Posted on October 3rd, 2014 by sitwithakid
We spent today at the Heartland Fall Forum, put on by the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association in partnership with the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. The combined membership represents several hundred booksellers. “The Heartland Fall Forum is a regional trade show that supports and celebrates independent bookselling.” [from their website] Nikki Johnson, Joy Dey, and […]
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Posted on October 1st, 2014 by sitwithakid
Here at Sit With A Kid, we obviously (see our motto) believe in spending time laughing, playing, and reading together. Teaching kindness by example is the best way we know to prevent bullying. That said, let’s start with the bad. Did you know… 1 in 4 kids are bullied at school? 40% of children report […]
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Posted on August 7th, 2013 by sitwithakid
Picture Frame Scheduler (Dry Erase and Stickies!) Day Five – 30 Days of SWAK SWAK is getting bigger and busier! We’re trying different ways to keep on top of things (including the ever lovely google calendar). Here’s our latest and greatest: It needs some filling in, but did you see the Austin Artworks event on […]
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Posted on July 30th, 2013 by sitwithakid
Snack Packs (& Bridge Fest) Day Four – 30 Days of SWAK Earlier this month (on the 6th), we were given the opportunity to have a booth at the Duluth Bridge Fest. We got to be in the kids tent between a traveling origamist and the Lake Superior Zoo – there was face painting, hula […]
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Posted on July 27th, 2013 by sitwithakid
Trifold Activity Day Three – 30 Days of SWAK The grandkids spent last week up at Grandma and Grandpa’s for their annual summer kids’ camp. They had a lot of fun and took some great pictures of a few activities they did. One set was of a game I LOVED to play when I was […]
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Posted on July 25th, 2013 by sitwithakid
Felt Logos (or any graphic) Day Two – 30 Days of SWAK I re-purposed this idea from a pinterest link for superhero templates (http://www.juxtapost.com/site/permlink/19cdb680-bb6b-11e1-ae07-094976c3de87/post/superhero_templates/). I figured we fell into this category, too – but they forgot to add our logo to the list… No worries – I’ll take care of that for them. The final […]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2013 by sitwithakid
Fimo Agate Slices Day One – 30 Days of SWAK Welcome to the first day of our Tour de SWAK. Our first craft is in honor of Agate. Thanks Jenny for this great tutorial (on the polymer clay central page) – the original post is here: http://polymerclaycentral.com/faux_agate.html. I followed it very closely and recommend taking a […]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2013 by sitwithakid
Hi again! It’s summertime and we haven’t blogged, posted, pinned, or tweeted in a while. To get ourselves back up and running we’re planning on doing a … …jump start. It will actually be closer to 60 days as we’ll spend one day crafting, compiling, and colluding for you and write it up as […]
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