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Aug. 24, 2009

Great Giveaway Blog ~ Loaded with tons of kids gear to win!

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I wanted to take moment and share about a local island gal that I've come to know online that has started a fun giveaway blog... hence the Fun & Funky Mommy blog name *grin*.

As a former children's consignment store owner and a mom she's always loved children's stuff. Be it toys, clothes or neat little inventions to make daily life easier, safer or just more fun she's been searching for it and she's finding it!!

So she started her new blog earlier this year to get the word out about all of the great items that both big and small companies are making and especially to share with everyone what all of those very talented mom's out there are making. The icing on the cake though is that she's offering most of it FREE to all of you through giveaways!

A few of her current giveaways are:

Easy Daisies Magnetic Fridge Schedules..... No Slippy Hair Clippy hair clips

Soft Star Shoes

Babble Baby Wear

And of course some of my RosyUndPosy cloth sandwich and snack bags :)

So make sure you hop on over and check out all of these great giveaways plus more and don't forget to check out her sidebar because there are loads of great coupon codes to use as well!

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Aug. 20, 2009

Fun Quiz Time

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I haven't done a quiz in quite some time so when I saw it over at eclecticeducation's blog I just had to try it out *grin*. Turns out I have quite an eclectic way of speaking to! Only half of the words that come out of my mouth are normal and the others are slightly wacky since I'm not even American. LOL
Let me know how your turns out!

You Speak General American English!

50% General American English

25% Yankee

20% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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Aug. 8, 2009

Hairstyle Fun ~ Coronet or Crown Braiding

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L's hair is now past her waist and it can't be left down anymore. It's either in her food or flying in her eyes and just generally in the way *grin*. So with all of this hot weather we have been having I've been playing around with it and practicing my french braiding :)

Normally I just do a plain french braid straight down her back but I adore the old fashioned crown or coronet french braiding that braids the hair in a circle on top of the head. At first I didn't realize that there was a trick to getting a perfect circle around the top of her head so I french braided it like normal, taking hair from both sides of the braid and just making sure that I continued around the perimeter of her head to keep it pretty circular like in the top photo.

But then I did some digging around on YouTube and found some great videos on coronet braiding and learned the secret trick! *grin*. It's called a Lace Braid. Instead of taking hair from both sides of the french braid like you normally do you only take hair from the bottom side of the braid and leave the hair in the center of the head alone. Where you would normally grab an additional chunk of hair from the center of the head you just take that strand and cross it over while trying to keep the center hair nice and smooth. As you can see in my photos above and below I need to work on the neatness factor. LOL

It creates a beautiful braid that pops up slightly and creates a perfect pocket along the inside so that when you have finished your braid you can swirl it around the original braid and tuck it nicely in underneath :) I tacked it in with a few bobby pins so that it wouldn't come loose and it held beautifully for her all day and she's pretty tough to keep looking tidy with all of the princess and fairy costume changes she makes in a day!

I've linked to a couple of the videos that I found helpful below in case you are new to lace braiding like me and you really have to check out this site called Dreamweaver Braiding!! It has some of the most gorgeous braids and instructions to :)

This one shows the difference between French Braiding & Dutch Braiding. French braids blend into your hair and Dutch braids actually pop out of the hair for an entirely different look.

This one shows how to do a Coronet Braid using the lace braid technique. She actually does it in a Dutch braid but I used the regular french braid method for the lace braid I did on L in the above photo and it helped immensely to see it in action.

And this last one is a fun one showing an Elizabethan hair taping hair style :) I'm going to try this one next as it's super cute with the ribbon wound around the braid.

Happy braiding!

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Jul. 29, 2009

Check Out My New Blog Template!!

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I'm so excited... I finally completed my blog makeover that I started last year *grin* I know that some of you only read your favorite blogs through RSS feeds or Google Reader so I thought I'd write a little entry and invite you to pop over to my blog and let me know how you like it :)

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Jul. 27, 2009

Popsicle Binoculars ~ Craft

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L was watching a kids show a while back and they were making toilet paper tube binoculars and ever since then she has been dying to make them *grin*. This is one unbelievably easy craft but I put a bit of a spin on it by using some brightly colored popsicle sticks to decorate them with plus they make them really sturdy!!

