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Prep Time: 15
Materials :
Directions:
2. Mix water and food color in a medium bowl or disposable plastic container. Add to plaster of Paris to make a "pudding" consistency.
3. Stand your cardboard tubes on end (on wax paper or foil.) Pour the mixture into the tube.
4. When firm, peel off the cardboard. Any cardboard left on chalk can be rubbed off with gloved finger or scraped off with knife blade.
5. Dry overnight. Go out to your sidewalk or driveway, and start drawing!
Test Kitchen Tips:
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Labels: crafts, summer fun
Available in two indulgent scents - Sweet Almond and Jojoba Essence - rich, creamy textures and delicate fragrance designed to leave your clothes feeling smooth.
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If you are looking for a little something different to read to your child check out
"Ten Speed Press" they offer a nice selection of reasonably priced books.
And while you're there get some for yourself. They also offer selections for cooks, mental & spiritual health, career & education & more.
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Cascarones are dyed eggs meant to be broken over the head of a friend, spilling confetti and favors. Children take special delight not only in decorating the eggs but also in smashing them later.
You will need:
Egg dyes, hot water, distilled white vinegar
Raw eggs
Small bowls or cups
Spoons
Empty egg carton
Scissors
Colored tissue paper
Egg cutter or sharp knife
Trinkets, candy, confetti, or rice
Clear paper glue
To make:
Prepare several colors of egg dye with hot water and vinegar in small bowls. Dye the eggs in assorted colors as desired. Lift eggs out with spoons and let dry in the egg carton.
While the eggs are drying, use scissors to cut out several 1- or 2-inch square pieces of tissue paper, one for each egg.
With the egg cutter or a sharp knife, cut off 1/6 of each egg from its narrow end and pour out the yolk and white. Rinse the inside of the shells and let them dry.
Fill each dried eggshell with trinkets, candy, confetti, or rice. Cover the hole of each egg with a piece of tissue paper and glue the edges to the shell.
If desired, cut narrow strips of tissue paper and glue them on the shell for decoration.
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Recently I have been working on creating a few family websites. One each for my mother's & father's sides of the family and one for my husband's relatives. I thought this would be a great way to reconnect & keep in touch with the relatives I basically only see at funerals. So I fumbled my way around a few sites (I am by no stretch of the imagination a web designer) and settled on merging two sites.(more on them below) I am for the most part done with one. The others will be easier because I can copy & paste the finished site onto the other ones & then just edit the personal info.
My sites are private,for members only, but in order to publish an RSS feed I had to make the homepage available to readers. On these sites besides posting photos you can leave comments, start discussions,add files, chat, blog, leave notes and create groups on whatever topics interest you.
I decided on a Shutterfly's Share Site as my main site. It is incredible easy to navigate and set up. No knowledge of html is needed if you want to add videos or widgets/gadgets you just copy & paste. Member may add & edit content based on the owners (you!) preferences. You may also choose to receive email updates on new activity. There is an informative help section & sample sites to guide you. You can create a site just to for your immediate family members or a group. In order to participate on the site you must be a member of Shutterfly..it's free & you'll find many already belong.
*Actually Shutterfly helps here to: enter you your email account & they will check off those with accounts (not to worry they don't store your email info).
I am also halfway through a Shutterfly site for The Fabulous Adventures of Beanz & Bou.....stay tuned!
I have also linked the Family site to one on Ning. There you can create your own social networking site on any subject. This site works somewhat like Myspace & Facebook giving everyone their own personal profile page to customize along with areas for members to add & edit photos & such. I did find it a little frustrating going back & forth to edit pages but it isn't difficult. I mainly decided to keep the Ning site linked to the Shutterfly one because of the ability to add groups & so eveyone can create their on profile page. I am considering creating a social network site on Ning when I am finished with the family ones.
I also made (but decided not to use) a site at MyFamily.com.
This is also a great site and I may have gone with only it had I not worked so hard on the other ones before discovering it (and before I sent out invitations to join the other ones) **Lesson form me...thoroughly go through the sites you are considering & create a little something on all of them to see what best suits your family & make your choice and then...and only then send out the invites. All the sites are free so try them all.
*MyFamily does offer an upgraded version for $29 a year which isn't bad if you only have one site (different members can pay each year) but the free versions offers a great deal.
I'll be happy to help you out if I can.
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Labels: Motherhood
Hotels Combined is (in their own words)the world's leading accommodation meta-search engine in terms of inventory and prices. They index the most hotels out of any other hotel price comparison website, and find the best price listed across more than 30 major websites. Using them, you don't need to visit different websites one by one to compare rates. They do it for you!
What does this have to do with charity?
Simply "become a fan" of their Facebook page and they will send $5 to a supported charity of your choice! Choose from...World Vision, World Wildlife Fund or Make-A-Wish. Mention it on your blog or website and they will give $20!
Why are they doing this?
Hotels Combined For Charity began with the idea to raise money for charity whilst at the same time spreading the word about their free hotels comparison search engine.
They thought it would be a great idea to offer a donation incentive to get your attention.
Well they got my attention and I got yours, now go on out their and spread the word.
World Vision (Facebook page).....Website
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Labels: activities, sites for kids
Go beyond the chain bookstores & broaden your children's horizons with a bounty of books from around the globe without ever leaving the comforts of home. The "International Children's Digital Library" is a free site containing 3,600 books from 60 countries & in 48 languages.
What's that?...your child can't read Croation?....
No problem. Many of the books have been translated. You can pick your preferred language, view in original language or just flip through & look at the illustrations.
Finding the perfect book couldn't be easier. The categories are quite extensive..age, length of story, genre, picture books or chapter, happy or sad, plays, comics or all books with blue covers.
Registration is not required however membership allows you to create a reading list and saves the page so you can read at your leisure.
Get each of your children their own "Virtual Library Card" with no worries of lost books becoming overdue.
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Just adding a quick post to keep account active. Figuring out my new iMAC & keeping busy with "the girls" have put me more than a little behind.Lots to post and little time. I will add more to all my blogs soon.
Please stay tuned!
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Beanz and Bou come from a long line of stylish women...
...........Auntie Lis......&.....Mama Baby.......
...................Gran'mare was ~HOT~
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