My oldest is a voracious reader. It has reached a point where we ask her NOT to read after she’s logged a certain amount of HOURS in a day. While her legal name is Brooklyn, we often call her…
The Italian plumber is Back in a game that shaped a generation of platformers, Super Mario Bros 3 is a timeless classic that will never be forgot.
Pumpkin Night mask based on the manga, perfect for cosplay, comic cons, Halloween, etc - with pics of my paper mache process, painting, etc.
This ‘book nerd quilt’ is such a great pattern to let your own individual style shine - travel around the world, bury yourself in the classics, whip up the romance or make a book cover that might inspire you to write a book of your own someday.
“Sarabella’s Thinking Cap” by Judy Schachner When I was a child I was a huge daydreamer, that is when my nose wasn’t buried in a book or I wasn’t out climbing trees bare foot. I loved to imagine everything from my own stories to ridiculous and pretend scenarios for situations in my life. I think...Read More »
Reducir todo el contenido de un semestre para estudiar durante los exámenes finales puede provocarnos un terrible dolor de cabeza. Es por ello que quiero compartir contigo cómo redactar un buen res…
I like to test patterns for other people in addition to Quiltmaker 100 block magazine. I tested the Book Nerd Quilt pattern by Angela Pingel and she wanted it to be shared on social media. This pat…
I have a very good friend whose birthday is just a few days before Halloween, so the holiday has always been her favorite. I think it was last year when I came across these fat quarter fabric bundles at my local Tuesday Morning store. They're quilt-shop quality fabric, and I couldn't pass them up. (They're from the Spooktacular and Spooktacular Too collections by Maude Asbury for Blend.) I bought two bundles, thinking that I'd use them to make something for my friend, but I wasn't sure exactly what. When I saw Angela Pingel's Book Nerd Quilt pattern, inspiration struck. These large prints would make perfect book covers. Plus, my friend is a serious book lover and collector, so the fabric and pattern were a perfect match. The pattern required more fabric than I had from the bundles, so I went to one of my local quilt shops, Mountain Creek Quilt Shop, to supplement the stack. It turns out that they had just received an order of new Halloween fabrics and they hadn't even unpacked the box yet! So I helped them out, breaking into some of those bolts for small-scale prints with bats and spiderwebs. I got the text prints to use as the pages and the oranges for book spines. The mummies are a Cotton + Steel design from last season, and I bought a bunch of them to put on the back of the quilt. Assembling these book blocks was a lot of fun -- after I ran a test and figured out what sizes to precut all the sections for the foundation paper piecing. Everything went A LOT faster with precuts, so if you ever have to foundation paper piece a bunch of the same block and the pattern doesn't suggest precut sizes, take the time to figure it out. (Pretty proud of my print alignment on this one!) The pattern includes the option of cornerstones in the layout, and I decided to include them and use a dark print that I wasn't able to use in the books. If I were to make this quilt again, I think I would either leave out the cornerstones or add them to the outside intersections as well to finish framing the design. For the quilt back, I didn't have enough of the mummies to use them exclusively, so I had to figure out how to piece it. My mom was heading out to Mountain Creek again, so I had her pick up the black with little white cat faces (another Cotton + Steel print, but from this season). I've made pieced quilt backs before, but I usually don't like how they turn out. I'm not sure if it's the size of the pieces or how I lay them out, but it never turns out looking like I expect. So I laid this one out and played with all my leftovers until I felt pretty confident about it. My friend Jennifer agreed to quilt this on her longarm, and we picked an edge-to-edge spiderweb design. It turned out so well - I was blown away. Even the white thread on the dark backing worked out. I rounded the corners off and used a black and white stripe on the bias for binding.
Now with TWO options- all four quadrants OR quadrant 1 only!!! This activity provides students with practice graphing in all four quadrants on the coordinate plane. Coordinates include positive & negative, whole & half numbers (example 6, -2.5). Please note: There are a lot of coordinates that include 0.5! It's great for "early finishers" or can be used as an extra credit assignment. This, along with my other coordinate graphs provide a great opportunity for a festive rotating bulletin board in your math classroom. I have included two versions of the coordinate plane- with or without numbered axes. There are also two versions of the list of coordinates- one of which is labeled with the image name & the other is blank which provides students with a bit of suspense while graphing the points :) You will receive: • Photo of the hand drawn & colored final product • Coordinate Plane (all four quadrants or quadrant 1 only) • List of ordered pairs (with or without page title) This item is also included in my: EMOJI Bundle
How to Plan your own DIY Mario Bros Party Here is how I made my own DIY Mario Bros Party. A lot of work went into this DIY Mario Bros Party for all my Super
These Star Wars printable masks are ready for download. Now you and your kids can become your favorite character with a mask you print out and make at home.
Nathan the Nerd created this handy graphic showing How To Play Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock. via I Love Charts
10 Ways to use the Cricut Maker for Quilting: From cutting out fabric to cutting hexagon papers, the Cricut Maker is quiltings BFF!
I don't typically post paper dolls, but this one was a little out of the ordinary. ^^ This Thor paper doll is but one in a lengthy series of free paper dolls by illustrator Kyle Hilton. Hilton's series includes characters from various television shows and movies. Check them out here. If you are the mood for something a little more humorous, take a gander at this Deadpool paper doll.
