Anouncing the birth of Home School Chicks

http://www.homeschoolchicks.com/

Yesterday was their official hatching and to celebrate their birthday they have:

• A linky for homeschoolers on Pinterest.
• A Totally Awesome Homeschool Blog Roll
• Do you host a linky party ?  Add your party to the list.

There are five chicks in the nest

1. How to Chick is Heidi from How To Homeschool.
2. Organized Chick is Heather from Teaching My 3.
3. Fun Chick is Tamara from Teaching with TLC
4. Reading Chick is Annie from The Moffatt Girls.
5. Math Chick is Cindy from love 2 learn 2 day

Pop on over and say hello as well as follow this site for great HomeSchool support.

Blessings
Chareen

Picasso Inspired Collage from Practical Pages

I discovered today that Pinning it DOWN has been pinned to the wall. Why you ask ?
A note from Pam: Ah, doing what's right. Sometimes it is just so hard to do, and this is one of those times. It is with much regret that we announce that we will not be doing another Pinning It Down. Over the past few days it has come to our attention that many pinners are growing more and more concerned about the legality of Pinterest and choosing to delete their Pinterest accounts. This includes a number of the people who have participated with us in the past...... pop on over to Pams to read her full post on this issue.

Today Sir N and I decided to tackle a project from my Artist Studies board and do a Picasso Inspired Collage from Nadene over at Practical Pages 

Source: practicalpages.wordpress.com via Chareen on Pinterest

 Sir N's project

We had a lot of fun together.  Some parts Sir N found hard but overall he is proud of his piece.

Pop on over to Practical Pages where Nadene has provided a great PDF download and step by step to accomplish this project at home.

Blessings

Chareen 

Linking with
Grateful for Grace: What We're Learning
 

Pinning it DOWN - Paper Snowflakes

Welcome to the third Pinning it Down Tuesday! Do you find yourself pinning projects to Pinterest, but rarely getting around to doing them? Do you need a bit of encouragement to make some of those projects come to life? Join Pam and Sarah every Tuesday for the Pinning it Down link-up, where we're making a Pinterest project happen in our homes every week. This week is hosted over at Pams

This week I decided to tackle something from my Kids Craft Ideas Board. We made paper snowflakes. The original idea came from Michele Made Me: Reader Question: How do you cut your snowflakes ?  Her step by step tutorial is excellent.
Michele has some excellent ideas of what you can do with your snowflakes.

• Junkmail Snowflakes Tutorial ❈ The Wall Blizzard 
• Junkmail Snowflakes Tutorial ❈ Gift Toppers
• Junkmail Snowflakes Tutorial ❈ Lanterns 

Source: michelemademe.com via Chareen on Pinterest

The Process

Completed Paper Snowflakes

Blessings
Chareen
Photo Collages done with the FREE software Photoscape . Tutorial over at Great Fun 4 Kids.
Are you ready to play along? Here's how the link-up works:

1. Choose a project from one of your Pinterest pinboards and make it happen. Blog a little about it. Remember, it doesn't have to be elaborate- we just want to see what you've been up to! 
2. Make sure you link back to Pams somewhere in your post so others can find us and play along. Feel free to grab our Pinning it Down graphic if you'd like to add it to your post. Also, don't forget proper pinning etiquette and try to include a link back the original idea whenever possible. We want to be sure that cool idea credit is given to the proper person. 
3. Link up over at Pam's . Make sure you're sending us to your actual post, and not to your general blog address. You can add your link all the way through Friday, so if you haven't gotten a chance to work on any of your pins yet this week, you're not too late

Pinning it down {4} - Bread Bag Clip Cable Labels

Welcome to the third Pinning it Down Tuesday! Do you find yourself pinning projects to Pinterest, but rarely getting around to doing them? Do you need a bit of encouragement to make some of those projects come to life? Join Pam and Sarah every Tuesday for the Pinning it Down link-up, where we're making a Pinterest project happen in our homes every week. This week is hosted over at Pams

This week I decided to tackle something from my Organisation Board.  I really liked the look of the bread clip cord labels. The original idea is found at Apartment Therapy Label Cords At Both Ends for Maximum Organization. I am really pleased I finally did this. I just need to collect more bread bag clips !  I didn't have a permanent marker so I used my Letratag.  They have another interesting post titled: 10 Things you already own to Wrangle and Label Cords.

Blessings

Photo Collages done with the FREE software Photoscape . Tutorial over at Great Fun 4 Kids.


Are you ready to play along? Here's how our link-up works:
1. Choose a project from one of your Pinterest pinboards and make it happen. Blog a little about it. Remember, it doesn't have to be elaborate- we just want to see what you've been up to!


2. Make sure you link back here somewhere in your post so others can find us and play along. Feel free to grab our Pinning it Down graphic if you'd like to add it to your post. Also, don't forget proper pinning etiquette and try to include a link back the original idea whenever possible. We want to be sure that cool idea credit is given to the proper person.


3. Link up over at Pam's . Make sure you're sending us to your actual post, and not to your general blog address. You can add your link all the way through Friday, so if you haven't gotten a chance to work on any of your pins yet this week, you're not too late.

Pinning it DOWN {3} - Menu Planner

Welcome to the Fifth Pinning it Down Tuesday! Do you find yourself pinning projects to Pinterest, but rarely getting around to doing them? Do you need a bit of encouragement to make some of those projects come to life? Join Pam and Sarah every Tuesday for the Pinning it Down link-up, where we're making a Pinterest project happen in our homes every week. This week is hosted over at Sarahs

In week 3 Ann from Building my Catholic Home and in  week 4 Laurie from Keeping it Simple posted their versions of the Menu board from Pinterest.

