Saturday 2 November 2013

HSMJ - The Zoo and Learning to Cook

In my life this week…
Gosh my kitchen has looked like a bomb has hit it for the last week.  I just do not seem to be getting a hold of it.  I guess that's what happens when you are learning a new way of preparing meals and trying out new things on a daily and meal by meal moment!  I will conquer this though I am determined.  On the upside though I am enjoying the new tastes and textures I am exploring.
TL - Waiting for the zoo bus
TR - Exploring giraffe bones
BL - Meeting the serval behind the scenes
BR - Berry / Yoghurt smoothie and Singing Canary

In our home school this week…
  • This week was a slow one.  We spent the week finishing off anything and everything that we hadn't completed.  
  • Rediscovered our library cards.
  • Borrowed some books on France, Mexico and Norway.
  • Spent the day at the zoo.
Helpful homeschooling tips or advice to share…
Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…
  • This week we have done the usual. (Tennis & Kelly Sports)
  • Enjoyed a surprise 40th birthday party for a friend.
  • Had two special guests stay over night last night while their parents spent some time away in celebration of their tenth wedding anniversary.
My favourite thing this week was…
Questions/thoughts I have…
  • What's your favourite way of following a blog ?
  • Do you think this blog needs a new background ?
Things I’m working on…
In Bloggy world I’m reading…
I’m cooking…
I’m grateful for…
A photo, video, link, or quote to share…
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Blessings

Chareen

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Thursday 31 October 2013

Scratch Art {Virtual Fridge}

This Week


I loved doing these at school so it was time to introduce this technique to Sir N.  He loved doing it too.  We did this over a couple of days using Colorix. 
 We started by dividing a blank page into areas to colour in.  Do not use black when colouring in the background. We left it overnight to dry/set if you use it straight away the colour scratches off too.
When ready to scratch your picture. Colour with the black and scratch, if you let the black set then you can't do the scratch picture.  Have some fun together and see what you can draw

Featured This Week
 

This weeks feature is from over at He Cares for You.  Janis has done a complete tutorial for you on Mixed Media Tadeo Turtle.

Your Turn

I invite you to take some photo's of your children's artistic pursuits put them in a post and link up with me I would love to come over and see the wonderful art your children have enjoyed doing.
Virtual Fridge Link Up

Blessings
Chareen




The Virtual Fridge a weekly art meme where we can hang our children's art on a virtual fridge. This meme was started by Jennifer over at A Glimpse of our Life who kindly invited three other bloggers to co-host this weekly meme.

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Wednesday 30 October 2013

The Force Has Arrived


A couple of weeks ago I shared a link to a FREE book on Amazon called The Fourth. Kingdom

Last week the sequel launched. The Force  is currently available FREE for your Kindle from now until 2 Nov. These two books are a part of The Kingdom Chronicles by co-authors Joyce and Alexandra Swann.
Details
  • Paperback: 358 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 21, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1493524607
  • ISBN-13: 978-1493524600
  • Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Kindle
  • Paperback

About The Force
Someone is murdering the world’s most beautiful women—over and over and over. When Jarrod and Joshua Sinclair are called in to consult with the FBI about the Hollywood Starlet murders, they immediately suspect their old nemesis Josef Helmick of creating clones of famous women for a visiting Saudi prince. Wasting no time, they hire retired detective Fred Kowalski and send him to Dubai to uncover Josef’s base of operations and build a case against him for the murders. But Fred soon discovers that Helmick Enterprises is harboring a secret much darker than human trafficking. Fred must stop Helmick before he resurrects an ancient, diabolical Force in order to bring the entire human race under his control.
This book has it all, for me it was a real sit on the edge of your seat read. I just could not put it down. I finished it in less than two days. It is an A+ Christian Sci-fi thriller and would fit very well on your book shelf amongst your Frank Peretti and Left Behind books. The author's have done a magnificent job of building a plot of intrigue, mystery, power, justice, mercy and suspense with a twist at every corner. It is a vision of the future and possible outcome of the technological age of cloning ...

About the Authors:

Joyce and Alexandra Swann are mother and daughter. Joyce homeschooled her ten children from the first grade through master’s degrees. She is a well-known author and speaker on the subject of homeschooling. For nearly a decade she was a popular columnist for Practical Homeschooling Magazine. She now blogs regularly on parenting, homeschooling, and Christian lifestyle issues.

Joyce and Alexandra have co-authored two other novels, The Fourth Kingdom and The Twelfth Juror, both of which were published in 2010. Joyce’s personal story of her experiences raising and educating her family is chronicled in Looking Backward: My Twenty-Five Years as a Homeschooling Mother, published in February of 2011. Her novel, The Warrior, which tells the story of one woman’s ten year prayer vigil for a man she has never met, was released in May of 2012. She is also the author of two children’s books, Tales of Pig Isle and A Horse Called Lightning/A House of Clowns (The McAloons), which began as stories that she told to entertain her grandchildren.

Alexandra is author of No Regrets: How Homeschooling Earned me a Master’s Degree at Age Sixteen and Writing for Today. She has been self-employed for over fourteen years and was the 2011 Chairwoman of the Board of the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. She writes a regular blog, Paying for Protection, about the consequences of over-regulation and over-reaching government. Her novel The Planner, which is the prequel to The Chosen, was published in June of 2012.

You can read  Interview with an Author~Joyce & Alexandra Swann over at Following in His Footsteps.

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Blessings
Chareen
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