Supplies needed:

Hot glue gun
Toilet paper tubes
Colored popsicle sticks

Our popsicle sticks were a bit larger than our toilet paper tubes so I snipped them all to the same size as the tubes and we hot glued each stick individually around the tube making sure the snipped straight edges of the popsicle sticks were flush with one end of the tube :)

After we had completed gluing our popsicle sticks to two of the toilet paper tubes we ran a line of glue down one of the popsicle sticks like above....

and then stuck another one to it to form our binoculars. They are so darn cute with their bright colors and the popsicle sticks make them stiff enough that M who's 3 can play rough with them and so far they are holding up like new! If he can use them without wrecking them then it's a good thing because he's a bit of a destructo! LOL

I see you :)

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Feb. 15, 2009

Our Valentine's Day Party

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Yesterday we had a fun little Valentine's Day party at my moms house trading our handmade valentines with each other and enjoying a super yummy dessert that I had brought along to share :)

Mmmm, good to the last bite *grin*.

Blessings,

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Feb. 14, 2009

Happy Valentine's Day

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Wishing you all a very special Valentine's Day!
Blessings,

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Feb. 12, 2009

Our Valentines Have Arrived!

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We had a very special surprise in the mail the other day.... some of our valentine cards had arrived!!! The kids have been trying to wait patiently for them to arrive but you know how that is.... they must think the mailman drives a rocket ship. LOL.

Sandpiper's children made these fantastic valentine cards for L, K & Baby M. They are so cute :)

And she even spoiled me! Look at the wonderful tags and sayings that she sent to me. Thanks so much for swapping with us :)

And this special valentine is from Coffee Mom's daughter which L had a special swap with :) She was just thrilled when she pulled it out and found her initial on it. She has hung it on her bedroom door so that we all know it's her room *grin*. Thanks so much for the fabulous swap!

We are waiting for one more package from another special bloggy friend and I can't wait to share it with you when it arrives :)

Blessings,

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Feb. 2, 2009

Valentine Packages Are In The Mail

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Well we made it on time! LOL. I wasn't so sure this morning that our Valentine cards were going to make it to the post office on time. The glitter glue was so thick in some spots that it took a little longer than normal for it to dry and I thought that I was going to have to take the heat gun to it to speed it up *grin*.

Now that our Valentine project is completed it's time to jump right into birthday mode! K's birthday is this Friday and I'm still not quite sure what we are doing for his party :) Our homeschool group is meeting at a local bakery in town for a field trip that day and the kids are going to decorate a cake together... a birthday cake for K :) He has no idea that we are doing it and when it is all finished we are going to sing happy birthday to him and have him blow out the candles. He is going to be so surprised!

He also wants to have some of his friends come to the house though as well so I'm thinking that probably the day after will be a good time for a little party since we will be to busy on the actual day and will end up just having a small family party with cake and presents. Then instead of buying another cake I think I'll make some cupcakes and let all of the kids decorate them themselves and K can blow out a couple of candles on his *grin*, that's probably more fun than just getting cake anyways. Nothing like mucking around with icing and sprinkles, right?!

Blessings,

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Feb. 1, 2009

Making Valentines

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We're having an afternoon of glitter fest *grin*. We have a lovely stack of Valentine cards just getting their final dusting of glitter and then they are going to be packaged up and shipped off into the mail to a couple of very wonderful bloggy friends for a Valentine card swap that we are doing :)

It has quickly spiraled into a huge project though now that they kids are in the thick of making them. They want to make them for every single person that we've ever met.... I'm not kidding! LOL. I never imagined that we would actually run out of supplies :)

How about you? Any special Valentine projects in the makings?

Blessings,

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Jan. 11, 2009

A B See Meme ~ 'C' is for....

