Celebrate Women's History Month - Part 7

Well, we are getting closer and closer to the end of Women's History Month! Who have you been learning about??

If you want to catch up here is what I have so far:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6


Joan of Arc - Heroine of France and Saint

Maya Angelou - American Author, Poet, Civil Rights Activist

Ruth Bader Ginsburg - United States Supreme Court Justice 

Catherine the Great - Longest Ruling Female Leader of Russia


Joan of Arc

Books - 

DK Biography: Joan of Arc 

Joan of Arc 

Joan of Arc 

Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc 

Joan of Arc: The Teenager That Saved Her Nation 


Links - 

History.com 

Biography.com 

Joan of Arc Archive 

Live Science 

Ducksters 


Printables -

Garden of Praise 

Catholic Playground 

Teachers Pay Teachers 


Movies - 

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Rated R)

Joan of Arc  (Unrated)



Maya Angelou

Books -

Poetry for Young People 

Maya Angelou: Journey of the Heart 

Still I Rise: The Story of Maya Angelou 

Learning about Achievement from the Life of Maya Angelou 

The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou 


Links - 

MayaAngelou.com 

Biography.com 

Poetry Foundation 

Poets.org 

NPR.org 


Printables -

Education.com 

BetterWorld.net 

Teachers Pay Teachers 



Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Books - 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Women of Achievement) 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Supreme Court Justice 

Learning about Equal Rights from the Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg 

Raising the Bar: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and ACLU Women's Rights Project 


Links -

Biography.com 

Makers.com 

Achievement.org 

NotableBiographies.com 

MiriamsCup.com 


Printables -

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a thing!!!!! 



Catherine the Great 

Books -

Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia 

Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1773 

The Life and Times of Catherine the Great 

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend 

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great  (For adults, I LOVED it.)


Links -

Biography.com 

History.co.uk 

AlexanderPalace.org 

NNDB.com 

Britannica.com 


Printables -

Education.com 

HomeschoolHelperOnline.com 

Teachers Pay Teachers 


Hope you are enjoying these posts as much as I am!! :D

Just 2 more left.


HAVE FUN LEARNING ABOUT INCREDIBLE WOMEN!!!

DIY No Sew Easter Door Hanger

This project is SO easy!!! It takes less than an hour and NO SEWING required!!!!! 


What I Used

Felt - 5 pieces of white, 2 pieces of pink (the pink felt made the center egg)
Scrap fabric (made the eggs on either side)
Scrap ribbons (for the felt egg and to hang)
Double sided Heat N Bond
Hot glue gun (or fabric or tacky glue)


Step 1

Cut your fabric and Heat N Bond to fit the felt.

Step 2 

Follow the directions to apply Heat N Bond to the fabric and 1 piece of felt.
Repeat for the 2nd piece of felt. (Both pieces go in back of the fabric)

Repeat for the other fabrics and/or felt.

Step 3

Glue your ribbons onto the solid felt (or fabric).


Step 4

Cut all 3 pieces into egg shapes.


Step 5

Glue the eggs together.


Step 6

Glue ribbon to the back for hanging.


ALL DONE!!!!

How easy was that????? 

Now, you CAN zigzag stitch around the edges with coordinating or contrasting thread but it really isn't necessary. 

If you have any questions, feel free to ask! :)

HAPPY EASTER!!!!! HAPPY CRAFTING!!!!

Celebrate Women's History Month - Part 6

Welcome to Part 6 of my month long series for Women's History Month!
Each week I have been putting together 2 posts spotlighting resources to learn about extraordinary women! 

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5 


Liliuokalani - Last Queen of Hawaii

Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady

Wilma Mankiller - First Female Chief of the Cherokee Nation

Sojourner Truth - Abolitionist and Women's Rights Activist 


Liliuokalani 

Books -

LiliUokalani 

Danger Marches to the Palace: Queen Lili'Uokalani 

The Last Hawaiian Queen 

Lilioukalani: Young Hawaiian Queen 

Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani 
Read for free HERE

The Betrayal of Liliuokalani:Last Queen of Hawaii 1838-1917 


Links -

History.com 

Britannica.com 

Biography.com 

PBS.org 

YouTube 



Eleanor Roosevelt

Books -

Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? 

