Do Life Right

I’ve met a lot of people lately who are feeling stifled and uncreative. They’ve been working hard at parenting, other caregiving (of parents, friends, or other relatives), or in their careers. I hear women, in particular, say there is no time for themselves. No time for pleasure or creativity. No time [...]

Our Girl Scout troop just had a lovely “Goop and Goo Day 2008″. Here are some of the recipes we used (you may recognize some of the recipes, but we had to make our own fun names). Of course, making your own goops and goos are super fun, too. Enjoy!
Smelly Gooey Goodness
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Are you using fabric shopping bags yet? Consider the implications of plastic and paper, before you allow your purchases to be put into either again.
What you can do:

Be aware of the plastic bag problem.
Encourage the shops you frequent to have bag incentive programs; talk with the owner and/or manager - BE NICE. Write [...]

In no particular order, with my additional sarcastic comments after each semi-colon:

Procrastination is good, preferred even; Putting off doing homework and projects until the last minute is well worth it. Work done under pressure takes less time and is usually graded better. Nevermind the stress of it all, stomach aches are good…
Don’t share information [...]

Inspired by Steve Spangler’s Science “How to Make a Newspaper Tree” experiment, we used an old roll of green paper (was photography background paper, but wrapping paper — or even spray painted newspaper — would have worked better) to create a quick, easy, and portable Christmas tree. It came out so nice, we decided [...]

Last week, my older Girl Scout troop (Juniors and Cadettes) and I (with a few parents) went to the Sonoran Glass Art Academy and participated in the “Blow Your Own Ball” project. It was SO much fun and all of the glass balls turned out absolutely gorgeous. I’ve looked at them all and [...]

Here are our Top 10 Board Games (in no particular order). All games are family friendly and would make wonderful gifts! We especially love having board game parties.

4 Player Mancala; Mancala for four people! We play this ALL the time. It’s easy enough for little kids to learn, yet challenging enough [...]

When I saw CraftyPod’s “Glove Monster Tutorial”, I knew I had to make some with my daughters and with my Girl Scout troop. CraftyPod’s instructions are just perfect, so read them for directions. Here are photographs of just a few of our cute little monsters. As you can see, the photo from my Thanksgiving Day [...]

I’ve always wanted a gemstone tree. I first saw one in a specialty store when I was a child. It was so beautiful, and looked so fragile, I was afraid to touch it. Yet, I did — gently, watching the way the little tree arms moved and the little leaves swayed. My parents bought [...]

Vision Boards and Vision Boxes are becoming very popular! They are similar to Wish Lists, yet significantly deeper. Vision Boards can encompass not only our material desires, but also our deepest and innermost wishes and dreams such as “more peace” or “a magical existence”. With The Law of Attraction and “The Secret” so popular, we’re [...]