I am a huge fan of thank you notes. Any kind of notes really but I especially love thank yous. This time of year our family has a list a mile long of things to be grateful for and people to whom we should be grateful. We are pretty good about writing thank yous. Some [...]

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The thing about the blog world is, that once something goes away it kind of goes away. Even though it still lives in the ether worlds, which is a far cry better than the nether worlds, it kind of vanishes. Until one brings it back again!! These yoga  pants from a t-shirt are one of [...]

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When a tragedy strikes, like the wildfires in Central Texas that are still happening right now, many of us want to know what we can do. In the beginning, it’s sometimes unclear. What are the immediate needs? Money. Food. Clothing. But once you collect them, where should they go? The Austin American Statesman made a [...]

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Because of some schedule conflicts with the Zilker PTA budget team we are changing the swap from Saturday to Sunday. The new date is  SUNDAY, AUGUST 28th!!!from 10am – 2pm. Zilker Elementary 1900 Bluebonnet! Yes folks! It’s time!!! Time for the Zilker Elementary 4th annual clothes swap brought to you by Future Craft Collective, Andrea’s [...]

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The official countdown here on our end of town is 8 more days of school, not counting today of course. If you are doing the math in weeks, that means less than 2 full weeks to go. If you are doing the math in how much time a parent actually has before the final school [...]

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You know that one of the goals of Future Craft Collective is to help kids learn the beauties of being a maker. We want to help them get back to the scrape, scrounge, dig, build, create approach to things. We’re not afraid of a little  technology time, believe you me, but we believe all things [...]

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 It’s that time of year again! Time for my favorite holiday of the year. Time for paper crafts and love and chocolate all on one day! This year we are oh so lucky that Valentines falls on a Monday this year. That means you have all weekend to cut and paste and stitch and draw [...]

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We made these pink grapefruit jack o lanterns last year and had a blast. Made lots of them actually. And then made some more. It doesn’t hurt that the red grapefruits of Texas are so damn tasty! Here’s how you make them…

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Need a simple end of summer project? Maybe you could capture all the goodness of summer, all the sleeping in, all the night swims, all the frozen yumminess, all the family gatherings and picnics and floats on the lake, and put it in your very own magic wand. You can find out how right here [...]

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My pre-teen gal Lucy has been pondering lately what to call play dates with her mates. You see, she doesn’t really want to call them play dates anymore. And I admit, I never really liked the term all that much anyway. She decided recently, as she was planning some long awaited hang time with her [...]

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