32 Square Tote
This bag is a sample from Rami King’s presentation at the 2009 ASG Conference. I thought it was a good size and would be a good project for Chunguita & Pulguito. It is just squares. How hard could it be? Well, it isn’t easy to construct the pattern.

Bag Pattern
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Chunguita and I had an evening alone, so we decided to make these cookies. The peanut butter cookie recipe seems incomplete. It worked out fine for us because I bought sugar cookie dough, peanut butter cookie dough, and chocolate chip cookie dough. The chocolate cookie recipe is DIVINE! I [...]

Chunguita’s final project for kindergarten was a papier mache of Rancho Las Positas. I think I did a good job. I got an A+.

The inspiration was from the Livermore Heritage Guild.

The initial sketch.

The preliminary model.

The model from above.

And from the side.

Santa put a science experiment in each of the kiddos stockings. Be Amazing Toys produces them. And I happen to know that Santa shops at The Golden Apple Learning Store.
We started these experiments a few days ago, and the kids are still fascinated by them. Both were along the lines of what [...]

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The kids really like perler beads, but I made this one.

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This year, Chunguita and Pulguito both entered items into the fair. They were on display in the Young California Building during the fair.

Won’t someone make a cake like this for me for my birthday?

One of the free craft activities was making horses.