Category Archives: good laughs

a time to cry, a time to laugh

March 23, 2011 – 10:30 am

Longtime readers of Craft Nectar know that I pretty much live for pranks and practical jokes. The more elaborate the better. This year, however, it’s really hard for me to be thinking about April Fool’s pranks given the images I see coming out of Japan. Honestly, I know I should move on with my life [...]

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borrowed scenery

May 29, 2010 – 12:44 am

Butch, our neighbor across the street frequently tells me that between the two of us, he’s the smarter one. When I look out our window toward his house I see this: And when he looks out his window at our house he sees this: “And I don’t have to do a thing,” he laughs. Help [...]

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our daughter got accepted to Chore Camp!

April 1, 2010 – 2:28 pm

There’s a lot of excitement around our house as our daughter received her acceptance letter to Chore Camp! We submitted her application a few months ago and have been waiting for the mail every day to see if her acceptance letter had arrived. Finally it came today. Here’s what it looks like:  

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my favorite April Fools prank (of late)

March 15, 2010 – 12:35 pm

Around here my daughter Sophie and I are already planning our April Fools pranks. Bill never remembers the date (even though it’s his sister’s birthday) so he’s always on the receiving end of our pranks. My daughter and I have different pranking styles. I go for one great gesture and she wants to fit as [...]

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get a clue

July 13, 2009 – 10:56 pm

Well, we all survived the Nancy Drew Mystery Birthday Sleepover. No tears and no trips to the Emergency Room. We decided that the secret to the party would be in having a series of clues that the girls had to decipher in the dark. Each had a flashlight or headlamp and scurried around the house [...]

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