Well, I am a little bit behind in my scrapbooking (who isn't right?). So, even though I am well into my 40th year, I recently completed these pages of my 39th birthday celebration. I really like the way they turned out and wanted to share them with you. I started with the Reflections Digital Scrapbook Layout. If you look at that page, you can see that I really used that for the 2nd page of my 2 ... Read More about Digital Delights: 39th Birthday Pages
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Hello Kitty Slumber Party: Part 3
Welcome back to the final installment of our recent Hello Kitty slumber party. Do you remember those pillowcases I made? We used those at the party. I bought fabric markers at Michael's with my 40% off coupon. The girls drew their pictures on the pillowcases, then signed their names to the pillowcases and got to take home a memento of the party and of their friendship. I had 1 extra ... Read More about Hello Kitty Slumber Party: Part 3
How I Organize my Found Recipes
I really like to cook. I love trying new recipes. It is so fun to try something new and taste/evaluate it. Over the years, I have accumulated quite a few recipes from here, there and everywhere. I have had subscriptions to various magazines and so and so forth. My recipe file, it overfloweth! A few years ago, I found this fantastic accordion file style organizer at Sur La ... Read More about How I Organize my Found Recipes
Crocodile Craft
Snowflake has moved on to another unit in our Moving Beyond the Page curriculum. She is studying Africa and Asia. The first literature unit that accompanies the social studies unit is Akimbo and the Crocodile Man. We got to make a fun craft within this unit and wanted to share it with you! Snowflake's crocodile Pumpkin's crocodile The creative story she wrote to go with our ... Read More about Crocodile Craft
Hello Kitty Slumber Party: Part 2
As I shared with you already, Snowflake turned 10 last month and we had a Hello Kitty slumber party to celebrate. I started with these invitations. I got the idea/inspirations to make these from this site: Handmade by Odette. While they are simply amazing and I love them, what she charges for her invitations on her etsy shop is almost my total budget for this party! So, I used my wonderful ... Read More about Hello Kitty Slumber Party: Part 2
BFG Creative Story
Snowflake recently finished her unit on the BFG that we started at the beginning of the year. This is part of the curriculum that we use, Moving Beyond the Page For her final project, she was to write a 5 paragraph story, create a dream jar, illustration for the jar and a recipe card for her dream. If you have read the BFG this will probably make sense to you. If you have not, enjoy the story ... Read More about BFG Creative Story
Digital Delights: October Calendar Page
Here is a digital scrapbook page I recently completed. I like to do calendar pages as I make my scrapbooks in chronological order. I use them as a good place to keep a reminder of some of the things for which I have no pictures or funny things the kids say/do. I usually add a few pictures to the page that won't fit in another layout somewhere in that month. Just a note: there are more entries ... Read More about Digital Delights: October Calendar Page
Hello Kitty Slumber Party: Part 1
Snowflake turned 10 last month. She wanted to have her first slumber party for her 10th birthday. We set up a fun evening for her and a few of her friends. I kept the number of girls small so that our first sleepover party would be a success for everyone. When the girls first arrived, they had some time to play together. After a while they each got to make their own pizza. I had out a topping bar ... Read More about Hello Kitty Slumber Party: Part 1
Animal Habitat Story
Toward the beginning of this year, Pumpkin started Moving Beyond the Page 5-7. It is our main curriculum. She has been working on a unit about habitats and homes. Recently we were talking about how sometimes animals and people change because of the habitat or what might happen if an animal were to get to the wrong habitat. She got to write a creative story about an animal that got to the wrong ... Read More about Animal Habitat Story
How To Make a Pillowcase
I'm starting to think that maybe I should have named my blog The Cheapskate Blog rather than The Real Thing with the Coake Family because I feel like so much of what I write is about how I did things to save money. As I write this it is Snowflake's 10th birthday(It will be published on another date). She is having her first slumber party next weekend. We found this great idea to use ... Read More about How To Make a Pillowcase