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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 (who [...]

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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 alphabets [...]

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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. And [...]

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