A Place Like This

Author: Valarie Budayr

  • I Captured the Moon and A Giveaway

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     The other evening I was just sitting on the screen porch knitting, here in the South we live a lot on our screen porches when the weather is nice,when I felt this blue glow come onto the porch and I stopped knitting to see what it was, and that's when  I captured the moon. It…

  • Squish Painting Tutorial

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        It's not as messy as it sounds but it is fun. My Tivo/dvr is all programmed to catch those important shows I won't be watching this week like Deadliest Catch. It's TV turn off week and I have plans chocked full of fun projects and events to get me away from the TV…

  • Joy On Purpose: The Fox Diaries

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    Don't Forget! Today is the last day to enter the Little Acorn Learning Giveaway. It's open until 8 pm EST tonight. Please leave your comment here.   Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post……. A little over a year ago I looked out my office window to see a mother fox with her 4…

  • Giveaway from Little Acorn Learning

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     A little over a year ago I virtually met Eileen Straiton from Little Acorn Learning. The moment I received her e-newsletter, I immediately felt nurtured by her daily creative caring. As the year has progressed I've had the honor and pleasure of collaborating with Eileen on her newsletter and working as a contributing author for the Little Acorn…

  • Look Up

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    What's that up there?    Is it a plane?   ……Is it a Rocket?……Is it a fish? Yes and much more.  Yesterday was the Kite festival . Luckily we had great warm weather and a lot of wind.  Everybody came with a picnic lunch and their kites.      The big attraction was the coy pond.…

  • Mesmerizing Music Rolling Along in Japan

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    I was visiting Ren's blog Lady of the Arts today when I saw the most incredible video. Filmed in the Japanese forest of Kyushu. A wooden ball goes down a very long wooden marimba playing Bach's Cantata # 147: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. The sound you hear comes from the actual marimba and is not…

  • Dinners on Me…….

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    Last week I wrote about our Family Dinner tradtion and your responses we so kind and positive. Many of you asked for the recipes and I am only too happy to share them with you. Hummus   One can of chick-peas 4 large serving spoons of Tahini 1 to 2 tsp of lemon juice 1…

  • Spring Alive

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    The cold weather has finally turned warm. The weather over the weekend was nothing less than exquisite.    Some people in my family were just plain giddy. Couldn't stop laughing for any thing.      Oh well, good weather will do that to one. What did you do this weekend and how was the weather where…

  • Playing With Books

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    Normally I'm playing in books but yesterday called for something a little different. I've been working very hard lately with all of my creative projects and then I had to get my taxes done. By yesterday afternoon, the realization that I hadn't crafted in quite a while hit home and I decided right then and…

  • Family Dinner

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    First let me tell you about the post that isn't. Yesterday I spent all this time writing about my new ipad2 and the incredible things it can do. Included was a list of great Apps. When I was finished I clicked on publish and that's when my post got lost in cyber-space. It's never happened…