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Kits for learning

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I love buying kits for the kids – it makes it so much easier when everything you need is included in one package. Check out this website for science kits, they offer fun toys designed to teach your child science. I have never loved science so I’ve bought kits and things to help me teach Alice. My Aunt taught me second and third grades and I remember she made science fun because of the experiments. So far the science we have done has been limited to things the kids could do mostly on their own, or at least with limited help.

In grade school my favorite was building a tornado, probably because it is so easy to do with a plastic bottle. I bet the other most popular things to build is a volcano. The best part of a volcano is the end, when you see your work come to life. I know my kids would love that. The volcano kit looks fun, it is a volcano landscape with seven volcanoes and you are able to create various lava flows (can you imagine a six food tall spew?). The kit includes everything you would need – paint, labels, a guide, and a 32 page book with facts, stories, activities and experiments.

One kit I know I need to buy is the anatomy kit. Alice knows all of her body parts already and has been asking for one for a few weeks now. I don’t know all of the scientific names for bones or anything either so we have had to look everything up. It would be so much easier to have something for her to be able to look at.

Mono Adhesive Buy

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When I started making cards a couple of years ago I started out using snail adhesive (an Stampin’ Up product) which is also sold by other places as mono adhesive. I also used double stick tape which for me never seems to want to tear easily. I’m glad I got started with the good stuff as I’ve heard of others who started out with glue or glue sticks.

I see a handful of products often being bought in a group so people can save a little money, so I figured I would post about the mono a friend and I are planning on buying. It comes to $2.30 for a permanent refill (as opposed to removeable) and the site offers free shipping on orders over $50. My friend is going to ask others if they want to participate too so I’m sure we’ll get the free shipping. Depending on how many refills are ordered, the price also goes down.

If you want in on the share, leave a comment and be sure to include your email. Feel free to mention to friends! The more the merrier. 🙂

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Blog Candy for 15K hits

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Wow, over at Hope Stamps Eternal she has a handful of items up for blog candy for getting to 15,000 hits. That is awesome! There has been a lot of blog candy around the stamping and card making blogs lately – and just today I realized I’ve been blogging here for a year! I’m going to have to find some of my own blog candy to give away…

Beautiful Clothesline Pics

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I’ve always loved clotheslines. Since leaving home I haven’t been able to have one and I just want one so badly, especially since living in the south! The weather gets so hot, clothes would dry in minutes!

Simple Sparrow started a flickr group for clotheslines this past week. Her post about clotheslines is here.

We have a smaller yard here then we did in WA State, but the difference is we don’t have a fence. And we live in an HOA where I’m fairly sure we aren’t even allowed to have a clothesline. It’s disappointing because I think it would be so fun for the kids to have a line of their own like I did when I was little. We had these round metal u-shaped pipes that were upside down and then there were holes in them for the actual line, and between one ‘u’ there was a string at kid height that was put up when I was little. I would hang doll clothes up or small items that would fit there. And in South Dakota heat, everything would dry so fast. Then we would throw them in the dryer for just a few minutes to soften them up. I admit to not paying attention to the cost of electricity growing up, and I wonder how much money that saved my Mom? My Grandma still hangs her clothes out, or my Uncle does for her.

For now, I have to browse the clothesline flickr groupto see any. I wonder if we put up a fence, if we could get away with a small clothesline?

Thrifting Fun

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One of my complaints about living in the south (at least in my area) is the lack of thrift stores. The only one we have is Goodwill, and there are several, and often there are great finds. But I wanted more, I wanted a thrift store with furniture, with areas sections off filled with items from different people, with another thrift shop right next door.

I’m not sure about the next door part but I found the thrift shopper website! The best part – search by zip code. I entered mine and 10 shops popped up. Of course, seven were goodwill, two were community thrit stores (that I knew about) and only one was new to me. But one more new one is better then nothing. I need to enter surrounding cities to see if there are more listed that are close.

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