Wordless Wednesday- Shaw's Farm

Shout-out to Mommy Doodles

          How do you all like my new blog design? I'm loving it! The new format was designed by Melanie (aka Mommy Doodles). I actually won the custom header and button from a twitter party a few weeks back, and she was kind enough to install it for me and spruce my blog up a bit. 
          SO if you're looking to customize your blog for an affordable price, check out Melanie's design site: http://www.mommydoodlesdesign.com/. Melanie also offers free tech help for those of us that are a bit technologically challenged. Check out her forum here: http://mommydoodles.proboards.com/ 


       AND, I'd love some feedback on my blog. What do you think?! 

Paper Mama Photo Challenge- "Confusion"

    Here's a flashback of Big Boy when he was about 13 mths (he's three now).

Homemade Playdough Recipe (that actually works)

           SO in all my years of teaching kindergarten, I never found a playdough recipe that I was happy with. This week, Big Boy came home with one for me to make for his class. We tried it out yesterday and it worked really well! It smells, feels, and looks just like the real thing! The ingredients were all familiar, but the one thing that I think made a huge difference was cooking it- BRILLIANT! Ha, well maybe you already knew this secret, but I did not. Below is a great recipe for some homemade dough (and a very fun science experiment in making it):

My Homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte

          A few posts back and I asked my readers to share their favorite recipes for homemade Pumpkin Spice Lattes. Today I finally got a chance to try my own. I've been on a quest to find the Pumpkin Pie Sauce that my friend Ashley suggested, but have yet to find it locally. So instead, here are the ingredients that I used:

#12NewThings Eco-Endeavor #2-A Planet-friendly Period

        My 12 New Things List for September consisted of trying out mama cloth and "greening" my monthly cycle. **Let me just stop here and tell you that if you are not comfortable about talking about menstruation , or it grosses you out, please stop reading now. For those comfortable with their bodies and desiring to learn more, please read on! **

AND the winner is...

          Thanks so much to everyone that participated in the Fluffalumps giveaway. Random.org picked comment number 25 !

True Random Number Generator

Min:  1

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25

Comment 25 was by Colleen M said...

I liked Fluffalumps on Facebook (Colleen Maurina).

My favorite color is Harold's Purple Crayon!

colljerr at comcast dot net

September 21, 2010 7:40 PM 

Congrats to Colleen! I'm emailing you now!