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'C' is for Cards

Here is our completed handmade paper that the kids and I made a couple of days ago. The kids were amazed with the results and I must admit that even I was surprised at how well it turned out :) Our screen was 8 x 10 inches so we were able to cut the finished paper in half and make two small note cards out of it and the inside is nice and smooth for writing. Must have been from all of the sponging we did to it to get the excess moisture out of it before hanging it to dry :) I can't wait to try it again and the kids are already collecting scrap papers into a pile for next time *grin*.

Check out more ABSee meme pics here.

Blessings,

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Jan. 6, 2009

L's Christmas Book Swap Package

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L has been waiting for her Christmas book swap package and I think that she was just about to have a fit if it didn't show up... like now *grin*. Well the wait is over! A big box arrived in the mail for her today and boy was she excited :) Inside she found hot chocolate, pencils, jewelry, a princess coloring and activity book, a fabulous Curious George story and her all time favorite toy, a my little pony. Our swap family, Under the Big Blue Sky made her day. Thanks so much you guys!!! It was a pleasure swapping with you and your little girl :)

Blessings,

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Jan. 5, 2009

A B See Meme ~ 'B' is for ....

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'B' is for BEAR!!!

You know, the statuesque ones that you can rough and tumble with....

and pretend that you fought and survived a mauling incident with *grin*.

But definitely not the 'Dennis the Menis' kind that we remember all to well! LOL.
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Blessings,

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Jan. 5, 2009

Anti-Social ~ A Comedy of Homeschoolers

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Oh my goodness this is hilarious!! Three homeschooled boys that are pretending to be socially inept. The funny thing is though that people may think this is what homeschooled kids turn out like, but the truth is there were a lot of boys just like this in public school to! LOL. Their short video is below and good for a giggle *grin*.
Blessings,

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Dec. 30, 2008

The Year In Review ~ Sentence Meme

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Small World is hosting a fun meme 'The Year in Review' and I thought that I would play along :)

How to Play.
1) Look back to your archives for 2008.
2) Collect the first sentence you wrote every month for the whole year. (This doesn't have to be the literal first day of the month--just the first post.)
3) Entertain us on your blog, link back here, and post a comment here with the link to your blog. (And if you're blogless, just remember the first sentence you spoke every month for the whole year and post it here.)
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~Below is my year in review~

January 1st

There's nothing like having a party to kick off the new year!

February 1st

I thought today I'd take you on a virtual trip with me into the next town :)

March 1st

We had a very quiet day today :)

April 1st

I think I was more concerned for Baby M than the cat (see those ears flattened right back against his head!) even though it looks a little precarious for poor old kitty. *grin*

May 10th

Wishing all of you a wonderful Mother's Day!

June 26th

Yesterday when I returned home from running errands in town I found one of the doors on my china cabinet open.

July 1st

Just wanted to share with you that I posted a delicious recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Jam made without artificial pectin over on my nature blog ~ Nature Notes From Above.

August 2nd

I really love all of the Montessori blogs and ideas that I have come across lately and have been jotting down ideas on a little notepad next to my computer :)

September 1st

Yesterday my best friend surprised me with a visit!

October 2nd

Okay where was I?? Oh yes, now I remember *grin*..... the pooper.

November 1st

Last night on Halloween eve was Dh's birthday :)

December 2nd

A little while back we signed up for a Christmas card swap on the Kids Craft Weekly website. We had to make 10 handmade Christmas cards of any type and send them to 10 random swap partners :)

Hope you had fun traveling down memory lane with me *grin* and if you share your year in review leave me a comment and let me know :)
Blessings,

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Dec. 30, 2008

Christmas Book Swap

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At the beginning of the month we signed up to participate in a fun Christmas book swap over at Mommy Holly's blog and sent out two boxes each with a book and a bunch of fun little presents to our swap families :) Well on Christmas eve we received our first box in return which was for K. Inside were all sorts of little gifts and a really cute little book called A Very Special Snowflake about a lost dog named Snowflake and on each of the pages you had to find him hidden in the pictures. The kids loved it!

