Blogging Tips (How to Write Beside A Photo)

Thanks Cheryl, for posting your questions!
Cheryl asked, "Do you know how to place 2 photos beside each other- or how to write beside a photo?"



How to write beside a Photo

Blogger makes this one easy. All you have to do is:

1. Upload your photo as usual, by clicking on the "Add Image" icon at the top of the compose window.

2. When the image adding window (I made up that name) comes up, make sure you've selected either "Left" or "Right" under "Choose a Layout".


If you choose left, your photo will be to the left, and your type will be to the right. If you choose right, your photo will be on the right, type to the left.
3. Add your text(before the photo if you chose "Right", after the photo if you chose "Left"), and you're done!

I'll post the answer to her other question tomorrow.

New Bike

We visited my parents yesterday, out of town.
We had a lovely day.
We went to the park.
Katrina didn't nap.
Grandma & Grandpa watched the girls for a couple of hours & Mommy & Daddy went on a spur of the moment date.
We ate ice cream cake.
We stayed late (for the girls).
And we drove home happy.

On the way home, we picked up a bike that we bought for Talia on kijiji.
When we got home it was late, it was dark, Katrina was asleep.

But Ken set up the bike & Talia got to ride it around in pajamas, in the magic of the night and all things sparkly, girly, and princessy. It was a great day & a lovely end to the day.



p.s. I know I went another Monday without a post (sorry Rachelle;) There WILL be one next Monday, I promise! There are more posts to come, I just need to catch up with everything after this long weekend.

True Meaning of Easter

We don't expect the Easter Bunny to show up here until tomorrow, but this morning the girls had a little egg hunt designed by their parents. :) We hid plastic eggs that had paper pieces inside of them. (From an old issue of The Friend Magazine)

After all of the eggs were found, we put the papers in order & read the Easter Story. I was surprised how much Talia rememebered from the one other time this week that we talked about the story.

We had a few eggs left over, so we put goldfish crackers in one, cheerios in one, gummy bear vitamins in one, and coloured marshmallows in one. This video catches Katrina's reaction when she opened one of the eggs with treats in it- it was so cute! :)

After the hunt, Talia announced that there was just enough sugar! lol This girl is health conscious somehow! :) They really enjoyed this hunt even though most of the eggs only had paper in them, and the ones that had treats weren't too out of the ordinary. Just goes to show you that they really don't need all of the extra sugar that we tend to give them! (However, I think that only applies upto a certain age, because I certainly love getting good chocolate ;)

Fun Printable Easter Egg Game

I found this printable game for springtime, to play with your plastic eggs & we have had a lot of fun with it!

DIY Babylegs!

I have a pair of rainbow stripe babylegs that I LOVE that I bought when Talia was a baby, and now Katrina wears them. I love babylegs, but I don't always feel that I can afford them (I drool over them though, I think they're adorable!!)

Anyway, I have seen some tutorials online for making your own "babylegs" out of knee socks. It is SUPER easy. And when I saw knee socks for $1.25 at our dollar store, I picked out a cute pink argyle pair to try it out!

It took me like 5 minutes- probably less.

Sorry I don't have a better photo for you- it's hard to catch this girl!

How to Do It:

1. cut off the feet, above the ankles
2. turn the legs inside out
3. sew a little hem
4. turn them right side out
5. there's no 5. You're done!

You better believe I'll be picking up a few more pairs next time I'm at the dollar store!

Here are a couple of tutorials with options & step by step photos (also, I'm sure you could google it & find more).

Hand Stitch (I used a machine for mine, but basically followed this tutorial)
With Cuffs (I didn't want to bother with cuffs, but the option is there!)

Month in Review - March 2010

Welcome April! :)

In March I made a couple of changes to the blog:

- a new background
- a new dropdown menu at the top of the blog (this took a lot of coding, so if you're checking it out & find any links that don't work right, please let me know!)
- a handy little tabbed feature at the bottom of the blog that will hopefully make navigating a little easier and the blog less cluttered.
Check it out! :)



1. A Mess of Balloons Birthday Party
2. Table Setting Placemat
3. DIY Babylegs (this post is coming tomorrow)
4. Angel Hair for Kids
5. Alphabet Movement Cards
6. Word Cards
7. Virtual Paper Doll Bunny
8. Easter Egg Reading Hunt
9. Mixing Colours and Melting Ice Cubes
10. An Organized Toy System (Guest Post by Jenn at A Joyous Journey)
11. Rainbow Cupcakes (oops, this won't be posted until April- I'll add the link then ;)
12. 5 Minute Chocolate Cake