Monthly Archives: May 2008

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Secret Codes, Secret Messages

If granddaughters love tea parties, what do grandsons love? Why, secret codes. That’s what! Writing secret messages to your grandson could be great fun. And a great challenge — especially to decipher the message. Before you write your message, you need to determine how you are going to code it. […]

Turn Back the Hands of Time

Tucked away in a corner of one of my closets is a time capsule that our family will open in 2010. I can’t wait! We created it in 2000 – the beginning of a new century and a new millennium. This is the second one we’ve done as a family. […]

This fan-fold edging is an extremely easy way to finish off a blanket's edging.

Fan Edging on a Baby Blanket

Many of my readers have wondered how to make the baby blanket with the fan edging. So, I thought that I would make a little movie to show how it was done. After all, a picture (movie) is worth a thousand words of explanation! And, a video shows the process […]

Dice Game: Zilch

Roll those dice! Whaddya have? Snake eyes? A straight? Zilch? To bad. You lose all your points! Over thirty years ago, our good friends taught us a dice game called Zilch. It is easy to learn and fun to play. You can play this game on New Year’s Eve with your […]