Five curious kids, teaching two adults about life.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Craft it Forward!

Craft It Forward Exchange is based on the concept of the movie "Pay it forward". I will send a hand made gift to the first three people who leave a comment to this post on my blog requesting to join the CIF exchange. All the gifts will be made and sent out 'sometime within the next year'. How exciting to not know when your surprise package will arrive! What you need to do in return, is craft it forward by making the same promise on your blog.

This exchange is only open to those with active websites or blogs. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PROMISE TO POST THIS SAME 'CRAFT IT FORWARD' MESSAGE ONTO YOUR BLOG, WHICH MUST BE ACTIVE IN ORDER TO PLAY. YOU WILL CRAFT IT FORWARD TO THREE PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ON YOUR BLOG. I'd love for you to join me! Will you? Other comments are welcome, but only the first three will be my Craft It Forward recipients. Come and join me who doesn't love a gift or giving gifts???

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A (moderately) good read

This article is poorly written, poorly supported, but is a fantastic idea which I have advocated from before I entered high-school.

Friday, February 6, 2009

A Minty Mess

If I were one of those bloggers that wanted you to think she was awesome, I'd show you these pictures of how well our project turned out. The beautiful pink mints we made with the recipe from Flossie Teacakes.

Isn't she a doll? Licking the sugar from her fingers after all her hard work. ;)

Here's a photo of the pretty ones. Ooooooh. We didn't have hearts, just fall / Halloween cookie cutters. We made due. For some reason, the kids kept saying, "We can give away the pretty leaf ones, but we have to eat the scary ones ourselves...let's make lots of witches' hats!"

Since I'm human, and I want you to know it. To know that we get MESSY here, and life is messy, as is the learning process, I'm going to show you our MESS. Also, I'm showing it for the sake of my remembrance of just how much fun we really had. It wasn't all pretty, but it WAS all fun.

Our mess! See all the dough that didn't get cut into shapes? Because we kept trying to eat it? It will still be eaten, no worries. And all that white? Is leftover powdered sugar. A sticky mess that will get scrubbed in a minute.

The pile of mints that are in "scary" shapes, so that the kids can keep them. There are a few leaves on there, that I did, but there are a lot of skulls, witches' hats, head stones, and ghosts. Zach says that if we get creative, we can pretend the ghosts are just odd shaped stars.
Coniving, aren't they? They must get that from their mother!! Ha ha!