Author: Laura Jofre
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Planning a kid-friendly New Year’s Eve
How do you make a New Year’s party that the whole family can enjoy? For years, I barely acknowledged New Year’s Eve to my three kids so they wouldn’t know they were missing anything. I either went to some flashy grownup event or skipped it and went to bed. In the morning, I explained about…
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Decor dreams take flight when dollhouse decorating
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In a kids’ entertainment world of expensive game systems and disposable plastic toys, there is an alternative: Make something. Play with it. The do-it-yourself trend, which embraces projects in electronics, engineering and crafts, dovetails nicely…
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Decor dreams take flight when dollhouse decorating
In a kids’ entertainment world of expensive game systems and disposable plastic toys, there is an alternative: Make something. Play with it. The do-it-yourself trend, which embraces projects in electronics, engineering and crafts, dovetails nicely with the perennially popular, mainly girl-driven activity of decorating. An abundance of room-decorating games appears online; Girlsgogames.com has at least…
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Decor dreams take flight when dollhouse decorating
In a kids’ entertainment world of expensive game systems and disposable plastic toys, there is an alternative: Make something. Play with it. The do-it-yourself trend, which embraces projects in electronics, engineering and crafts, dovetails nicely with the perennially popular, mainly girl-driven activity of decorating. An abundance of room-decorating games appears online; Girlsgogames.com has at least…
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Green lawn’s a challenge for a do-it-yourselfer
In the beginning, I said of our lawn: “as long as it’s green.” That approach, it turns out, is like saying of your children, “as long as they’re kids,” then sitting back and hoping for the best. My lawn is now a wreck of weeds and brown patches, littered with nutshells from the squirrels, who…