Boldly going where no gingerbread has gone before!
Crafting Joy!
Hi all,
It has been awhile but we have been busy. Twinzy Toys are now in production and available for sale on Etsy. The blog will soon be redesigned so there might be a few glitches and edits but I think it will be for the best in the long run. The blog will also be integrated with Etsy to make for one easy stop to do your Twinzy shopping.
Before we get to that though there is something more immediate to attend to. A Booster.com fundraiser was launched a few days ago to buy sewing machines for students to help them pursue their fashion design dreams. The funds will also buy Twinzy Toys for preschoolers here in Battle Creek and our Sister Cities of Santo Andre Brazil and Takasaki Japan to enable cultural exchange. Please check it out at the link below and buy a shirt or pass on the link to someone who might.
Twinzy Booster
Thanks!
Ms Mickens Sews Again!!
So, Ms Mickens of Battle Creek Central continues to move Twinzy forward with each new prototype. Following are more pictures of the various models we are experimenting with. A few of the details are still being worked out at the print shop for the final details but the day when kits and dolls will be available on Etsy is steadily approaching.
Our lovely daughter was kind enough to take a break from Sunday morning festivities with “Tangled” and word puzzles to indulge my long overdue blog post photo op request. These models are black and white and the idea is to also add a limited run with original colors pre printed as well. For those more inclined to DIY they can purchase a kit or a finished doll and sew and/or color it themselves. For that intrepid bunch please be sure to use child safe paints and share your creations by sending us pictures of the process and final product!
Mari Richards’ Puppet Show (and Tell)
7 Super Fun DIY Sock Puppets
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I distinctly remember a phase of my younger years when puppets were the only thing I wanted to make. There were marionettes and regular pancake puppets, a foam ball head with arms and sticks à la The Muppets. And, of course, there were sock puppets. Unfortunately, they were made from really worn out 1980s socks.
It’s clear crafting has come a long way since 1985. You can even buy a pre-fab craft kit filled with fresh, clean, brightly colored socks and lots of crafty bits. But I think we’re all itching to make our own versions—to heck with pre-fab, I want to pick my materials myself. I also love finding crafts that you can get creative with after the craft is done—time for a puppet show!
Meet The Contributor
Mari Richards is a shiny object addict, closet pianist, and all around creative-type. With 400+ designs and 30+ industry awards, she is a freelance product designer and a design blogger at Small for Big.
Designing Worlds heads into the clouds with the new way to access Second Life – SL Go
In an exciting new development, Second Life will be going into the Clouds with OnLive’s new SL Go package. The news has been announced by Linden Lab today – and you’ll be able to find out more in our special Designing Worlds show at 2pm SLT today, where we talk to Nate Barsetti, Senior Manager, Customer Relations, OnLive, and also Danger Linden, aka Don Laabs, Senior Director of Product at Linden Lab. The show will be followed by a live discussion in our Garden of Dreams studio, which will be streamed live on Aview.TV.
SL Go on the Android
SL Go is launching today in its open beta format, and offers the opportunity to access Second Life on tablets (although not yet on iPads).
But it’s much, much more than this – you will also be able to access SL Go through the OnLive micro-console to TVs, or…
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The Minecraft Experience at Games for Change, NYC, April 2014
Amazing that such a simple concept and interface can generate such a following. I think the success of minecraft speaks to the power of tapping into fundamentals human needs such as manipulating/exploring our world.
In 2011, when Mincraft was a beta-game with 100,000 players and not the 1,000,000 it has today – a small idea called Massively Minecraft took flight. It’s main activity was to enable children and adults to play on a server which attempted to allow children to develop ‘digital skills’ based loosely on ISTE’s NETs for students. Today we’re launching a new project around Minecraft — building the right drivers in home, school and research.
I’m thrilled to be feel like I’m at the centre of it, both as a parent and now as a games researcher. Minecraft represents a unique media-phenomenon and has clearly been taken in remarkable new directions by the community. There is no one ‘best’ way to play, teach or parent around this game in particular. Unlike much of the technological determinism associated with technology and children, Minecraft has achieved what educational software and culture hasn’t. It…
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Our Spring Dining Room
Love the Daffodils. Hopefully the outside will see this through your window and remember how to be warm and green again.
I’m too chicken to drive whenever it’s snowing, or if there is snow/ice on the roads. I haven’t been antique shopping since before December. So when we had a little break with clear roads this weekend I was outta here! I drove to all my favorite antique spots and to the local green spot to get some springy plants to scatter around our house for some much needed cheering up. Enough of this cold snowy winter I tell ya!!
This cheery pot of daffodils became the center of the spring table arrangement in my big dough bowl. I added some moss balls, eggs, and cabbage heads.
I found many new ironstone pieces at really good prices while I was out. Here is one of the little servers on the plate rail. I threw in some faux sprigs in the mercury glass vase.
On the other side, I placed a couple…
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The poser girl for a stressed out generation
I think with the advent of better analytics and access to technology curriculum will be more individualized and dynamic. It is also important to remember that imagination and creativity is a more precious commodity than ever and with ubiquitous access to information value is shifting to the synthesis of data into information and then the meaningul insight from that information vs. rote memorization.
Celebrate One Billion Rising again with Designing Worlds – now on the web!
Designing Worlds show about the wonderful One Billion Rising event is now on the web!
We talk to Victor Mornington, who created the fabulous stage, to Taralyn Gravois, who curated the fantastic art installations, to Samantha Ohrberg, who organised the amazing music programme, to JuJu Apollo Starr, the stage manager lead, and to Jilly Kidd, who organised the poetry sessions. And we learn more about some of the individual art installations with artists Mikati Slade, Krystali Rabeni, Reuben Mayo, Finn Lanzius and Betty Tureaud.
The Stage at One Billion Rising
We also something more of the live event – both the musical side, and the poetry sessions as well. It’s a great show – don’t miss it!
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