I think this Bible would be a big hit with any child who’s a Lego fan, like my boys are. If you’re concerned about commercialization, then this probably isn’t the right fit for you, though. Despite disclaimers of “This Bible is not authorized, sponsored, endorsed, or licensed by Lego,” there’s no doubt the blocks they’re using for the images. Perhaps the Bible isn’t the best thing to turn into a commercial for products. But if that’s the way you can get your kids to read it, then I think it’s a good stepping stone to a “real” Bible they’ll read and understand in their teen years and beyond.

Blessings,

Picture of the Week: Freshly Knitted Booties

Posted by Wendy on February 26, 2016 Leave a Comment

For my first knitting project (not counting practice swatches), I decided to make Dragonfly a pair of baby booties. The first pattern I tried worked out really well – the booties were super cute – but ended up being a bit too small for him, despite me having made the 6 month size. So I found another one to try, and they seem to fit better 🙂 I gained enough confidence in having successfully completed two pairs of booties that I’m trying my hand at a baby cardigan now. I’ll let you know how it goes!

Blessings,

Using Dice for Arrows… (SimplyFun Review)

Posted by Wendy on February 24, 2016 1 Comment

After having had the pleasure of reviewing a game from SimplyFun during the 2015 year, I was thrilled to be selected to try another of their games out this year.

I’m reviewing Archery Dice, one of four new releases from SimplyFun.

My kids are really into the Middle Ages, so it was neat that both of the games we had to choose from had that time period as their basis. After looking at the website, we (the kids and I) decided that Archery Dice would be more up our alley, so that’s what we applied for (and received). The recommended age for Archery Dice is 7 and up, but Small Fry (age 3) was able to play with us just fine. Inside the box were 12 dice (three each of four colors), four wooden discs upon which to stack your dice, and 16 heavy duty cardboard targets, along with the rules booklet.

The rules of Archery Dice are quite simple. Set the targets out on the table, stack your dice into a stack, and flick them – one at a time – onto the targets. If your die alone is on the target at the end of a round (defined as when all 3 dice from each player have been flicked), you win it. If your opponent also has a die on the target, whoever has the highest number showing wins it. Keep the targets in front of you for one more round – this gives your challengers a chance to steal the target (which they can do by flicking one of their dice onto your target during the next round). If they fail, you get to “bank” the target at the end of the round. Once a target is banked, it’s safe from theft. The first person to bank four targets is the winner.

SimplyFun games are more than just games; they all have a goal of teaching children through play. Archery Dice teaches kids control over their movements (by how hard they flick the dice), how to aim (by where they flick the dice), and strategy (is it better to try for a new target or to try to steal your opponent’s?). I like this about the company. Games for the sake of playing are great, but if you can teach your children at the same time, that’s even better – especially if they don’t realize they’re learning.

The first time we played the game, it was the kids (Seahawk, Munchkin, and Small Fry) and me. We read through the rules together and then just played. I like that there’s very little setup with this game. Give each person a stack of dice and a wooden disc, set the targets out, and you’re ready to play. It’s really convenient not to have to deal with a game board and a lot of little pieces. And because the game is so simple (flicking dice), even small children can play, with help. Small Fry is only 3, but he was able to successfully play this game. He even banked a target or two.

Overall, we really enjoyed playing Archery Dice. It was fun; we laughed a lot during play and had a great time with the game. We’re fortunate to be able to add this game to our arsenal.

Blessings,

Crochet Teddy Bear Skirt (free pattern)

Posted by Wendy on February 22, 2016 4 Comments

I had a bit of a decision making process that I went through a couple of weeks ago regarding my crafting desires. I was in the middle of making a quilt when my sewing machine jammed up and really made me frustrated. I decided then and there (without even finishing that particular quilt) that I was ready to give up sewing. It wasn’t the first time the machine had caused that kind of problem, and I was done.

Combine machine problems with the fact that I’ve never felt that I was that great at sewing (adequate at best; definitely not talented), and I was ready to call it a day, so to speak, with that particular hobby. I decided to focus my creativity on yarn crafts instead.

I knew how to crochet already, and am actually pretty good at that. And after telling Will about my decision, he thought it would beneficial for me to learn to knit so we explored local classes on that hobby (more on what we found in a different post).

I was so at peace with my decision – excited even – that I couldn’t sleep that night. Of course, a 3-month-old baby didn’t help that aspect ;). But even while I was holding Dragonfly while he slept on the couch and I tried to (lying there with my eyes closed), my mind was whirring with excitement and ideas over all the different things I could create now that my focus would be less divided. The one that kept playing out over and over in my head was this one: a teddy bear skirt. I’m not entirely sure why this was the first project I invented considering I have all boys (their teddy bears are also boys – not a girl among them!), but it was. Now that the skirt is completed, it will probably find a home with one of the boys’ girl friends for her bear.

Special thanks to Small Fry for letting his bear, Toby, be the model.

