parenting

Thinking of different ways to say thank you for holidays or other occasions? I’m loving the printable calendar with coloring book-esque pages for P to personalize and then send off to his many grandparents. (Thanks, as usual, to Crafty Crow for such inspiring finds.) I also loved the painted picture frames at plum pudding. I always look at the not-so-pretty ones at Goodwill and think about how they could have another life.

Crafty Crow also shares a tutorial for making a kid’s drawing into a rubber stamp. My kid is in Montessori school. I need to get in with all of these super creative Montessori mamas, they seem like my kind!

crafting

Crafting a Green World offers up yet another cool yarn alternative — old cassette tapes! I particularly love the idea of knitting an iPod case from them

resources

Green Mom Finds posts the opposite of the Dirty Dozen, the 10 foods you don’t really need to buy organic:

1. Asparagus
2. Avocados
3. Bananas
4. Broccoli
5. Mango
6. Kiwi
7. Cabbage
8. Onions
9. Papaya
10. Pineapple

(I disagree on bananas because organic bananas are less likely to come from deforested rain forest, but that’s just me. Well, and organic broccoli just tastes *so* much better. Anyhow, I won’t quibble over every item!)

Mom is Broke shares a few more homemade cleaner recipes. And one that we tried this week that seems to work… Leave about 1/2 liter of cola in your toilet overnight and it will eat away at those stubborn stains.

Re-nest muses both on spiffying up an old cork board and donating corks to make more. We’re not big wine drinkers here in the land of beer, but I have more than one bulletin board hanging out in my home office that could use some prettying.

Ohdeeoh points out a good destination for the super-cute photos you took with your phone, only to realize they make terrible prints due to their low resolution: teeny tiles. I have so may cute shots of P when he was 2 living on my phone, with nowhere to go. The extra crafty types could even use them in a mosaic, I’d imagine.