I have not been a menu planner but loved the idea and wanted to give it a go.  So this week on Pinning it DOWN I made something for me :)






The orginal idea was shared by Little Birdie Secrets over at Make and Takes: Wipe Off Weekly Menu Planner.

I purchased a certificate frame from The Reject Shop
Used Excel to create a weekly dinner planning sheet.
Chose a sheet of pretty paper from my Scrap booking stack
Cut it to fit.
Printed my menu sheet on it.
Framed
Done !








Blessings

Menu plan gifts

Photo Collages done with the FREE software Photoscape . Tutorial over at Great Fun 4 Kids.

Are you ready to play along? Here's how our link-up works:
1. Choose a project from one of your Pinterest pinboards and make it happen. Blog a little about it. Remember, it doesn't have to be elaborate- we just want to see what you've been up to!

2. Make sure you link back here somewhere in your post so others can find us and play along. Feel free to grab our Pinning it Down graphic if you'd like to add it to your post. Also, don't forget proper pinning etiquette and try to include a link back the original idea whenever possible. We want to be sure that cool idea credit is given to the proper person.

3. Link up over at Sarah's . Make sure you're sending us to your actual post, and not to your general blog address. You can add your link all the way through Friday, so if you haven't gotten a chance to work on any of your pins yet this week, you're not too late.

Pinning it DOWN {2} - Snow Globes

Welcome to the third Pinning it Down Tuesday! Do you find yourself pinning projects to Pinterest, but rarely getting around to doing them? Do you need a bit of encouragement to make some of those projects come to life? Join Pam and Sarah every Tuesday for the Pinning it Down link-up, where we're making a Pinterest project happen in our homes every week. This week is hosted over at Pams


Sir N and I along with some friends made Snow Globes from a tutorial from over at Our Best Bites.

Source: ourbestbites.com via Chareen on Pinterest

• Sir N and I upcycled baby food jars.
• Our first snow globe we used far too much glitter.
• I found that around 1/16 teaspoon is about right.
• We had lots of fun and the snow globes are sitting next Sir N's bed.

Blessings

Photo Collages done with the FREE software Photoscape . Tutorial over at Great Fun 4 Kids.

Are you ready to play along? Here's how our link-up works:
1. Choose a project from one of your Pinterest pinboards and make it happen. Blog a little about it. Remember, it doesn't have to be elaborate- we just want to see what you've been up to!

2. Make sure you link back here somewhere in your post so others can find us and play along. Feel free to grab our Pinning it Down graphic if you'd like to add it to your post. Also, don't forget proper pinning etiquette and try to include a link back the original idea whenever possible. We want to be sure that cool idea credit is given to the proper person.

3. Link up over at Pam's . Make sure you're sending us to your actual post, and not to your general blog address. You can add your link all the way through Friday, so if you haven't gotten a chance to work on any of your pins yet this week, you're not too late.

Pinning it Down {1} Peg frogs & Finger Firefighters

Welcome to the third Pinning it Down Tuesday! Do you find yourself pinning projects to Pinterest, but rarely getting around to doing them? Do you need a bit of encouragement to make some of those projects come to life? Join Pam and Sarah every Tuesday for the Pinning it Down link-up, where we're making a Pinterest project happen in our homes every week. 


Sir N and I chose two pins to Pin down this week:

This is our first Pin:

Source: flickr.com via Chareen on Pinterest

Our first Pin is this one from a flicker album by Molas & Co .

We had a look through the different ideas and then settled on The Frog and The Sea Inside pegs to try.


We had loads of fun trying this one.
This one was a little more tricky because there was no tutorial and if you look carefully at the photo's they are made of wood.  So I improvised.

• Sir N painted our pegs.
• I took a screen shot of the peg we wanted to do.
• Put it into a word document and printed them off.
• Next we cut the pieces out and lamenated them.
• Cut them out and then glued them onto the pegs.
• Loads of fun and we can't wait to show Paul tonight.

The Second Pin we did is :

Source: tippytoecrafts.blogspot.com via Chareen on Pinterest

This Pin is from Tippytoe Crafts: Five Little Firefighters.

This one was super easy and quick to do.
The tutorial on Tippytoe Crafts was excellent.

• We painted Sir N's hand, made a hand print,
• Next I drew around some 10 cent coins to get the round heads.
• To make the hats I drew around the 10c coin and cut the base straight.
• Next Sir N glued the bits on and used texta to draw the rest !

What will you be trying from Pinterest this week ?

Blessings

Photo Collages done with the FREE software Photoscape . Tutorial over at Great Fun 4 Kids.

Are you ready to play along? Here's how our link-up works:
1. Choose a project from one of your Pinterest pinboards and make it happen. Blog a little about it. Remember, it doesn't have to be elaborate- we just want to see what you've been up to!

2. Make sure you link back here somewhere in your post so others can find us and play along. Feel free to grab our Pinning it Down graphic if you'd like to add it to your post. Also, don't forget proper pinning etiquette and try to include a link back the original idea whenever possible. We want to be sure that cool idea credit is given to the proper person.

3. Link up over at Sarah's . Make sure you're sending us to your actual post, and not to your general blog address. You can add your link all the way through Friday, so if you haven't gotten a chance to work on any of your pins yet this week, you're not too late.