Crochet Teddy Bear Skirt Pattern

Designed for a standard “Build a Bear Workshop” bear

Materials:

Worsted Weight (regular) Yarn (I used Caron Super Soft)
Size H and Size I crochet hook

Abbreviations:

HDC = Half-double crochet
DC = Double crochet
Ch = chain
Sk = skip the specified number of stitches

Directions:

Chain 75 using the Size I hook.
Switch to the H hook. Use this one for the remainder of the pattern. (I find that making my base chain with a larger hook eliminates the arch that is caused when the chain is tighter than the stitches.)
Row 1: Starting in the second chain from the hook, HDC across.
Row 2: Ch 2. Turn. HDC across.
Row 3: Ch 2. Turn. HDC in first two HDC. Ch 2, sk 2. HDC the rest of the way across.
Row 4: Ch 2. Turn. HDC across.
Row 5: Repeat Row 3.
Row 6: Repeat Row 4.
Row 7: Ch 2. Turn. *2 DC in first stitch, DC in next stitch.* Repeat from * around.

Here’s where it gets a little interesting. After you crochet row 7, you’re going to join the last stitch to the first one using a slip stitch. Be careful not to twist the work when you do this; you want a flat skirt. Continue the pattern as follows.

Round 1: Ch 2. *2 DC in first stitch, DC in next two stitches.* Repeat from * around.
Rounds 2-7: DC around.
Tie off. Weave in ends.

When you’re done with the crochet portion, sew buttons onto the yoke of the skirt (the portion created with HDCs) to line up with the buttonholes that were created in Rows 3 and 5. Sew them far enough in that when buttoned, the skirt fits yours (or your child’s) teddy bear.

Please feel free to make this pattern. If you write about it online, please link back to my blog – and leave me a comment so I can see how it turned out for you. Thanks!

Blessings,

This post is part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew’s roundup on Crafts. That post will go live on Friday, March 4th, 2016.

Five Random Things: Knitting, Pneumonia, and other things

Posted by Wendy on February 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

1. For Valentine’s Day, Will sent me to a knitting class. I already knew how to crochet (obviously), but when I decided to give up sewing (more on that decision next week), we decided together that learning to knit would be a good thing for me. So I did. I’ve been knitting for 5 days now, and while I’m not that great yet, I have full confidence that I’ll get even better with time. Even after just five days, I’m already better at knitting than I was after years of crochet practice, and I did eventually get good at that.

To go along with the class, he bought me two skeins of practice yarn, knitting needles, and a how-to book. (The class was free so long as you purchased supplies from the store hosting the class. If you purchased your supplies elsewhere, there was a $20 fee. It ended up being cheaper to just buy good quality supplies from the yarn store and avoid the fee.)

2. If you follow me on Instagram, you might remember that Munchkin had pneumonia back in December. Other than feeling crummy, he didn’t really hate it. It gave him the opportunity to sit in bed and read for four days without Seahawk hounding him to play. Well, earlier this week, Small Fry got a cold which turned into pneumonia. I wish we could figure out why our family keeps getting so sick and stop it, but we can’t. (This is the third family member inside of a year to get it – Will had it last February.) Sigh. Anyway, it’s much sadder to quarantine a 3-year-old who doesn’t have a whole lot of interests that he can do himself (like reading). Fortunately, we have one of those little 7-inch screen portable DVD players, so Small Fry watched a lot of movies while he recovered. Actually, he watched Toy Story 2 a lot of times 😉

3. Dragonfly is getting so big! I already knew that the first year flies by with babies, but it’s so surprising every time anyway. I don’t know exactly how much he weighs or his length right now, but I know he’s getting bigger because his little wrists are beginning to get lost in the baby fat on his arms. Hehe.

4. We’ve done really good at making a meal plan and going to the grocery store once a week every week this month. It’s so easy for us to revert back to daily shopping sometimes, but it hasn’t been as bad as normal this month. It typically costs about $100 to $150 per week for 14 meals, which covers full meals for both lunch and dinner (and toaster waffles or cereal for breakfast) for five of us. Not too bad 🙂

5. I mentioned once before that I was doing Aqua Zumba. Well, I’m still doing that twice a week. The only times I’ve missed since I started back in August are the eight weeks during my c-section recovery. I’m not that much thinner (but a little… I think), but I’m in much better health and I’m quite a bit stronger. So, yay for that!

Blessings,

A Day in our Homeschool

Posted by Wendy on February 17, 2016 3 Comments

I’ve never done one of these types of posts before, so I thought it might be kind of fun today.

Here’s what our day looked like yesterday.

8 a.m.

Dragonfly and I wake up. I nurse him and we snuggle while I check email and the Schoolhouse Review Crew forum from the mobile web on my phone.

8:30 a.m.

Small Fry wakes up. He’s still under quarantine from a bout of (mild) pneumonia so I take him breakfast in his bedroom today. When he finishes eating, it’s time for his medicine – an antibiotic and an inhaler.

10 a.m.

