Many Miscellaneous Musings (and I need your input on something)

As of this past Friday, we are officially on Christmas break from homeschooling.

(woot!)

It’s pretty early, I know, but we are nearly halfway through most of our curriculum (and we’re certainly not halfway through the school year date-wise), so I’m feeling fine and dandy about taking our usual three-week Christmas break.

I’m very happy to have a little time off before Christmas to get things squared away and to do some fun things like baking pfeffernusse.

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Because I still regularly fail at making hyperlinks (despite having blogged for six years now. Ahem.), I forgot the http in the Schoola links I gave you in my last post.

I fixed em, but all you email subscribers probably got an email with broken links.

Sorry about that!

Here’s a for-real link to Schoola.   And when you make a purchase there, use code TFGHOLIDAY to get 30% off through 12/19.

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The calendar I made for Mr. FG’s grandma arrived!

I ordered it from AdoramaPix this year, and the print quality is just as marvelous as the AdoramaPix photo books.

The only thing I’d change is that I’d order a more matte paper next time.   The gloss is fine on the photo part, but the calendar side of the pages is really glossy too, and I think it would be hard to write on.

Fortunately, Mr. FG’s grandma doesn’t usually write on the photo calendars I give her…she just hangs them up on her bedroom door and enjoys the pictures each month.   So I think it will be fine.

I usually do one photo per month, but I mostly did collages this year so that I could give her more than 12 photos.   I think she’ll like it (because what grandma doesn’t want more photos of her grandchildren??)

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Zoe took her jeans off in a hurry the other day and broke the button.

Bummer.

But remember when I replaced the button on my jeans last year?

Well, the seller mistakenly sent me a package of small buttons first before sending me the correct size.   I kept the small ones (the seller didn’t want them back!), and they turned out to be perfect for Zoe’s jeans.

So, I snapped one on.

Good as new.

(More details about doing this are in my post about how to replace a broken jeans button.)

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Are you guys interested in a felting kit giveaway? The kits are super cute, but are a little more expensive than the ones from regular craft stores (especially if you use a 40% off coupon).

I love to help you all with your Christmas shopping, so I’m totally happy to do a giveaway if you want.

I can go either way…if you all are sick to death of giveaways, let me know!   Or if you are dying to win an adorable felting kit, say so.   😉

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Speaking of giveaways, we made Christmas cookies on Sunday, and you know what that means:

The annual guess-the-cookie-artist contest is coming up!

(The cookies in the contest photo are rarely this demure. In fact, they usually have eyeballs. 😉 )

I’ll take a photo of six cookies, one made by each person in my family, and the first person to correctly guess the cookie artists will win a $50 electronic Amazon gift card, purchased by me.

(This is harder than it sounds…last year, no one got it completely right, so the closest person won.)

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I think that’s all the miscellany I have for the moment.   Do weigh in about the felting kits, if you wouldn’t mind.