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Cafe Press Gnome Gear Shop
Wee Folk Art Gear Want to show your love for gnomes or support for Wee Folk Art? Check out our designs available through Cafe Press. We currently have two designs the rainbow Gnome Love and the…
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Learn-to-Knit Afghan Block Three
This series covers several different knitting stitches using the Learn-to-Knit Afghan book by Barbara Walker. Whether you are a true beginner or an intermediate knitter, you can take your knitting to the next level working…
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Jzin’s Washing Machine Wet-Felting Technic: Toadstool Cottage
Today we are happy to introduce Jzin Teng from Castle of Costa Mesa. She is guest blogging with a wonderful tutorial on how to use your washing machine to make this adorable toadstool cottage. I have not…
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Drawing Lesson 7: Advanced Level Cubes
As the weather has gotten nicer we are finding it harder and harder to squeeze in our drawing lessons. Most of our free time, not taken up by the end of the year activities, such as field trips,…
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Painter’s Palette Coloring Page
One of my earliest school memories involves me at the painter’s easel back when I was in kindergarten. I absolutely loved it when it was my turn at the easel. All those beautiful juice cans…
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Spools of Thread Coloring Page
I have many crafting supplies that give me pleasure just looking at them. I love my spools of thread. There are so many beautiful colors and they remind me of being a little girl. I…
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Learn-to-Knit Afghan Block Two
This series covers several different knitting stitches using the Learn-to-Knit Afghan book by Barbara Walker. Whether you are a true beginner or an intermediate knitter, you can take your knitting to the next level working…
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How To Cut T-Shirts To Make Yarn
In the very near future I plan to make a new gnome house… a very small gnome house… but I plan to decorate it shabby chic. Hey, even gnomes have different tastes, right? Anyway, I…
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Spools of Thread Applique
I can remember on one of my grandmother’s visits to our house my mother gave Bushia her sewing basket to organize. As is usually the case with unattended spools of thread, as soon as the lid…
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Crayons Coloring Page
BOX OF CRAYONS by Kimara Wise If I could name the crayons Oh what fun it’d be, The names would be extraordinary, Just like you and me! Red would be “Ketchup” Orange “Marmalade” Brown would…
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10 DIY Play/Real Workbenches for Children
Sources for these projects plus many more can be found HERE. While raising my children, I did not distinguish between “boy” and “girl” activities. My sons learning to sew and cook along with their sister and my…
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Learn-to-Knit Afghan Block One
This series covers several different knitting stitches using the Learn-to-Knit Afghan book by Barbara Walker. Whether you are a true beginner or an intermediate knitter, you can take your knitting to the next level working…
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Crayons Applique
As a child few things thrilled me more than a new box of crayons. Oh the possibilities, oh the beauty, oh the smell… is there anyone out there that can’t conjure up the smell of…
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How Does Your Garden Grow :: Planning April 2015
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. Growing up with Kimara as a mother, you would think I had…
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13 DIY Play Kitchens
Sources for each of these photos plus many more can be found HERE. Store bought play kitchens for children can be very expensive. Often, they are large and it’s nearly impossible to find the right…
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Beeswax Flowers
Although not quite as lovely smelling as the real thing, these beeswax modeled rose buds do have a sweet smell all their own. We have scheduled working with modeling beeswax as one of our projects in…
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May Appliques
If I had to give a definition of artist it would be “anyone that answers the call to create”. Whether we take paint brush to canvas, write a poem, sculpt an attractive crust on an…
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Drawing Lesson 6: Stacking Tables
We are continuing our weekly drawing class. We are using Mark Kistler’s book, You Can Draw in 30 Days. Instead of completing the book in 30 days, we plan to take 30 weeks, doing a…
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Wooden Bead Caterpillar
One of the projects in our Coming Soon updated Spring Bs unit is this super easy to make Wooden Beaded Caterpillar. If you are following the current online curriculum, the Wooden Bead Caterpillar would take…
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A Morning of Painting with Friends
I am beyond thrilled that last year I began painting. I will never be an exceptional painter, but finally picking up a paint brush fulfilled an unrequited dream and the time I’ve spend drawing and painting fills…
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Spring Flowers Coloring Page
Annuals and Perennials – Kimara Wise Some friends are just like annuals, Splashy, bright and fun, They bring joy into my garden, Basking in the sun. But when the days grow shorter, And the cold winds…
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Free Girl’s Skirt Patterns to Sew
Sources for all the skirts can be found HERE. When Michelle was a little girl, I could not get her to wear a dress or skirt. (Remember that family?) I’m not sure Michelle and I…
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Drawing Lesson 5 :: Hollow Cubes
We are continuing our weekly drawing class. We are using Mark Kistler’s book, You Can Draw in 30 Days. Instead of completing the book in 30 days, we plan to take 30 weeks, doing a…
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Building Bug’s Bench
Turn around and they go from playing with building blocks to building with power tools! Where does the time go? For a while now Bug has been asking Tim (Othy to the wee ones) to…
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