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		<title>Kiddley takes a break</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for us to put Kiddley on the back-burner for a while. Since the birth of our daughter Lily back in June we have been struggling as a family to find the right balance of life, work and blogging. Unfortunately life has been suffering more and more. It has been regularly occurring to me [...]<br/>
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		<title>Valentine’s buckets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over at Knit &#038; Pearl you will find these beautiful decoupage buckets, ready and waiting to be filled with Valentine&#8217;s treats. Joy says:
&#8220;Want to make one? it&#8217;s easy
- cut out illustrations from a damaged or favorite book
- glue stick them on to the pail
- once pail is covered with illustrations, brush on a few layers [...]<br/>
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		<title>Theme dinners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ann from Mason-Dixon Knitting wrote in to tell us about her family&#8217;s theme dinners. After Ann&#8217;s son came out with those dreaded words &#8220;Mom. I don&#8217;t mean to be rude, but I really am not loving dinner these days.&#8221; Ann started having weekly dinners based on a fun theme.
&#8220;We do it once a week or [...]<br/>
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		<title>Heart stamps from potatoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 21:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Simple yet inspired (surely my favourite of combinations!).
Far quicker than carving a design into a potato, Angela from Colorfool and her little girl Keely used heart shaped cookie cutters to make speedy potato stamps. Create your own Valentine&#8217;s cards, wrapping and decorations in minutes!<br/>
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		<title>Apartment Therapy does the Nursery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Happy happy! Apartment Therapy launched it&#8217;s newest blog this month - The Nursery. Expect lots of nice stuff:
&#8220;As with all the AT blogs, this one is devoted to supporting the home, but it takes special aim that part of the home that is occupied by babies and small children&#8230;
&#8230;Hailing from the West Coast, the Midwest [...]<br/>
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		<title>Draw a giant labyrinth with chalk</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Releia from Bare Clementines has blogged about an easy way to draw a labyrinth in chalk on the ground for your kids to run around. Find some chalk, enlist your kids to help out and set about creating the most complicated labyrinth you can, causing major backache while you&#8217;re at it!
Releia&#8217;s labyrinth is created according [...]<br/>
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		<title>A living willow wigwam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last Saturday&#8217;s Guardian (UK) had a craft booklet full of crafts for all ages, including a handful for kids, and it&#8217;s  available online (thanks Zoe!). You will find a great article on the joys of crafting with kids, instructions for how to make a box kite, sock puppet and my favourite; a living willow [...]<br/>
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		<title>No-sew tutu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Andrea of Love Monkey sent us this great tutorial for &#8220;The easiest no-sew tutu ever!&#8221;


You will need:
Crinoline - in a few colours
Scissors
Elastic band - i used a large hair band in pink but you could always sew one from elastic just a little smaller than the child&#8217;s waist.

Cut the pieces of fabric into strips.  [...]<br/>
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		<title>Quick collages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sarah sent us this quick collage idea she did yesterday with her kids.
You will need:
A stack of magazines
Scissors
Glue
&#8220;They are so simple to do: Just hack up some old unwanted magazines (not the latest issue of Selvedge, or the most recent Boden catalogue, some things are just off-limits!), and re-construct!&#8221; - Sarah
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		<title>Paper CD sleeves for Valentine’s cookies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Angie from Northreads sent us this easy-peasy idea for packaging up a Valentine&#8217;s cookie. Using paper CD sleeves (available at office supply stores), slip the cookie inside so that it can be seen through the round plastic window. Decorate the sleeve with Valentine&#8217;s stamps, attach a cute label with rick-rack and you&#8217;re done! (link)<br/>
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