A couple of days ago, I placed an add in the San Leandro Freecycle group looking for craft supplies. Now that the girls and I are crafting so much, supplies are running out quick. For those of you who don’t know freecycle, it’s basically a mailing list through which you give away the stuff you no longer need/want and get stuff from others who are in the same situation. You pretty much can give away anything through freecycle, I’ve seen half-empty bottles of shampoo being taken, though that’s not been the case for some of my stuff. C’est la vie.
You can also request items in freecycle, and my posting for craft supplies was answered by two great ladies who gave us very cool scrapbooking and general craft items. I want to thank them both very much here – I know the girls and I will have a great time with the material we got.
And hey, if you read this and have extra craft supplies there around, we’d love to get it 🙂
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Sometimes the spam I get is really weird. Today I got one for a “Photography class for Dentists” – it’s limited to 20 spaces. Well, I guess everyone should learn how to take a picture 🙂
I learned this “craft” from our daycare provider which had Camila do it when she was quite young (2?). All you need is some paint (we used a combination of acrylic and whatever paint you use to paint wood, what we had at home) and a rock. Fortunately, the lady who used to live in our house until she died (at 95!) was a huge rock collector (mind you, not “pretty” rocks, just random rocks she gathered in the California desserts), so we have quite a few rocks around. You can paint whichever designs you want on the rocks, both girls chose to do ladybugs, but later Camila did a bumble bee as well. Both girls had a great time doing it, and after they’re done I can put the rocks where they were before in the garden 🙂
Mika’s ladybug is the one above and Camila’s, of course, is the one below 🙂
I bought the Horton Hears a Who! – You to the Rescue!
We haven’t played the game with Camila yet, but I anticipate that she may have less fun than Mika. At 4 1/2 years old she’s probably not as deft as her sister, and gets frustrated easily if she can’t do something well (in that she is like her sister). Still, we will try 🙂
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