Thanksgiving is frighteningly near. Have you thought about what you will do with and for the children on the big day? Here’s a collection of my best kid-friendly ideas from all of my Thanksgivings past. I hope it inspires you on how to get your kids involved this holiday: 1) Kids LOVED making individual […]
A Tangled Celebration
November 14, 2011 by 51 Comments
My daughter (who has a thing for hair) was heart-set on a Rapunzel birthday. Using some great internet resources, a bit of imagination, and a lot of friends and family, we threw a Tangled adventure for the birthday girl and her friends. Where to begin? How about with my little Rapunzel herself and the gorgeous […]
“Respect the Roll” Art Center for kids
November 10, 2011 by 10 Comments
Thank you to Cottonelle for encouraging me to Respect The Roll by sending me these awesome roll covers and Cottonelle Clean Care product and sponsoring my creativity. You can enter to win roll covers yourself by visiting Cottonelle’s Facebook page! ******** One topic I never expected to write about on this blog: Toilet Paper. But […]
Ghost Blogger: Steph from Somewhat Simple
September 28, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Please Welcome today’s Ghost–I mean Guest Blogger–Steph, from Somewhat Simple as she kicks off the Halloween Season around here with some Somewhat Spooky Goodies! ******** Hi everyone! I am excited to be here on Kendra’s site as part of the fun blog swap organized by The Dating Divas. My name is Stephanie and my site […]
I Heart Robots–GIVEAWAY!
September 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
www.iloverobots.com We love robots around my house! If you don’t believe me, maybe you should check out the Radical Robot Birthday Party my son had last year, and the cool classroom robot treats we made to take to school. So when the opportunity to review the brand new Mechatar robots came up, I had to […]
Hair-Razing adventures–Part II
August 28, 2011 by 20 Comments
If this feels a little like deja vu, it is because I have written a post like this before. Lest you think I just resurrected a post from the archives, let me assure you that this is a new post with new material, because my daughter decided to play hairdresser for the second time. This […]
First Day of School Photos
August 19, 2011 by 9 Comments
This week marked the last of the first days of school for the year! My daughter started Preschool and I started teaching my music classes for the semester. I thought you might want to see how I captured the new school year in photos. These chalkboards are fairly inexpensive (did I find them at Michaels […]
Cupcake Wall Art
August 10, 2011 by 14 Comments
This is the post I’ve been dying to share with you since I completed these back in March! But they were a special gift for my sister-in-law who was pregnant with her 1st child, and could not be revealed until after the shower. (I did cheat and post a few sneak peeks on my Facebook […]
Personalized Notebooks Back to School
July 31, 2011 by 6 Comments
It’s back to school around here on Monday, so you will see several posts related to that in the next little bit. Today I’m talking about Back to School shopping, and the crazy way I turned inexpensive notebooks into customized works of art for my kiddos! Every year I’m a bit overwhelmed by the […]
School Dress Up Days
May 19, 2011 by 1 Comment
Do your kids have dress-up days at school? Like Spirit Week or the like? Mine have had a series of them lately, and while they are fun, they have complicated the getting ready for school procedure. This is dress up like your favorite character from a book day: Can you tell what famous red-head she’s […]
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