Adding fun crafts to your summer activities just got a lot easier with this book: Hand in Hand: Crafting with Kids by Jenny Doh. I originally found out about the book via a blogger friend Jessica Okui of Zakka Life, who is also in the book (psst... Jessica, you/your littles rocked in the book!  The craft was pretty fun too)! A little ...

Books, books and more books - I can't seem to get enough! I wanted to share with you some of my recent and current reads/listens: Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky (audiobook):  Such a great book and it's one that I have to listen to again, because it's that good. On Writing by Stephen King (audiobook):  I listened to this book ages ...

As many of you may know, my day job is a business manager for our local library.  My job is at the administration part of the library - the employee/bookkeeping side of things, so during my tea and cookies break, I visit the Children's Department of our library to check out what's new... Also, Jude has been asking me everyday if ...

Do you remember those wonderful Ed Emberley books from way back? I recently stumbled across one of Ed's book at the library, and it brought back fond memories of making thumb print creations! What I didn't realize, is that aside from the thumb print books, Ed Emberley had a bunch of drawing books too... so I requested a lot of different ...