Now that you have some brush lettering worksheets to learn the technique and you have a brush lettering pen that you love, it’s time to find some inspiration and tutorials from people far more talented than myself! I am going to share with you 10 AMAZING hand lettering pros whose videos, feeds, and blogs are […]
Brush Lettering Video and Pen Review
Brush lettering is only partly about technique, a big part of this form of hand lettering is having the right tools. And that starts with pens! It can be overwhelming when looking for brush lettering pens, so today I am going to do a quick review of 8 of my brush lettering pens, explain what […]
Free Brush Lettering Worksheets
Brush lettering is beautiful. It is aesthetically pleasing to the eye, all bold scoops and loops accented with light, whimsical upstrokes. Entrepreneurs everywhere knew it, they started creating brush lettering fonts, brush lettered signs, and brush lettered quotes to sell you and we all lapped it up. But what if I told you YOU could […]
S1E3: Homeschooling from a Dad’s Point of View
In today’s podcast episode, I managed to drag my (very tired) husband down to my studio in the wee hours of the morning to interview him. Because he was educated in the traditional sense (through the public school) and I was educated at home, trying to blend our styles and preconceived notions about our family […]
GIVEAWAY: How to Start a Bullet Journal in 3 Easy Steps
If you have been wanting to start a bullet journal but don’t have the motivation, money, or know-how to do it, I am going to break it down into 3 easy steps. The best part is, this post is part of a 31 day series ALL ABOUT bullet journaling. So you can find lots of […]
How to Choose Travelers Notebook Inserts
I remember the day my first Traveler’s Notebook (TN) came in the mail, to be quite honest everything else stopped. Everything that had been high on the priority list was bumped, I needed inserts, pronto! Being my first go at it, I wanted to make my own (I wasn’t about to WAIT for them to […]
Bullet Journal Video: Take a Peek Inside my Traveler’s Notebook!
Welcome to the second day of this incredible series: Plan with me for 31 days (Check out the landing page to read the other ones HERE). I spent ALL DAY taking pictures in preparation for this post, I was ready to go and then my husband walked in the door with my brand new inserts. […]
Hacking the Bullet Journal System
As I begin this amazing journey to write exclusively about planning for 31 days, I wanted to set the stage and explain what my planning philosophy, vision, and style is all about. Bullet journaling is taking the world by wildfire, and yet I feel there is still a lot of misconceptions over what it is […]
My Must Have Bible Journaling Supplies
Bible journaling is a relatively new practise with a huge range of expression. For some it might be writing notes in their margins, while others fill their entire pages with art and lettering and doodles and painting. It is a form of creative expression and a way of stepping out to practically live out Deuteronomy 11:18 […]
S1E2: How I Do it All
Homeschool mom’s wear a lot of hats and trying to get everything done is exhausting and sometimes just entirely out of reach. One of the most common questions I get asked is “How do you do it all?” I realized that people see pictures and videos of us homeschooling, they see my very obvious presence […]
Is How we Measure Success Hurting our Kids?
Recently I heard someone refer to a particular child as “so bright” because they were excelling in school and it struck a chord. Referring to a particular child as “bright” is essentially saying they are smarter than the others. It had me questioning by what standard we attribute a child’s intelligence. I have had well-meaning people […]
The Case for Having Kids
How many times have you heard someone tell you why they don’t want to have kids, or why you shouldn’t have kids, or why you should wait to have kids? A simple search on Google brought up 73,000,000 results against having children! Is that seriously happening?!?!?! The idea that kids are holding you down or […]
10 Reasons I Don’t Have Very Many Friends
CONFESSION: I don’t have many friends (gasp!). Most of my friends are my family (sisters, brothers, sisters-in-law, parents, and husband). I do have some external friendships but to be completely honest, there are very few that I put the time and energy into. Before you hate on me, read the reasons WHY this has happened: […]
Yes Kids, It’s Okay to be Rude!
