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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://the-joy-of-my-life-and-other-things.blogspot.com/2017/01/handmade-alpaca-wool-felted-adult.html" target="_blank">Handmade Alpaca Wool Felted Adult Indoor Booties</a><br />');
document.write('We waved goodbye to 2016 surrounded by pristine winter beauty, thanks to a well-earned mini vacation. I got to make a pair of felted alpaca wool booties while on vacation, which was both a relaxing and rewarding enterprise. The wool came from these lovely beauties, my favorite alpacas I know by name. The indoor booties fit perfectly and seem like a');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://the-joy-of-my-life-and-other-things.blogspot.com/2016/02/kids-cards-endangered-animals-valentine.html" target="_blank">Kids Cards: Endangered Animals Valentine Card plus Crossword</a><br />');
document.write('The ten year old wanted to make Valentines cards rather than buy some generic ones from the store that did not gel with her ideas. She settled on giving Endangered Animals cards for her friends. We  attributed/credited the image source, and only tried to use images that allowed Free Reuse for non-commercial purposes. Rather than the usual well-known endangered animals that many');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://the-joy-of-my-life-and-other-things.blogspot.com/2016/02/kids-cards-valentine-cards-pvz.html" target="_blank">Kids Cards: Valentine Cards: PvZ Friendships for Fun</a><br />');
document.write('The younger child has been a huge Plants versus Zombies fan for a couple of years now. The various plants and their powers fascinated him enough to come up with a whole set of plants on his own. Like, Push Bush (pushes zombies two squares away), Bamboom (bamboo that explodes at zombies, sort of like cherry bomb or potato mine only more zen), Plant-in (sounds like plaintain, but is a plant');
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document.write('Thanks to schools adopting the day as \"Friendship Day\", the older child has always looked forward to Valentine\'s Day preschool through lower elementary. The younger one, not so much. He could take it or leave it. But, what they both like is an opportunity to create something fun and share with friends. As the kids started thinking about what sort of card they want to make for their friends');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://the-joy-of-my-life-and-other-things.blogspot.com/2015/12/kids-art-winter-holiday-card.html" target="_blank">Kids Art: Winter Holiday Card</a><br />');
document.write('Although we don\'t usually get much snow, or perhaps because of it, the kids seem to love wintry scenes with piles of snow, roaring fire, trees laden with white, snowflakes and all things magical. That was the inspiration for this particular set of cards done by the ten year old. Together, we pored over wintry scenes online to fill our hearts with the cool beauty painted by various');
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