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Hoover Cordless 2-In-1 Stick and Handheld Vacuum Rocks!
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…
Gifts that Give Back
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…
25 Multicultural Adoption Books for Kids
There is an ancient Chinese belief that an invisible, unbreakable red thread connects all those who are destined to be together. From The Red Thread by Grace Lin November is National Adoption Awareness Month. To celebrate, I offer a multicultural adoption picture book, middle grade, and young adult list for kids and teens. There is…
Teachers: Earn FREE Diversity Book for Classroom Library
Thank you to Junior Library Guild, the collection development and book review service relied upon by thousands of schools and public libraries, for donating the books for the Multicultural Children’s Book Day Classroom Reading Challenge! The Junior Library Guild editorial team reviews more than 3,000 new titles each year, in manuscript or prepublication stage. They have a…
Viewing the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse from Boston
Did you catch the supermoon lunar eclipse this past September 27th, 2015? It’s a supermoon and a lunar eclipse or ‘blood moon’ happening at the same time. It was visible around much of the planet in a rare celestial event. The last one was in 1982 and the next one is in 2033. We watched it here a few miles…