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Huge Crafty Blog List

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I haven’t been reading Rocks In My Dryer (GREAT name, right?) for very long, but today I discovered she has a huge craft blog list! I love finding peoples blog lists – the first time I found one was how I found so many of my favorites.

I spent way too much time this afternoon browsing the listed craft blogs, adding several to my Sage plug in, eventually either deleting them or adding them to my ‘craft blogs’ folder. It’s probably time I go back through my blog reading list as it is huge and kind of out of control.

Remember my promise of pictures? How I need to get the software on the laptop before I can get the pictures off the camera. Well, now my camera is lost. When my Mom was here visiting we went to the beach one day and ever since I can’t find the camera. I know it is here somewhere, probably in plain sight!, but just can’t find it! I’m going to look again today since I haven’t been thinking of it.

Contest for a Kindergarten Book

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There is a contest over at A Moms Review for a copy of Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten. I first saw the book on the Moms Review site and read additional reviews on Amazon.

I love homeschooling and love finding new and fun books to work with. I think this book would be a great addition to my library – I can see how Alice is doing and see if there is an area we need to work on a bit more. We decided to keep schooling through the summer but won’t start first grade work until the fall.

Head on over and leave a comment for a chance to win a copy of the book, the contest is until Friday, May 11.

PS I’ll be back soon. The computer hard drive died so I’m working on moving it, setting up the laptop on the desk and trying to figure out what to do with it. That’s two computers we have now that aren’t the best, but with a little work would be fine. I do have back ups of everything so I’m safe there. I definitely need to figure out the camera software now!

Podcasts and a Mother’s Day Contest

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Is everyone listening to the crafty podcasts that are out there? I search at least once a week on iTunes to see if anything new has been added but haven’t found anything lately. I’m getting ready to launch a crafty podcast so a new one will be available soon!

My friend Kelly McCausey runs MomsRadioNetwork.com – you can find so much great programming there! My friend Tishia Lee recently launched her show, go give her a listen. I listen to most of the podcasts on that list because I know they are well produced and I can rely on them to publish regularly.

Anyway, Kelly and Moms Radio Network are having a Mother’s Day contest! Check out the flyer for it (it is a pdf) and enter – the grand prize is $100 cash.

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.

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…

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