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Online Things

May 12, 2012
Online Things

The big kids are outside chasing the chickens (what’s left of them after the fox attacked this week in broad day light!) and the small child is playing with the trains and I am putting off doing other things… so thought I’d share some of the things I’ve enjoyed online this week. Where’s My Glow [...]

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Sustainable Living Links and Pins

May 5, 2012
Sustainable Living Links and Pins

During the week I flew up to Sydney to join the Kleenex Cottonelle Pin to Make a Difference event. The idea was that everyone pinned as many sustainable living ideas on their Pin4Good pinterest board as we could in fifteen minutes. You can find most of the pins from the event here on the Kleenex [...]

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Lovely Links – Garden Pretties…

February 4, 2012
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I think I may have an unhealthy obsession with bird houses…. I need a collection of these. I’m pretty sure I could make a tea pot bird house. We’ve grown gourds before but never done anything with them. And I’ve just decided what the kids are getting for Christmas next year! I am trying to [...]

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20 Last Minute Gifts You Can Make For Your Kids.

December 17, 2011
20 Last Minute Gifts You Can Make For Your Kids.

Looking for some last minute gift ideas for the kids in your life? Lets get a little crafty and avoid the shops, here’s a list of ideas to help you do it! 1. Download some audio books and put them on an mp3 player, or burn them to a CD. 2. Make your own colouring [...]

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Twelve Things to Cook This Christmas.

December 10, 2011
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I don’t know why, but I always get the urge to bake things at this time of year. It’s a little crazy considering it has just started to get hot here, and we are crazy busy, so standing in front of a hot stove isn’t exactly relaxing, but still…. there is something about Christmas that [...]

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Six Eco Friendly Gifts to Make and an Itty Bitty Greenie Competition!

December 3, 2011
Six Eco Friendly Gifts to Make and an Itty Bitty Greenie Competition!

Are you making your Christmas gift list? Do you wish you could give some more eco-friendly gifts? Here are some ideas for eco-friendly gifts you can make. Three ideas you can make for the kids, and three ideas the kids and you can make for adults. For the Kids… Tree House. We made this tree [...]

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Ten Christmas Decorations to Make.

November 26, 2011
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Have you decorated for the holidays yet? At The Pickle Farm, we don’t break out the Christmas decorations or put up the Christmas tree till the first weekend in December. So we’ve still got a week or so to figure out how we are going to tackle the problem of Christmas tree Vs climbing chaos-making [...]

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5 Fab Free Audio Books for Kids.

November 12, 2011
5 Fab Free Audio Books for Kids.

My big kids love listening to audio books. We listen in the car, on ipods while waiting at appointments, and while falling asleep at night. We have a small selection of audio books on CD and have borrowed CDs from the library, but there is an amazing selection of spoken stories online, many of them [...]

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