Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step—Book Review
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…
Read moreAnn 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…
Read moreExploring 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…
Read moreWhat 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 moreDo you remember the first hand-sewing project you ever did? If memory serves, my first project was a very ungainly doll who never received her final touches—including hair! Unless, of…
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…
Read moreWhat 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…
Read moreOf 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…
Read moreTired of children’s Thanksgiving books that forget the true meaning of the holiday? Stories that hinge on a generic message of “be thankful” without any reference to the true Giver…
Read moreA Pioneer Thanksgiving by Barbara Greenwood is a story that has been part of my family’s Thanksgiving celebration since I was a child. It was the special accompaniment to “cranberry…
Read moreWhat would you do if you were punished for something you didn’t do? And were expected to be sorry for a fault you didn’t commit? Would you sulk and feel…
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