We spend the vast majority of our parenting journey teaching our kids to be nice. We teach them to be kind and caring. We read books on encouraging empathy in our kids and how to foster gentleness in them. It IS important for our children to learn tact, social etiquette and how to be independent members […]
Bringing a Sense of Wonder into our Homeschool
What if we could offer our kids an education that inspired them to wonder? What if we could stop teaching them how to think and what to learn and instead approach teaching like good seasoning– Where we give them just enough to whet their appetite and watch the spark fan into flame? This would be an […]
Unless Someone Like You Cares a Whole Awful Lot…
Have you ever had a moment where you felt you were being asked to do something big? Something beyond yourself and your immediate zone of comfort? I have a real heart for adoption. As some of you know, we can no longer have children, and while we are blessed beyond measure with the 5 beautiful, […]
S1E1: Homeschooling Language Arts
One of the things that I learned about homeschooling language arts is how we run around doing SO MUCH and yet accomplishing very little. We have a quantity approach and yet I think we need a quality approach. Language Arts is infused into everything we do, every subject we teach, every part of our day. […]
10 Reasons I Love my Morning Quiet Time
I love mornings. Sometimes late at night I will be watching TV and see a coffee commercial pop up and I just want to go to bed so that I can wake up again! I love the peace of the morning, the cool crisp air, the hush that has fallen over our house like a snuggly […]
Speaking Words of Life Into My Kids
I want to tell you a story. A story about a goofy little toddler who is rarely dressed in anything resembling a decent outfit. She spends half the time wearing princess costumes and the other half completely naked. She is a wild mixture of chaos and gentleness and she is ALWAYS needing me. One afternoon, […]
Homeschool Looping {Explained and Examples}
I have a few dilemmas in the natural flow of my day. No matter how hard I schedule or plan, we continually seem to hit the same walls. I need some time to myself in the day. I have learned this the hard way. If my mornings are for work, my day time is for […]
The Best Nature Study Curriculum You Don’t Want to Be Without!
The face of homeschooling has changed. It used to be school emulated at home, with little workbooks and little desks and little tests and assignments. But as we discover more about the way children learn, the more we learn about the way they are wired: the less that method of teaching makes sense. While most of us […]
A Monthly Custom Designed Planner Straight to Your Inbox!
Have you heard about the planner circle and are wondering what this is all about? This is not just a group for people to share their planning ideas and spreads and inspire one another (though it is that as well, check out our group: the Planner Circle). This is a place where your ideas are […]
How to Make a Timeline for Your Homeschool
Timelines have long been used as a visual representation of the bigger picture. They help our kids see where events have happened and how that fits in with other important people or moments in history. Back when we were kids we used to have our timeline filling one of our homeschool room walls and would […]
DIY Homeschool Planner for the Artistically Challenged
Homeschool planning, it SHOULD fill us with a sense of peace, knowing that we are going to be organizing lesson plans and goals for the week/month or year. Instead, it often fills us with dread or just feeling completely overwhelmed. I talk a lot about planning on my blog. I share pictures and videos of […]
The Unmathematical Homeschool Mom’s Guide to Teaching Math
As a homeschool curriculum advisor (I help people choose curriculum), I have learned the top two subjects that strike dread into the heart of parent’s everywhere: math and language arts (watch this video to see my top recommendation for LA). Today I want to talk to the math moms (and dads) who might be reading this. […]
Womens Devotional and Bible Journaling Supplies
Bible journaling is becoming one of the newest fads inside Christian circles. It can vary from writing notes in your margins (which we have been doing for years) to complete art plastered all over the page of the actual scripture. There are some conflicting opinions on how far is “too far” with Bible journaling, but […]
10 Surprising Benefits of Teaching Our Kids to Cook
Spilled flour, eggshell pieces in the bowl, cut fingers and burned pots… this is what I picture when I think of my kids in the kitchen. I love the IDEA of teaching my kids to cook, but the actual follow through of that has been harder than I anticipated. Every time I let them “help” […]
Why A Beka Curriculum Did Not Work for Me
If you are a homeschooler you have probably heard about A Beka. They are one of the longest standing homeschool curriculum providers, and actually what I grew up using as a child. The books are bright and incredibly comprehensive and fill me with a nostalgic sense of comfort. My first year homeschooling I bought all […]
Why Don’t we Talk About the Cleaning Second Wind?
I am not a runner. I want to be a runner. I am kind of like run stalker, you know, in that I’m a walker 😉 I have talked to a few runners in my day, explaining that I get dizzy, blackout, chest pain. I mean, when I run, my body starts to shut down… […]
Hands On Curriculum That Will Make Science Fun Again!
Science curriculum gave me a bad taste in my mouth and I’m going to tell you why… it was either insanely overpriced (for just one grade mind you, and I needed 3) or boring as all get out. I was beginning to get discouraged with the whole idea, Science was supposed to be fun right? […]
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