Good morning everybody! And Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! (Yes, it’s on a Monday in Canada—why not?) Today my thankfulness list includes some bullet-point blessings from the Five Fall Favorites blog party…
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Hi everybody! Welcome back for the final day of our Five Fall Favorites blog party! Can you believe we’re at the end of the week already? (Sniffs.) Well, at least…
Read moreHey, everybody! Welcome back again to the Five Fall Favorites blog party! Today’s party room leaves us pretty flexible—because we have the bikes! And even though the bikes start out…
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Have you ever bought a book, only to discover it wasn’t really about the topic you thought? Rudiments of Music by Michael L. Overholt was that type of experience for…
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Ann Kullberg’s Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step is a book I received as a Christmas present when I was a teenager. At the time, I was already into colored…
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Exploring the World of Chemistry was a course I chose to take for the sake of my dad’s grandfather. Great Grandpa (who I had the incredible privilege of knowing during…
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What on earth is gouache? I’ll have to admit, before I came across Jeremy Ford’s book, The Art of Gouache, your guess would have been as good as mine. Is…
Read moreHi everyone! Welcome back to the Five Fall Favorites blog party. As promised, our party room today is—blankets! If you don’t believe blankets are a room, you need a large…
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What kind of story do children actually enjoy? Hetty’s Thanksgiving by Isabella Alden is a story that got me thinking about this question recently. As adults, we place a lot…
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Of all 30 books we’ve selected for the Five Fall Favorites blog party, Tabby’s White Hyacinth has to be the one with the most unusual backstory. As we were trying…
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