TGIF! Have an awesome weekend everyone!
I am super excited! Halloween is tonight and all my kiddos are geared up and ready. And for the first time in years hubby is actually home on Halloween so we actually get to go Trick or Treating as a family. Which is good because I am abandoning him and the kids for the better part of the next two days. I will be attending a rally in my hometown on Saturday to see Joe and Jill Biden. Then on Sunday I head into the city to hear Barack Obama speak. I am suuuuuper excited. Oh and I voted this week…it was a fun experience…especially getting to “school” some election boards workers who were fraudulently telling people they had to have a driver’s license or photo ID to vote.
Homeschooling is going great. My son has been making strides with his reading and for the first time has reading related goals, woot! Yesterday we benefited from the nearby public schools as they arranged for a NYC children’s playhouse group to perform story book musicals at a nearby historic theatre. It was so much fun…the kids LOVED it. We got to sit in the balcony, which was a first. The group turned some of our favorite books into musical productions…If You Give a Pig a Pancake, How I Became a Pirate, and The Paper Bag Princess, to name a few. Surprisingly both kids liked The Paper Bag Princess Best and it is a REALLY good story with a princess who journeys to save the prince instead of the other way around, outwitting a scary dragon, and then kicks the prince to the curb when he criticizes her appearance after the rescue, LOL. It was a great time but pretty noisy being there with 1500 public school kids!
Sooo…on to some cool weekend links:
Check out my post on 5 Minutes for Going Green: A Very Merry Green Christmas.
This WikiHow page on Dumpster Diving is really fun and informative. I am uhm…becoming interested in Freeganism and dumpster diving so I thought this page was pretty cool. I have a story to tell you about this issue so look for that coming soon! ;)
Another seemingly bizarre idea I have had lately is building a home made out of old shipping containers. Just look at some of these amazing homes made from garbage.
For the crafty I saw this tutorial for a pocket tissue holder that rocks and some gorgeous quilted coasters.
Have a Happy Halloween and a great weekend!
I hear about this dumpster diving a few years back when I was way further over on the mainstream wagon and thought those folks were um how shall we say – not quite okay perhaps? But these days as I’ve come further and further out of mainstream it doesn’t seem near as crazy and really I’ve been picking up grabage that others have left at the curb for years! Started as a child in the apartment building – only makes sense doesn’t it! Although the eating piece doesn’t quite site 100% right with me! At leats not yet – who knows what the future will hold!
Dumpster diving…..so it has a name?! Isn’t it unbelievable what people throw away? One of the hottest spots for good stuff is a college town. I’ve been doing it for several years now and have many great items in my home.
that is great stuff your so cool artist