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The Gift

June 5, 2009

For Rio’s fifth birthday I made her a gift: a fabric pencil case that rolls up. It has little pockets for scissors and a ruler and a glue stick and sharpener, and holds about two dozen colored pencils (and a few regular #2s). I worked very hard on this, getting sewing lessons from a friend [...]

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Alphabetical Objects

May 30, 2009

I ran across this page of interesting alphabets the other day. It’s not exactly for kids. One of the alphabets was made by clothespinning flesh into letter shapes. I personally do not want to put that idea in my five-year-old’s head. But a lot of the alphabets are charming, and very kid friendly. There are [...]

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Somerville Open Studios

May 1, 2009

SOS is upon us, and if you’re on the fence about going with your kids, consider this: My brood and I were invited to a sneak peek at Rachel Silber’s studio. We went and admired her truly admirable prints, oil paintings and creative boxes. We called dibs on one of her cool artist trading cards. [...]