Blog — diy

As a lover of cards and all things handmade I decided that I wanted my son to make his own Valentine’s Day cards this year. He is five years old and is at the stage where he loves coloring and cutting with scissors. He needed to be able to make 16 cards to give to his preschool classmates and, at first, I thought that would be way too many cards for a kid that age to make…until I realized that he could make 1 or 2 BIG CARDS and then cut them (which he loves doing) into smaller cards. BINGO....

ROCKS. Super fun, right? I mean, what could be more fun than a small, dirty, lifeless nodule found pretty much everywhere? Well, five-year-old Kat would have had a hard time thinking of something more fun than rocks. I can thank my mom for that. One summer while we were spending a really long time visiting my grandparents my mom made a bunch of rock dolls for me. I’m pretty sure the lack of toys at their house and the lack of stores in their small town made me whiny. Fortunately, my poor mom has always had the gift of creativity....