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All kids love bubbles, and it seems they are everywhere all summer long. I love bubbles too, but I hate those cheap, plastic bubble wands that come with them. They get lost so easily and are often so short that they get dropped into the bottle and are hard to retrieve. Then […]
Chica and I love to travel. It seems like as soon as we return home from a trip, we are already online looking up our next destination. Part of me wishes I could just leave my suitcases packed so I am all ready for the next adventure! But alas, eventually I must unpack […]
When some friends of mine moved recently, they were eager to get rid of as much as they could to avoid having to pack it and move it. They had a giant bag full of saved corks that never got used for a project and asked me if I wanted them. I was […]
I had this very unwieldy stack of tissue paper lying on my gift wrapping shelf. Whenever I wanted a piece, I had to get the whole stack down, fold, unfold, separate and basically excavate in order to get the color I wanted and the number of pieces I wanted. Surely, there was a […]
Remember the last project you completed that relied heavily on a hot glue gun? I’ll bet by the time you were done, it had lots of those dangling “spider web” threads of hot glue all over it. As careful as you try to be, those things just seem to be impossible to avoid. […]
Every now and then, my husband comes up with a brilliant idea. His most recent one involved Chica & Jo ordering custom rubber stamps for our image logo and for our URL. I was very skeptical at first thinking it would be prohibitively expensive and difficult to do. I poked around […]








