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Today, Jeanette and I are making gifts! It’s the perfect combination of frugality and thoughtfulness as it says, “I made this for YOU!” My gift ideas below are for dogs with homemade Peanut Butter Banana Dog Biscuits. I created this recipe to use up leftover “about to go bad” ingredients. My dog seems to love…
ARCKIT: Architecture Design Toy for Kids ARCKIT is a freeform model-making system that does not require glue, yet it lets you design, build and modify these really cool modern houses. They simply snap together! This would be a wonderful building toy for a budding architect or just any kid who likes to build in 3…
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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…
Jeanette Nyberg of Craftwhack and I have teamed up again to bring you a holiday shopping series. November 3, 2015: Gifts That Give Back (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) November 10, 2015: DIY Gift Ideas (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) November 17, 2015: Gender Bending Gifts for Kids (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) November 24, 2015: Gifts to Steal from Loved Ones (Hers, Mine) (Last year’s: Hers, Mine) December 1, 2015: Left Brain/Right Brain…
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…