For years my friend Karen has been inviting us to come up to her cabin in the U.P. and we finally took her up on the offer. After we arrived it took Miika about 48 hours to stop whining about boredom and the fear of bears and wolves. The remedy? A bag of peanuts [...]

We had so many magical moments at this week’s Building & Nature camp! Each day as we entered Thatcher Woods for our nature discovery, we were visited by beautiful butterflies: Mourning Clokes, Monarchs, Painted Ladies, Skippers, and a Summer Azure to name a few. We walked down a path following two bucks who tolerated us [...]

The weather was God-given today. I could not have asked for a more beautiful day. After yesterday’s storms and tornadoes, it was such a relief to wake up to sunshine and a cool breeze. Our much anticipated chalk mural went off without a hitch. The kids had so much fun and I was SO proud [...]

Butterflies, handmade games, learning about our heritage, multi-media….just a few of the activities that have filled our recent days at Little Bits Camp. We kicked of this week by visiting the butterfly exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo.

Today, I was blown away by how beautiful the girls’ acrylic butterfly paintings came out. Each canvas was made [...]

Today was day two of camp and we have a nice group of kids who are so eager to create and learn. We’re exploring our heritage, finding our countries on the map, making a book about we learn and listening to music from around the world. Kids are also learning to create handmade toys from [...]

Today kids from Sabina’s Daycare of Westchester came to the workshop and I think it’s fair to say that they all surprised themselves by creating such beautiful game boxes. From cereal boxes, buttons, wall paper samples and an upcycled cigar box, they created a game of checkers contained in a chalkboard box. The challenge was [...]

Last week I went rummaging through a thrift store in Maywood looking for the perfect junk. When I brought the cart to the counter I felt like I needed to apologize or explain why I was purchasing such an odd pile of odds & ends which looked like the “FREE” box that you stick out [...]

Every night we have a tradition of stories, prayers and a secret…It’s the same secret every night. Miika won’t let me leave the room until I recite it. I won’t let it out of the bag, I’ll just say that it’s a confidence-builder—something the mirror on the wall would say if it could talk.

As I [...]

I’m always dropping my phone or leaving my keys somewhere. And I can’t stand having them in my pocket…sometimes I don’t have pockets. So, it dawned on me that an apron was the perfect solution. This one is my second one because Miika told me she was tired of seeing my green one. In it’s [...]

There’s nothing quite like letting 12 girls between the ages of 6 and 12 loose in a studio full of treasures, paint, glue, ribbons and inspiration! What a blast to watch them create! The energy level tipped the Richtor scale. They were intensely engaged to say the least.
Our project? Altering books that became Secret Journals. [...]