Category Archives: paper arts

last-minute father’s day card: your street on a Monopoly property card

June 18, 2011 – 10:23 pm

It’s been a crazy week here on Carpenter Avenue. Although we adore our 1914 Craftsman Bungalow, we started day-dreaming a week ago about moving to the northern part of our village so our daughter would be able to walk to both the middle school and high school. I casually started looking last weekend and happened [...]

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homemade adoption announcements

May 24, 2011 – 9:10 pm

May 30 is Gotcha Day in our family. Nine years ago, we held our daughter for the first time (thus the term “Gotcha Day” in the adoption community) and we became a family. Like most adoptive moms, I had always expected to have children the way most people do. There’s a pregnancy that lasts 40 [...]

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last-minute valentine

February 14, 2011 – 12:59 am

My heart is always there but sometimes the hands of the clock move faster than my own in getting Valentines made. So at some point after the dishes are done and the bedtime hugs have been given I hungrily claim a moment to make a Valentine that’s long on thought but short on time. I [...]

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folding a memory box

May 23, 2010 – 4:04 pm

Longtime readers of Craft Nectar may remember my post last December on the unexpected death of my dear friend Tina Lillig. Tina was the National Director of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program in the US. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Good Shepherd program, it’s an amazing Montessori-based Christian education [...]

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mom and daughter book club journals

February 25, 2010 – 3:34 pm

My 8-year-old daughter and I started a book club this year. I suggested it because some of the books being read by our daughter at school were a little violent and depressing for our family’s taste. (I kind of lost it when she was reading aloud a part in a book where two children had [...]

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