Coffee Corner

Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. It is my absolute favourite time of the year. And it is not for the receiving of gifts, because if you know me, you know I am so incredibly awkward and uncomfortable in being gifted something.  I love anyone who even thought of me and wanting to gift something to me, and will always be forever grateful and remember all the gifts given to me but…. It also could partly be because my favourite part is the fact that I love the gifting part of Christmas, but if you know me, you know that I don’t even...

The other day I asked my oldest daughter (6) what she wanted to do. She thought long and hard and decided she wanted to go to a local park and collect sticks.  So off we went, talking about ideas we could do with this big bag of sticks we collected.  Yesterday we did our first craft with them. We made letter decor. We wrote their first initials and they glued the sticks the form the letter. Once that was dried we then glued on some flowers. They also decided to decorate the rest of the canvas.  We had so many...

If you have been following me for some time now, you have realized that I have a few obsessions. Mason jars obviously are one of them, but another thing that I love are terra cotta pots. These pots are so versatile, they can be used for flowers, gifts, decor, and so many more things. I had a few left over from school and summer crafts, and I knew that I had to find a way to do something for either Fall or Halloween. Now, I don't know where you are, but here, I have still been limiting bringing my kids to any...

My kids love to paint.   It is messy, it is time consuming, and have I mentioned messy?   But they love it.   They also get tired of just painting. So we are always painting new things, or the same things but with a twist. Instead of painting on paper, we paint rocks, we make sidewalk chalk paint instead of just chalk. We paint on paper, canvas, paper bags, anything we can think of, and we try to make a theme of it to make it seem different.  This time, we painted on canvas, but made a canvas with...

I have heard so many moms that I have talked to this year saying that the only time they get any type of “socializing” or are able to talk with other adults is during the school drop off and pick up.