A Creative Log & Other Notes on Life
From the monthly archives:
If you live in Orange County or ever have plans to come down for a visit (Disneyland anyone?) you’re going to want to check out my list of the top 12 Thrift Stores in the OC over at Just Spotted. I probably should keep them all to myself, but I’m hoping the thrifting gods will […]
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A little over a week ago, I ran in what might have been the funnest. race. EVER. 12 bloggers, 200 miles in 36 hours. We may not have been the fastest (in fact we may have come in third to last just barely beating out one 2-man team), but boy did we enjoy the journey. […]
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Today, as is tradition, the kids sang a few songs to the moms at church. One of the songs was one I hadn’t heard before called “That’s my Mother”. Many of the lyrics describe mothers based on the everyday tasks they might traditionally perform. And while my girls were adorably cute singing it, a big […]
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Our simple Cinco de Mayo celebration today consisted of wearing our Olvera Street garb, making cajeta & cinnamon sugar flour tortilla chips, & talking about our Mexican heritage. picture taken summer 2009 – Baby Brother’s first guayabera to match his grandpa. We also had fun watching a Cinco de Mayo dance video I made of […]
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Last week’s second grade art lesson was all about shape. Facts about shapes: they are flat, they are made from “closed” lines, some have names (triangle, square, circle). Shapes that have names are called geometric. Shapes that don’t have names are called organic or irregular shapes. Then I introduced the kids to Piet Mondrian, Dutch […]
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