Time for Kids: Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World 

Eleanor Roosevelt: Life of Discovery 

Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice 

DK Biography: Eleanor Roosevelt 


Links -

Biography.com 

FirstLadies.org 

FDRLibrary 

PBS.org 

YouTube 


Printables- 

Education.com 

Homeschooling.About.com 

Garden of Praise 



Wilma Mankiller

Books - 

Wilma Mankiller: Principal Chief of the Cherokees 

Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation 

Wilma Mankiller (First Biographies) 

Wilma Mankiller (Great Women in History) 

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People 


Links -

Biography.com 

WilmaMankiller.com 

MyHero.com 

Wikipedia.org 


Printable -

DoOneThing.org 



Sojourner Truth

Books -

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth 

My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth 

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? 

A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth 

Sojourner Truth 


Links -

Biography.com 

History.com 

PBS.org 

SojournerTruth.org 

WomensHistory.About.com 


Printables -

Garden of Praise

Crayola.com 

Education.com 

DoOneThing.org




HAVE FUN LEARNING ABOUT AMAZING WOMEN!!!!!!

Use Your Words - March 2015 - SPRING!

Today’s post is a writing challenge. This is how it works: participating bloggers picked 4 – 6 words or short phrases for someone else to craft into a post. All words must be used at least once and all the posts will be unique as each writer has received their own set of words. That’s the challenge, here’s a fun twist; no one who’s participating knows who got their words and in what direction the writer will take them. Until now.

Links to the other “Use Your Words” posts:

 Baking In A Tornado

 Spatulas on Parade

 Stacy Sews and Schools

 The Bergham’s Life Chronicles

 Battered Hope

Eileen’s Perpetually Busy

 Someone Else’s Genius

 Confessions of a part-time working mom

 Southern Belle Charm

 Searching for Sanity

 Sparkly Poetic Weirdo

 Climaxed

 Evil Joy Speaks 

Your words are:

Mud ~ Spring ~ Dirt ~ Flowers ~ Snow

They were submitted by: Southern Belle Charm    

As I write this there is still a little snow on the ground. I love it. Snow is one of my favorite things.

But it's melting, turning all the dirt into mud. That means one thing, spring is on its way! With spring comes another one of my favorite things, flowers!

Ok, that was a little toooooo easy. ;) Let's take this in another direction.

Here are my words again and what they mean to me. 

MUD - I am not one of those moms that freaks out when their kids get dirty. I actually encourage my kids to get out in the mud and roll around! LOL Play in it!! Make mud pies!! Have mud fights!!! 
I think we should let the kids BE kids. Let them play! They are only children for such a short time. We make playing a priority. ;)

Check out that Splish Splash Rain Cape! ;)

SPRING - My 2nd favorite season, after autumn and before winter. I love how green everything gets, how new it all is. I love all the flowers. I love how all the animals respond to the warmer weather. 

What I DON'T like is the pollen!!!!

DIRT - See mud. Although, I don't like dirt getting tracked into the house. Drives me CRAZY!!!!!

FLOWERS - I love flowers!! I buy fresh cut flowers all the time. Why buy fresh cut when you can grow them?? Well, I CAN'T grow them. I am death to flowers. DEATH!!! I can't grow ANYTHING!!! It's so disappointing. 

SNOW - One of my FAVORITE things!! It's just so beautiful!! The only really beautiful thing about winter, really... I figure, if it's going to be cold, it might as well snow and be pretty! ;) Plus the kids love to play in it!! 

I hope you like how I used my words!! ;)

Don't forget to click all the links to the other posts and show some comment love! :)

Celebrate Women's History Month - Part 5

Welcome to part 5 of my month long series for Women's History Month!!! I am putting together resources for learning about a variety of extraordinary women!!! 

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4 


The women for part 4:

Boadicea - Queen of the British Iceni Tribe

Indira Gandhi - 4th Prime Minister of India

Sandra Day O'Connor - First woman Supreme Court Justice 

Shirley Temple - Actress and US Ambassador 


Boadicea  

Books - 

Boadicea: Warrior Queen of the Celts 

Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen 

Boadica 

Boudicca (Ancients in Action) 

Royalty.NU (a list of books and resources)

I have no idea how appropriate any of these are for children. That is something you will have to see for your own family.


Links -

Historic-UK.com 

WomensHistory.About.com 

MainLesson.com 

Encyclopedia.com 

WorldInfo.com 

YouTube - In Search of Queen Boadicea 

YouTube - Boudica's Lost Tribe 

YouTube - Enya - Boadicea 



Indira Gandhi  

Books -

Indira Gandhi: Daughter of India 

Indira Gandhi 

Indira Gandhi (World Leaders Past and Present) 

