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Easy Butterfly Costume

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:00:09 +0000

This easy butterfly costume is perfect for my coloring loving girl! With just a few simple supplies she was able to color her way into a beautiful butterfly. This no sew Halloween costume couldn’t be any easier! We love easy at our house. Last year we made a no sew witch costume.

Butterfly Costume Supplies

a black long sleeve shirt
black leggings
thin white muslin fabric (about a yard)
Elmer’s Painters
black extra wide Sharpie
2 large pom poms
2 black chenille pipe cleaners
1 headband
glue gun and glue sticks
glow in the dark fabric paint (optional)

Place arm of shirt up at an angle. Take fabric and cut a wing shape. Cut fabric to match angle of sleeve and side of shirt.

Copy this shape so there are two symmetrical wing shapes.

To make coloring the fabric easier, iron the fabric wing to the shiny side of freezer paper. The freezer paper will stabilize the fabric and can be easily peeled away when finished.

Draw a design on the wing with a Sharpie marker. Repeat for other wing making sure design is symmetrical. Holding the fabric up to a window will make it easy to trace.

Color away! If you want your butterfly to glow in the dark outline with glow in the dark fabric paint.

Hot glue wings to back edge of arms and sides of shirt.

Twist pipe cleaners to the headband and hot glue to secure. Hot glue a pom pom to each end of pipe cleaner.

How easy was that!

Michaels has great products and inspiration to help transform your yard, classroom or living room into a spooktacular space this year!

Whether you’re into spooky sights, playful pumpkins or giggling ghouls, the Michaels.com Halloween project page has tons of ideas for DIY Halloween costumes and décor.

Still haven’t decided what you’re going to be? Check out the other 49 DIY costumes from the Michaels Makers and you might just find the perfect one for you, your kiddos or your beloved pet this Halloween– they’re to die for!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Voglio parlarvi di un sogno.

polepole — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:30:00 +0000

Letter Sounds Tray Activity – with familiar foods!

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:15:00 +0000

Little erasers are so appealing ( because they are cute? I have no clue!) but what is really appealing about this letter sounds activity is that it uses familiar foods to work on literacy skills. Why is that awesome? Well, as children learn something new we want to reinforce it and in my experience when it’s reinforced naturally it packs a bigger punch than if we do this one activity over and over. Kids see these foods whether they are eating them or not pretty often and if your child is anything like mine they will recall this lesson and let you know that bananas are spelled with a lowercase b! I never told her a thing about spelling… but that’s the beauty of doing short but meaningful activities, they add up and your child adds them all up and constructs new meaning!

Gather your materials. You will need some food erasers ( We got ours at Party City) and some sentence strips ( ours are sticky back which is wonderful for changing up the letters in a class), a marker, and a tray.

Write out the letters that correspond to the sounds. We are doing beginning sounds because that is where my daughter is at. We have talked about other sounds but are sticking close to the beginning ones for now, no rush! Write them out as lowercase letters remember that children will be reading lowercase letters much more often than uppercase.

Stick the strips on a tray or cookie sheet! Oh I forgot to mention a cute little holder for the erasers ( you can’t see them on the table, but I had to dump out a bunch of gems to use this one). Add the erasers and invite your kiddo.

Dump them ( but just reaching in and taking them out one by one is great too) and start matching them up. Having a limited amount of items helps kids to feel successful. If your child is struggling say the words with them, you can slow it down but make sure the sound isn’t too distorted. Encourage them to say the words as well, it helps to hear themselves. They are still learning but it’s a small dose, this is something parents like me with kids in kindergarten can do for a few minutes on thr weekend.

Kids love to be able to touch and relate to what they are learning and while a fully realistic experience is even better, a little hands-on manipulative time for literacy is great too!

All done! Next you can use these little erasers for counters or in a rhyming basket. What woud you use them for?

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“Non Disturbare” – i Cartelli per Meditare in Pace

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:00:41 +0000

Guest post di Elena Valli Oggi ho il piacere di ospitare Elena Valli che ha fatto un regalo a tutte le persone che, come me, desiderano meditare e hanno bisogno di far capire ai propri cari che non è il momento di bussare alla porta. *** Seguo Claudia ormai da qualche anno, più o meno...

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Spaghetti Casserole

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 05:30:06 +0000

This spaghetti casserole is a hearty easy dinner that will become a regular in your dinner rotation. My family loves italian meals like crock pot lasagna. We also love these easy skillet meals. If you are looking for a meal you can freeze ahead try my spaghetti pie, it makes two pies, and can be frozen ahead! It doesn’t get easier than that.

Spaghetti Casserole

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 medium green pepper, chopped
2 medium onions, chopped
1/2 cup olive oil
2 – 6 ounce cans of tomato paste
2 – 28 cans whole tomatoes, pureed
1 – 8 ounce canned mushrooms, drained
1 pound spaghetti (Barilla gluten free is what I used)
2-3 cups grated cheddar cheese

Saute

1 1/2 pounds ground beef
1 medium green pepper, chopped
2 medium onions, chopped
Once cooked, drain fat.

Simmer for 1 1/2 hours

1/2 cup olive oil
2 – 6 ounce cans of tomato paste
2 – 28 cans whole tomatoes, pureed
1 – 8 ounce canned mushrooms, drained

Once sauce is finished add ground beef mixture.

Cook 1 pound spaghetti and drain. Place spaghetti is large 3 quart casserole dish. Place sauce on top of spaghetti and top with grated cheddar cheese. Bake 350 for about 30-4o minutes.

