My friend Lydia’s husband and Grasshopper and Sensei‘s art teacher’s husband are both Industrial Designers who have worked on vacuum products. Turns out that they have worked together too! What a small world! Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production. When I…
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Aunt Jemima®. The opinions and text are all mine. My kids like a hot breakfast but I rarely wake up in time to cook for them before school. On the weekends, before their soccer games, it can also be a mad scramble to get…
My girls visited Alcatraz this past summer and it didn’t freak them out. I wondered if it would. PickyKidPix has been obsessed with psychics and mediums lately and watches Lisa Williams a little too much. It could be that we live in an old house that is NOT haunted but there are certainly stories of…
What do we want from love? To be known. To be seen. To be understood. from TEDTalk by Mandy Len Catron Today is my 20th anniversary! Happy anniversary to the love of my life. Twenty years, 3 kids and a dog later, here we are! As my husband always says, “Who would have thunk?” Have…
Grasshopper and Sensei did a five-week service trip through her YMCA sleepaway camp in Australia. It was a trip of a lifetime with about a dozen kids both boys and girls and two counselors! The International Camper Exchange Program (ICEP) goes to more than a dozen countries and anyone who has done sleepaway camp through…
My son saw this video on The Kid Should See It and wanted to build a 3D Hologram Projector. Build Hologram Projector Video It looks simple enough and it certainly caught my 10-year-old son’s attention. The materials are easy to come by too. You just need: CD Case that you can cut up X-Acto Blade…
I’m glad that PickyKidPix knows how to use power tools. It started with a woodshop class in middle school, and then she progressed to assembling her own furniture from Ikea. The Ikea projects included a bed, desk, desk hutch, TV console, and bedside table. This is the Mesopotamia Throne Project Inspiration Photo. When it came time…