Minimalism Summed Up

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Christmas Ideas

Great list of advent activities from Elsie Marley
Wonderful list of handmade gifts from DesignSponge

For grandparents:
Jar of love
Fire starters

Quilts from Men's Shirts

I have been collecting shirts from all the men in the family (great-grandpas, grandpas, papa, and son) to make a quilt.

These are such an inspiration:

Brooke's quilt for her boy

My Spinning Wheels quilt and notice that binding!

I plan on starting to cut this week and slowly work on it.

Homemade Valentines ideas

10 Crafts- I still need to make my kids bean bags--maybe now is a good time!
More crafts - including salt dough hearts and more crafts --I think that we will do the hearts crayons because we have lots of crayons and a silicone heart mold from IKEA.
Make "Reasons why I love you" books
Handmade plantable paper then cut in the shape of hearts

I know there are tons more great ideas out there but it is time for action or it won't happen around here.

Granola recipes

Amazing granola recipe from the Cheese Board collective--Killer Granola
Stephmodo's granola recipe
Katie Did's granola
Orangette's recipe and David Leibowitz's take on it (both are a riff on Nigela's recipe from Feast)
Dinner: A Love Story's recipe

Coming up are granola bars and if we ever had any left, killer granola cookies from the Cheese Board Collective Cookbook

Girl Room Inspiration

Fairy room

Fairy room how to

picture from here

Kitchen re-do inspiration and a science link

Long, narrow and dark to light and clean.
The blog it came from with lots of other great ideas.
Great science site for kids, including comparing your appendages to animal appendages.