Baking soda clay

Yeah! Clay you can make at home with you kids. Mold it, bake it, and paint it.

http://thenewnew.blogspot.com/2011/07/baking-soda-clay.html

Xbox 360 Video Games for Pre-schoolers

My 4yr old loves playing games on the computer, but I need and want my computer throughout the day. I searched for xbox 360 games for pre-school and found these links.

Common sense you can actually search by age. But alas, none for xbox. Only for wii and nentendo DS.
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/reviews?media_type=29233&recommended_age=4

This is an article that points out some younger children's games.
http://deborahpercy.suite101.com/xbox-360-video-games-for-toddlers--preschoolers-age-3-4--5-a283324


Wii has sooo many pre-school games. Which is great, if we had a wii. Seriously xbox needs to get with it.

Click for Babies

Knitting To Prevent Infant Abuse: Start Knitting Now To Prevent Infant Abuse. Each and every day infants across North America are shaken and abused because of crying. Knit infant caps to be donated to hospitals for the new born babies.

Dump truck hits car, crashes into buildings

Dump truck hits car, crashes into buildings in NLR - KATV Channel 7 - The Spirit of Arkansas:  This was my aunt and two little cousins in the SUV that was hit. They're all out of the hospital and doing good now.

The special thing from the store

My daughter who is three, was going on and on last night about wanting that special thing we bought at the grocery store. "What thing?" I said, "That special thing.", "The animal cookies?", "no the special thing from the store!".
Then she pulled a dinning room chair up to the kitchen cabinets and just stands in the chair looking around the cabinets for whatever that special thing is that we bought.
This morning we figure out it's Pop tarts she wanted. Since we rarely buy Pop tarts, she didn't know what they were called. She just knew they were special.

Craft your autumn wedding accessories

       I love the monogram letters.       Love the favor bags.
    hmmmm not so much.                Beautiful old south.
  Love it for everyday. Not for a wedding
  Adorable, but where would you put it in a wedding. Not formal enough for me.

Literary definitions

Paranormal romance

• Paranormal romance is a sub-genre of the romance novel. A type of speculative fiction, paranormal romance focuses on romance and includes elements beyond the range of scientific explanation, blending together themes from the genres of traditional fantasy, science fiction, or horror. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_romance

• A sub-genre of romance that focuses on a world-view that is different from the norm.  One or more of the main characters in the romance has supernatural abilities.  Often, the hero or heroine is an immortal.  Typical types of characters in paranormals include vampires, werewolves, or witches.

www.firstcoastromancewriters.com/

• Romance novels with a supernatural element.  Since many urban fantasy books contain romance, we tried to use this category for books where the romance is a primary storyline, rather than a secondary plot.

www.urbanfantasyreads.com/index.php

Urban fantasy

• Urban fantasy is a subset of fantasy defined by place; the fantastic narrative has an urban setting. Many urban fantasies are set in contemporary times or contain supernatural elements. However, this is not the primary definition of urban fantasy. ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_fantasy

• A subgenre of Fantasy; the action takes place in this world at this time, with no change in Earth's history, but rather in its dynamics (i.e., physics: usually magic is possible). Another area most often under the influence of secular paganism.

www.christianfantasy.net/glossary.html

short sto·ry

noun  short stories, plural A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel a prose narrative shorter than a novel wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas (in the 20th and 21st century sense) and novels or books. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story

nov·el·ette

noun /ˌnävəˈlet/  novelettes, plural A short novel, typically one that is light and romantic or sentimental in character a short novel wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn A novelette (or, rarely, novelet ) is a piece of short prose fiction. The distinction between a novelette and other literary forms, like a novella, is usually based upon word count. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelette A story shorter than a novella and longer than a short story, 10,000-20,000 words long. www.katspace.org/fandom/fandef/ A work of between 7,500 and 17,500 words www.dailywritingtips.com/33-writing-terms-you-should-know/ A fictional work of between 15,000 and 25,000 words. www.timothyfish.net/Articles/Article.asp

no·vel·la

noun /nōˈvelə/  novellas, plural A short novel or long short story novelette: a short novel wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn A novella (also called a short novel) is a written, fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novella

nov·el

noun /ˈnävəl/  novels, plural A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism - the novels of Jane Austen A book containing such a narrative - she was reading a paperback novel The literary genre represented or exemplified by such works - the novel is the most adaptable of all literary forms

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• an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
• fresh: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
• a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"
• pleasantly new or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• (novelist) one who writes novels

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

• A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novel

Back to School Back pack tags

Some how I stumbled on the cutest back pack tags. If my little one was in school this year I'd so have one.

    

   

Calica, Mexico

Calica, a photo by aka_aimes on Flickr.

Calica port on our way to Playa del Carmen. On our way to go cave snorkeling.

Teen prank results in response by Fayetteville Fire Department and UAPD

Teen prank results in response by Fayetteville Fire Department and UAPD Arkansas Newswire University of Arkansas

What has happened with Olde South Candles?!

I went down south to see family for the 4th of July weekend and the hubby decides to go pick up our favorite candles. The only scented candle I'll have in the house, Olde South Muscadine. I could find them online or at The Hot Springs Winery. Now nothing!


This is one of the only images I could find online from The Butler Group and they don't even sell them anymore.

Canadian Postal Employees Return to Work | Arkansas Newswire | University of Arkansas

Canadian Postal Employees Return to Work Arkansas Newswire University of Arkansas

University Recreation Rugby Player Drafted Internationally | Arkansas Newswire | University of Arkansas

University Recreation Rugby Player Drafted Internationally Arkansas Newswire University of Arkansas

Ruffled Rosette Pillow Tutorial {from a t-shirt}

Ruffled Rosette Pillow Tutorial {from a t-shirt}






I love this! Absolutely adorable.

Cowgirl cookies

http://www.bakerella.com/mix-things-up/

Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies



Oreo's AND chocolate chip cookies in one yummmm!

Mary Maxim - Mosaics - Knit Scallop Scarf

Mary Maxim - Mosaics - Knit Scallop Scarf



Using Bernat Mosaic Self Patterning Yarn in Ambrosia

Learn something new everyday

Today, playing Google Chrome Alchemy, I learned a new word. Golem- an animated anthropomorphic being, created entirely from inanimate matter.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem 
Chromes Alchemy is a simple yet addictive game of combining elements to make new elements. That's easy enough. Only now there are 200 elements for you to figure out.