The big boys wake up. Normally I’d wake them up earlier, but Will kept them up late the night before, so I let them sleep in. They eat breakfast and wash the dishes. We’re ready for school by 11.

11 a.m.

School starts! It’s our first day using our new Logic of English curriculum, and that’s where we start today. I’ve spent the past week reading the teacher manual portion of the textbook, so I’m pretty comfortable teaching it.

11:30 a.m.

After hearing me get frustrated with Dragonfly for making so much noise while I’m trying to teach a new curriculum to the boys, Will takes him out for half an hour so we can finish working through Logic of English. Before he leaves, he decides that he’ll spend the day going to record stores looking for “new” music. He asks if I want to go with him, and even though it’s a school day, I decide that sounds nice. So during the 45 minutes or so that he and Dragonfly are out running errands, the boys and I finish up the subjects they need my help with – English and Math. I give them specific instructions to finish up the other subjects on their own while I’m gone. There’s one other one that requires my help (writing), but it’s designed to be done only twice a week, so I’m okay putting it off until tomorrow. (Since Seahawk is 12 now, he stays home and babysits quite often. Not normally for as long as today, but frequently.)

12:30 p.m.

Will and Dragonfly arrive back home with lunch for the older boys. Confident that they know what to do, Will and I leave. (We take the baby with us.)

1 p.m.

Seahawk calls us to let us know that they’ve finished lunch and are going to finish their school now.

5 p.m.

Will and I arrive home from our day out. I check the boys’ work, and they’ve done a good job finishing their school on their own – and not burning down the house 😉 I love that I can trust them to be so responsible when we go out.

5:15 p.m.

Will takes the two older boys out for a few more errands. They’ve been stuck inside all day, so this is a welcome reprieve for them.

7 p.m.

Dinnertime! We have Japanese Curry (chicken and vegetable) over plain white rice.

8:15 p.m.

I leave for my exercise class – Aqua Zumba. I go twice a week, and it’s really great. I love it. While I’m gone, Will and the boys stay home (or go for a walk – I’m not entirely sure since I’m not here).

9:40 p.m.

I arrive home from Zumba. Will usually keeps the boys up until this time. I think he gets lonely otherwise. Shortly after I arrive home, it’s bedtime for Seahawk, Munchkin, and Small Fry. I change Dragonfly’s diaper and clothes into pajamas, then nurse him to sleep. The rest of the evening, until Will and I are ready for bed, is spent with him doing a bit of work since we were gone all day. While he’s working in his home office, I watch 7th Heaven on Amazon Prime and practice my knitting (I just learned how to knit this past Sunday).

Midnight

Bedtime!

While today wasn’t a “normal” day, it was a good one nonetheless. All of the work got done, the children were cared for, and everyone was happy. That makes it a success in my eyes.

Blessings,

This post is part of a roundup that the Schoolhouse Review Crew is doing on “A Day in Our Homeschool.” For a glimpse into other families’ schedules, click the banner below to be taken to the roundup.

Crochet Cloche Hat with Flower

Posted by Wendy on February 15, 2016 11 Comments

At Christmastime, I got a couple of new sweaters to go with my skirts to get me through the cold weather (tank tops aren’t really appropriate when it’s below freezing outside, even with a coat on…). They matched my two skirts perfectly – one blue and one pink – and I love them. While we were moving from the sweater section to the dressing room to make sure the sweaters fit, we passed through the hat department and found the absolute perfect hat. It’s a 1920s style bucket hat with a brim and a thin band around the base. It’s pretty much an exact match to my blue outfit.

I knew pretty much right away that I wanted to get another one to match my pink outfit, too, but that’s proven more difficult to find. So what does a crafty girl do? She makes her own! And that’s exactly what I did.

I spent a bit of time trying to find the perfect pattern, and I found a couple that were quite nice. But the problem was that I could tell about halfway through the crocheting process that they were going to end up way too small. So I ripped out all the stitches (I didn’t really want to waste my $9 yarn) and tried again. Same thing happened with the second pattern. So I decided to research what made a “1920s flapper hat.” Turns out, it’s called a Cloche Hat, and it’s basically just a beanie with a brim. That’s easy enough to do, so I gave up on the specific patterns (except for this one, which I used for the beanie portion of my hat, sans embellishments) and just added a brim to the beanie. Then I found a pattern for a lovely flower (I think they’re calling it a dahlia; I’m not that huge into flowers, so I’m not sure how much this actually looks like a dahlia…) and added it to the side of my hat.

I liked the way it turned out so well that I headed straight back to the yarn store and purchased two more skeins of the same yarn (100% Peruvian wool) in different colors and have since made a second hat, this time with a rose on it. I think I’m going to gift it to my mother-in-law (step-mother-in-law, if we’re being technical). I really love this pattern that I hodge-podged together from others. It turned out exactly the way I’d hoped. I definitely plan to make these for gifts for people as we need them.

Blessings,

This post is part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew’s roundup on crafts. That post will go live on Friday, March 4th, 2016.

5 Random Things: March 5

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My Decision to Give up Sewing

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