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On being ambidextrous

jo ebisujima — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 00:30:00 +0000

I have always been pretty ambidextrous and there are some things that I favour my left hand with, like playing hockey, archery, pouring drinks! I don't really think about it, it just seems more natural with some things.

I don't wear a watch these days but when I did I wear it on my right wrist and strangely enough, Ebi-kun does the same.

So, a little story, when I was 16 I left school and went to the local art college for a year, wasn't the best year. Firstly I had applied to do art and tech drawing but when I rocked up, the tech course was mysteriously full - we learned later they had let three lads onto the course under late enrollment. That is a rant for another day.

A few weeks into term, our dog managed to knock me down the stairs, I hit my elbow pretty badly and couldn't straighten my arm properly for about 3 weeks, I rocked up to college with my right arm in a sling!

The lecturers wanted to know why I had bothered turning up, I said, I'd use my left hand, which I did. I favour my right for writing and drawing but forcing me to use my left was great. Strangely though, my style is completely different with my left hand, one of my lectures actually said that I should use my left all the time! The cheek!

Later in the year I broke my leg skiing! Nasty break and missed a lot of college, I did take my mock exams and was allowed to take my A Level a year early, it was surprising they let me because I didn't have that much work in my portfolio due to missing so much college and only being there for a year anyway, and I had missed a lot of classes. Turned out to be a good call on their part as I rocked a B!

Anyway, Ebi-kun has been going through a similar experience with his fractured arm. Sensei hasn't been very sympathetic and still makes him do his tests! Maths he is doing OK at, he had a set of questions the other day and still finished 4th, doing it with his left hand. Kanji on the other hand he is struggling with because there are so many strokes and it's difficult for him to write them accurately with his left. We see the doctor again today, if still hurts so I'm not sure what will happen.

It's sports festival on Saturday so Ebi-kun really wants it fixed by then!

sweet william

tinyhappy — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:34:31 +0000

That beautiful bunch of flowers, which includes waratah, freesias and sweet william, was a gift from my dear friend Jenny who has been visiting for a few days. Lucky us! Much lego, coffee drinking and craft discussion took place. And my sister T and her family have been staying, too. Beautiful kid-chaos and happiness. Quilts, pillows and toys everywhere. Popcorn under the couch. The stack of fabrics in blue, pink and grey is sitting on my worktable, ready to be, well, worked. I'm hoping to cut into them tomorrow. But in the meantime, they are very gorgeous altogether like that, don't you think? They'll become embroidered project bags for Loop. Our local city council has set up a live-streaming camera inside a kākā nest: if you have kids, they might enjoy checking in on the mother and her chicks. Here is a song I find myself listening to often these days: Blur's My Terracotta Heart.

Salsa allo yogurt e menta per felafel

V1MB — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:24:00 +0000

Ricomincio da qui, da un appunto per preparare di nuovo la salsa di yogurt perfetta da accompagnare ai falafel, se no poi me ne dimentico.

Ingredienti:

1 vasetto di yogurt magro bianco (fatto in casa?!)
un cucchiaino di olio extravergine di oliva
un pizzico di sale
qualche foglia di menta fresca
una foglia di basilico fresco
qualche filo di erba cipollina

La preparazione è semplice: si sminuzzano le erbe aromatiche nello yogurt aggiungendo poi gli altri ingredienti e mescolando. Si utilizza fredda per accompagnare le polpettine tiepide di ceci, lievemente piccanti, ma anche nelle insalate miste e di pomodori.

Quando imparerò a ANCHE fare i felafel, sarò ancor più soddisfatta.

early bird/night owl prototype, malware and trust issues

Larissa Holland — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 10:22:00 +0000

Hey. I've been quiet but busy. My beloved and wonderful mom turned 80! I love her so much. What a lucky kid I am. We had a wonderful girls-only family celebration at the beach and it was a nice getaway from the computer and security problems I've been having lately.

Mean people infected my computer with malware and so I've been dealing with huge waves of malicious emails being sent from my personal email address to everyone I've ever emailed in my whole life and also their dogs. My apologies if you've received any of those. I don't send out patterns or updates via email so please don't click on any of those links that say 'Hey, friend! Go here," or similar. I know y'all are smarter than that, but thought I'd tell you anyway. Apparently after the initial wave they can still send emails that appear to be from me without actually being from me, which is called spoofing. Just trash them.

I've been working with my email provider and I've had to completely wipe my Mac and start from scratch to make sure the boogeymen are gone. It's left me with major trust issues so I can hardly bring myself to get on the internet anymore. And also now after the rebuild of my computer I've been introduced to the nightmare that is the Mac Photos app and I hate hate hate it. Whoever decided it would make a swell replacement for iPhotos needs to be put in the naughty corner with a cone hat. Downloading and formatting those two images up there ^ would have taken about 5 minutes max in iPhotos. It took me about 30 minutes in Photos and there were plenty of creative epithets being hurled around during that time. I hear there's a new one being released today so I hope they've listened to the myriad complaints. Oh, iPhoto, I miss youuuuuuuuu.

Anyhoo. Done with the negative stuff. Cute birds! Let's talk about cute, stuffed birdies. What you see is a tight prototype of the upcoming pattern. There were some minor tweaks made since the original one for my daughter (some I like, some I don't). So a few more little tweaks to come. But it's close.

It's almost October! That's so crazy! Where did you go, September? It seems like time speeds up after August every year. Slow down, fall, I want to savor you. I need pumpkins on my porch! Must go buy pumpkins and mums.

Come prendersi cura del proprio cucciolo: 10 idee fai da te per cani e gatti

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