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Monday, March 6, 2017

FZD School of Design Workshop 2013

Final from my workshop this pass weekend at FZD School of Design in Singapore. Around 6 hours of art, art talk, and bad jokes with Feng Zhu. Good times.

This is some shots of the later stages of the piece. Adding color, working out design and adding some narrative to the piece.

These are some early roughs. Showing some of the basics of how I work.

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Friday School

Each Friday morning we attend a prayer meeting at a friends house. The kids play while moms fellowship and pray. The meeting wraps up at about 12:30 just in time for lunch.

Last year, I had good intentions for our Fridays. My good intentions included getting up early to work on school before we left and finishing school once we returned home. Unfortunately, getting up early is not a talent I possess. And after we returned home and ate a little lunch there just wasnt enough time left in the day for a full day of school.

This year, I developed a plan. M, T, W, and Th we do school as usual...you know,bible, math, English, spelling, history, science...the works. But on Friday we will go to our prayer meeting, go to the library, and complete two subjects at home: music and art.

This accomplishes many things for us...Ive always wanted to take the kids to the library each week, but we could only manage to get there about once a month. Since we are all already dressed and out of the house, its not such a big deal to swing by the library.

Also, adding art and music to the end of a full school day was always difficult and rushed. Since these are the only two subjects we do on Friday, we can spend more time enjoying them.

Last April I purchased Mr. Everybodys Musical Apartment 3-book set at the Midwest Homeschool Convention. Its a simple way to teach young elementary students to read and play music notes. We decided to use a xylophone with this book that we purchased through amazon.

The kids learned three notes last Friday and each played their first song. Theyve been continuing to practice it throughout the week.

Weve chosen to study Mary Cassatt during the months of August and September. I plan to add a composer of the month as well, but havent done so yet. We brought home books from the library last week and looked at all the beautiful pictures.

Finally, G9 and A8 both are required to read two books independently a month a complete a book report on those books. The reports must be completed by the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month. Remember, how I told you about the new friend living in our home? Well, G9 and A8 both decided to read the above book for their first report.

Im allowing them to choose different styles of book reports, and this time they both wanted to give an oral report and create a poster.

A8 got rather creative with her poster. She did this all on her own!

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FREE Back to School Printables Set

Its a GREAT TIME to plan those BACK TO SCHOOL ACTIVITIES! And with the Amandas Parties To Go FREE BACK TO SCHOOL PRINTABLE SET, youll have so much fun while you are at it. This set is huge and packed full of so many adorable printable files. Use the CUPCAKE TOPPERS to make some classroom treats for the first day of school, use the treat bag toppers to dress up your childs school lunch, and be sure to use the 1ST DAY OF SCHOOL prints for your childs 1st day of school photos. I hope you will love this photos from Cris McGrath of Crissys Crafts who styled this adorable Back to School party using the printables.

Cris tells us more about her party styling.....

"Back to School is always an exciting time for my children. We have a "Mom and Me Day" to purchase the school supplies, special first day outfit, new shoes, new lunch bag and backpack.

This year is extra special since my son, Joey, will start Pre-K!! I want to celebrate Joeys milestone by having a Welcome/Back to School Party.

For this party, I tried to keep the snacks simple but creative. For the sweet table, we enjoyed some erasers (Stacker Mallows), pencils (twisters), chalk (marshmallow confetti), ABC chocolate letters, 123 chocolate numbers, bookworm cupcakes with the cutest cupcake toppers ever from Lynlees Petite Cakes, gum ball apples, apple cake pops and adorable apple sugar cookies from Sugar on Top.

Before they hit the sweet table, the children munched on apple shaped whole wheat ham and cheese sandwiches, bookworm grapes and apple juice. I set up the goodies on my daughters desk and used my sons vintage school desk to display some of their treats that they took home.

For the backdrop, I used a black bulletin board paper, embellished with a polka dot trimmer and the Back to School banner from the FREE Back to School printable. As favors, the youngest took home a metal school box from Lunchboxes.com full of goodies. The older children received a lunch sack from Jill Celebrations full of school supplies.

Thanks to Jill Celebrations chalk place mats, the kids played tic-tac-toe while munching on their snacks. What a fun and creative idea!

I also used the FREE Back to School printable to embellish their lunch boxes, snack bags, mason jars, goodie bags, and popcorn container.

One of my favorite DIY projects for this party is the crayon cupcake stand using crayons and toilet paper roll! So easy to make and definitely made the cupcakes stand out!

The kids had a ball playing memory game and back to school bingo, too. A fun way to kick of the school year! "

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FREEBIE PRINTABLE Back To School Set Includes:

- Back to School sign

- 2" Welcome Back circles

- 2" Party circles for cupcake toppers

- 2.5" Polka dot background circles

- 4 Pennants for centerpiece picks

- Chalkboard "Back to School" tags

- Chalkboard "Snack time" tags

- Food/School Supply labels - fold over

- "Welcome Back" tags

- "Welcome Back" fold over treat bag toppers

- Polka dot water bottle wraps

- Apple and bookworm cut-outs

- "Welcome Back" banner

- Signs for first day of school photos: Pre-K through 6th grade

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DOWNLOAD THE

BACK TO SCHOOL FREEBIE PRINTABLE SET

VENDORS:

Cris McGrath of Crissys Crafts: Party styling, photography, food and crafting

Amandas Parties To Go: Back To School Printable Set Freebie

Lynlees Petite Cakes: Fondant Bookworm Cupcake Toppers

*Golden*: Personalized Tees

Sugar on Top: Apple cookie

Celebrations by Jill: Fabric Bunting, Chalk Placemat, Lunch Sack

Whimsical Printables: Mason Jar Toppers and Glittery Utensils

Lunchboxes.com: Metal boxes

Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby and Michaels: Party supplies

Target: School bus container and pencil holder

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Free Printables for Back to School

Its time again to start buying new backpacks and school supplies… those lazy days of summer are nearing an end. To help you send the kids off to their new classrooms with a smile on their face, we have a great FREEBIE for you! Its a BACK TO SCHOOL printable set and its FREE!

This set is huge and packed full of so many adorable printable files. There are CUPCAKE TOPPERS to help you make some classroom treats for the first day of school and WELCOME BACK TAGS to decorate as well. The TREAT BAG TOPPERS can be used to dress up your childs school lunch, and be sure to grab the 1ST DAY OF SCHOOL prints to make adorable 1st day of school photos. You will find a million uses for these cute designs throughout the school year. Thank you Cris McGrath of Crissys Crafts for styling this sweet Back to School party using the printables.