Each of the gifts were individually wrapped and they all had a cute message written on the outside of the wrapping paper. It was great and we had fun trying to guess what would be inside by the message clues :)

Here is the entire contents of what K got! There were pj's, candy, hot chocolate, stickers, snowmen & snowflakes to make, floam, and his absolutely favorite thing..... playbmobil! Liz you should have seen his face light up :) Thanks so much for a great package and it was a real treat to swap with you and your two little ones.

Blessings,

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Dec. 13, 2008

I'm On Twitter Now, Are You?

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I finally took the plunge and signed myself up with Twitter :) It's actually a lot of fun sending out little updates about what we are doing throughout the day, things that don't always get blogged about. So if you have a twitter account let me know, I would love to find you or if you want to see what we are up to you can find me at Rosy_Posy :)

Blessings,

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Dec. 11, 2008

Anne of Green Gables this Sunday on CBC

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For all of you Anne of Green Gables fans out there, I thought that I would share just in case you missed it that CBC and CTV will be airing an original three-hour film event of Anne of Green Gables ~ New Beginnings with Hannah Endicott-Douglas playing the young Anne Shirley, showing her life before Green Gables this Sunday, December 14th. I know we'll be watching it :)

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Dec. 10, 2008

Nikon Camera Shopping

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I am super excited!! Today Dh and I went camera shopping to check out the new Nikon D90 SLR that I have had my eye on :) I actually began drooling over its predecessor the D80 two years ago now *grin* and have been saving my pennies since then. Finally nearly 2 years later I've got enough!! We got to use it a little bit today and try out different lenses on it which was fun.

It comes with an 18 - 105mm lens but I want something just a little bit larger for a better telephoto option so we have decided on the 18 - 200mm Nikkor lens which is supposed to be a fantastic all around lens that you won't need to switch very often if at all for what I'm going to use if for :) There was also a cheaper Sigma version of the same lens which was very tempting but after checking out the comparisons on cameralabs.com I think I'm going to stick with the Nikkor lens. It just sort of feels wrong to be spending so much money for a Nikon and then cheaping out when it comes to the super important lens aspect of having this camera *grin*. My birthday is coming up real quick here before Christmas so.... I think I just may get it early :) I can't wait!!

Blessings,

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Dec. 2, 2008

Christmas Card Swap

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A little while back we signed up for a Christmas card swap on the Kids Craft Weekly website. We had to make 10 handmade Christmas cards of any type and send them to 10 random swap partners :) Well we got them all finished and mailed out on time!!

Christmas cards made & mailed...... CHECK *grin*. Eight are on their way to the US, two to the United Kingdom and one to Australia. The kids are super excited to see where we will get ours from :) Now we've got to get back to making our own cards for family! LOL. I've got two more boxes that are ready to be packed and sent off for a Christmas book swap we joined in to, but I've got that one covered and don't actually have to have it mailed until next week so I'm up to speed with that one to :) Can you tell we just LOVE getting mail? *grin*

Are any of you participating in a special Christmas time swap??

Blessings,

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~About Me~

Hello from Canada! I am a homeschooling mom to 3 very rambunctious children ages 10, 6 & 3 years old while holding down the fort as tug boat captain 'Dad' sails the seven seas *grin*. We're located on 40 acres in a tiny rural community in beautiful British Columbia and this is my quirky journal about our homeschool journey, running my home based business 'RosyUndPosy' making 'Eco Friendly Bags 4 Green Living', and everyday life home on the farm. Hope you enjoy your visit :)

Looking East down Race and Current Passages to Helmcken Island

Want to have a peak at what the weather looks like here today? Here's a cam showing the lovely scenic view looking east down Johnstone Strait past Helmcken & Hardwicke Islands.

Looking North across Johnstone Strait to Hardwicke Island

And this one is looking north across Johnstone Strait towards Hardwicke Island. Hit the refresh button on your browser to update the picture and make sure you stop by during daylight hours :)