One of my favorite children’s books is The Hundred Dresses. It was first published in 1944 by the author Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. It is about a little girl who is very poor who tries to convince her friends that she has one hundred dresses in …
Silly Stuff Lacing Cards Beautiful handmade dolls by Zwergase. I just love them. I can’t afford to collect them, however. So, I saved some pictures and made them into lacing cards for little people in my family. (The silly duck card is from Zazzle.) Every year, new dolls are made …
The Tale of Custard the Dragon -Ogden Nash- (Last Verse) Belinda is as brave as a barrel full of bears, And Ink and Blink chase lions down the stairs. Mustard is as brave as a tiger in a rage, But Custard keeps crying for a nice safe cage. Beautiful …
Golden Books are old friends. While today’s Golden Books are wonderful, too, nothing beats the past. Golden Books have been around since the early 1930s. As I searched the Internet for the covers of the books, I was helplessly transported back in time to my own childhood and to …
WHAT IS A KEEPSAKE? It is one thing to one person and another thing to another. We all hope that when we make something for someone, they will like it. In this crafty world, it is easy to make things we like which horrify other people. (Stop me if …
Teaching children to be quiet is a tough task. Their little voices are always full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm means “volume”. Every mother knows how hard it is to keep little children occupied in church. So, when I recently attended the blessing of a new grandson, I …
Lacing Cards are easy to make and VERY inexpensive. They are a mainstay of quiet children’s games and have been for several generations. While the cards themselves keep changing, they can actually be anything you want them to be. I wanted mine to be old-fashioned. I found the images …
