June 2011

A Project Filled Spring and Summer

This spring and summer have been full of great learning opportunities for our boys, as well as the benefit of some wonderful family time. We’ve been able to work on things that I normally feel like we just don’t have time to work on during the school year (which is probably ridiculous to say, since [...]

10 Things I Love About Pinterest

I have shared my love for Pinterest before.  I can’t help it — it is just the coolest site!  As I was drying my hair tonight, I started writing down some things that I love about Pinterest.  It wasn’t even a struggle to come up with a top ten list.   1. I love the [...]

Personal Shopping from Betty Beguiles

Today at Catholic Mothers Online, I’m sharing about my personal shopping experience with Betty Beguiles.  Go over and read about it, plus check out the super cute Inspiration Board that consists of a total of four outfits, once some mixing and matching is done. Hello, pumpkin colored skirt!  You are so, so cute! Read about [...]

7 Quick Takes: June 24, 2011 (Vol. 85)

~ 1 ~ Molly got a new Littlest Pet Shop Blythe doll this week.  She loved this one and declared that she looked very “country.”  But, then the poor doll had a problem, we later learned.  How did we find this out, you might ask? Molly began performing a song (she loves making up songs) [...]

Finding Joy :: Week 1

Last week, at long last, I introduced Finding Joy (check it out to read more about my motivation and what it’s all about).  The Twitter-ized version is that I am going to try to work on various areas of my life that I think will bring more joy into my life and help me to [...]

New Additions to The Shop

Some recent additions to Just a Tiny Owl: This is the first piece Eat Your Veggies in a series of photographs in a new category in my shop called “Life Through My Phone.”  Yeah, that’s right.  This is iPhone photography, baby. This is actually the second time that I’m listing this particular piece – The [...]

Free Source for Homeschooling Materials

The last few years, we have used history curricula (different ones) that have been very heavy in real books, instead of textbooks.  While this is wonderful for my children, it can be hard on our homeschool budget. The first year that we did it, we used Winter Promise, and I bought almost all of the [...]

A Difficult Glimpse Into the Future

We spent this past weekend at my Grandparents’ house (which I will probably always call my grandparents’ house, even though my Grandma passed away just over a year ago).  We used the weekend as a time to visit with family, work on staging their house as my Grandpa was finally changing to a realtor who [...]

Many Little Links: June 19, 2011

Clay Bracelets – Skip to My Lou Easy to follow tutorial on making clay bracelets (complete with making the beads first) with children Blessed Chaos – Catholic Mothers Online Delena shared this hilarious post about trying to get the family read for Mass one morning.  It’s not pretty, but it is funny. Save Times by [...]

7 Quick Takes: June 17, 2011 (Vol. 84)

~ 1 ~ Next week, I am going to be co-hosting a Twitter party with Blogelina on the topic of Blogger Networking.  So, be sure to be on Twitter with the #blogelina hashtag next Thursday, June 23rd from 9 – 10 pm EST.  You need to make sure to RSVP (at the link), and during [...]

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