Indira Nehru Gandhi: Ruler of India 

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi 


Links -

Biography.com 

Britannica.com 

History.com 

TheFamousPeople.com 


Printables -

PrintableColoringPages.co.uk 

DoOneThing.org 



Sandra Day O'Connor

Books -

Sandra Day O'Connor: Women of Achievement 

Sandra Day O'Connor: US Supreme Court Justice 

Sandra Day O'Connor 

Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice for All  

Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance 


Links -

Biography.com 

OConnorHouse.org 

Makers.com 

History.com 

PBS.org 


Shirley Temple

Books -

Child Star: An Autobiography 

American Legends: The Life of Shirley Temple 

Shirley Temple Black 

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America 

The Shirley Temple Scrapbook 


Links -

Biography.com 

ShirleyTemple.com 

NWHM.org 

Britannica.com 

YouTube.com - Shirley Temple Biography 


Printables - 

MoneySavingMom.com 

AllMyDolls.com 

PrintableColoringPages.co.uk 

ShirleyTempleDolls.com 

Of course, there are a ton of great Shirley Temple movies!!!! 



HAVE FUN LEARNING ABOUT INCREDIBLE WOMEN!!!!

Splish Splash Rain Cape DIY - Blog with Friends - Spring Fever Edition

This is the SPRING FEVER edition of Blog with Friends!! Who's ready for SPRING???? 7 bloggers, 7 projects to help welcome in SPRING!!!!! :D

I decided to go with a lightweight raincape for Cailey. You can wear it over a coat for chilly rainy days or by itself for warmer rainy days. 

This was my first time working with ripstop. I can't say that I am that impressed with it. BLECK!! If I did this over again, I would just keep searching until I found a light weight vinyl OR buy tons of this -

and make my OWN fabric!!!! 


What I Used 

3 yards of blindingly bright ripstop
1 package of Pellon Vinyl Fuse
1/2 yard of chevron
1/2 yard of that other print 

I started off searching and searching for cute vinyl print. SIGH... I found one but it was WAY too heavy to make a cape/coat out of. I bought it anyway. I'm sure I'll figure out some use for it.

Then I grabbed the ripstop. But it was just soooo plain, despite the day glow color! 

That's when I found the Pellon Vinyl Fuse!!!! I decided I would make some appliques with it and jazz up that raincape!!! 


Step 1

Fold over your fabric until you have a triangle. 
Measure down the sides and the middle, marking the points. Connect the points and cut. 

See that camo riptstop?? SIGH... I promised Colin some sort of rain gear out of it. 


Step 2

Cut a slight curve a couple of inches from the top.


Step 3

Cut straight down the middle.


Step 4

You can use the hood of another jacket or hoodie or whatever as your template. I used the pattern I made for Colin's Minecraft Hoodie and sized it up. 

Cut 4 pieces.


Step 5

Take 2 pieces and sew around the back curve. Do the same to the other 2 pieces.


Step 6

Take one set and turn it right side out.
Slide it into the other one.
Sew around the front curve.


Step 7

Turn it all right side out and top stitch along the front of the hood.


Step 8

Pin the bottom of the hood to the neck. 

Sew in place. 


Step 9 

Apparently ripstop WILL unravel. :/ So what I did was just zigzag stitch around all the raw edges. Much easier than trying to hem a circle! BLECK!!! 

Step 10

Next, I took the vinyl fuse and following the directions, fused it with the 2 prints.

Then I cut out raindrop shapes. 


Step 11

Pin the shapes on where ever you like.

Then, using a tight zigzag stitch, sew all around the raindrops.

Move the cat so you can photograph your work.

Step 12

So, I wanted to reinforce the area where the button and buttonhole go.... Then I melted the riptop.... So I had to make a patch out of double sided fuse. :P 

Then I added the button and the buttonhole. 

After that you are ALL DONE!!!!!

I apologize for the quality of some of the pictures. I am still trying to figure out the camera on my new phone and I don't think it liked the color of the ripstop. LOL It looks SO MUCH better in person than it does in any of the pictures. 


Don't forget to check out all the AWESOME, AMAZING Spring posts in this edition of Blog with Friends!!! 

Karen at Baking in a Tornado has a recipe for welcoming spring with fresh berried in a White Brownie Parfait. YUMMMMMMY!!! 

Robin from Someone Else's Genius has a tutorial for making these GORGEOUS Faux Terrarium Earrings. 

Eileen's Perpetually Busy has a tutorial for this darling Easy Spring Baby Blanket! SO SWEET!!!

Lydia at Cluttered Genius is showing us how to Spring Clean with Essential Oils!!! AWESOME!!!!!

Melissa at Home on Deranged has Five Apps to Help Your Garden Grow!!!! TOO COOL!!!!

Christy at Uplifting Families has some great Non-Candy Easter Basket Ideas! 

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