Riot and Frolic
a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog
Category: Craftacular
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I could also name this "The Not Great Pumpkin". Maybe you'll disagree but I label this #uninspired. Sunday Pumpkin carving: The Godfamily took the little ghouls (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HA HA HA. Ha ha… [sigh]) for the seemingly annual Pumpkin Carve. For some crazy reason, I didn't take any pictures of their super cute pumpkins. Trust…
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Monday Books for the week: hey, big surprise – a lot of parents plan ahead and like, check out holiday themed books before the actual holiday. Therefore, those of us who are just getting the hang of this planning-ahead-and-taking-care-of-our-children thing and are looking for ghost books the week of Halloween are screwed. Or…
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A week themed after the most simple geometric shape might not sound like fun, but this was our best week yet. Whether we can attribute that to the AMAZING theme or to my getting my act together is up to you. MONDAY Paper building blocks: a project that was perfectly soothing and monotonous to prep AND totally…
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Farm Week basically became Where Food Comes From Week and since it involved food, I was happy. Monday I was not super on-the-ball with my planning this week, so we started off slow, with a trip to the library. I wish I had spent more time researching kids' books, because there are SO MANY KICK…
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Dude. Apple Week. How can one NOT be excited when there's food involved? Monday Apple cards: I made my own template for a cut-open apple using some parchment paper and MY IMAGINATION. Again, I reliquished my not-so-inner perfectionist and let the ladies loose with their sketchy hand-eye coordination and scissors. Zoo REALLY likes using scissors…
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Let's review the simpleness that was Theme Week #1: Monday Leaf Magnets: a fairly fool-proof craft that included enough exercise and education to look like a school thingy. Tuesday Placecards: in case the girls got lost around our huge dining room table, I made (the ladies were too busy playing outside/helping pick up construction material from…
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Things have gotten REAL since my last take on ye olde bullet journal. Not that this summer wasn't totally filled with adventures and expansions, but now there's school and more working and still feeding the people and cleaning the shelter. Plus, there's this whole blog thing. I needed to change up my weekly…
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(It's like Shark Week, but totally different.) In an effort to be even more of a nerd, I have declared a theme for every week around my house. This week, it's LEAF WEEK. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I "pinned" some super cool leaf magnets: leafs! trapped in time! under plastic! on your…
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I've mentioned before how I found the simple tutorial for bullet journaling, a straight-forward way to organize your thought, to-do lists, notes, or ramblings on paper. Having a couple of months to try my hand at different schedule layouts, research other planners I like, and troubleshoot long-term planning spreads and to-do lists, here's what I've come…
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Advent Adventures Day 12 : Borax snowflakes. Yo. Today I channeled my Martha Stewart and made Borax snowflakes with the little ladies. It was neat. There was science involved. I loosely tied this in with the three wise men and their charts and science-y stuff. Yeeeah. Loosely. here's mae cake showing off her snowflake pipe-cleaner…
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