Month: August 2013

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69 Days – Why Wait for a Great Pizza?

Spooky cat and scarecrow-shaped pizzas

As an artist, I’m always looking for a medium with which I can create something wonderful; food can be a whole lot of fun to play with. Rich colors and varied textures and flavors provide the tools to create a culinary masterpiece! These fun pizzas were featured on the SheKnows Parenting website; here’s the link and you can find the recipes are in

A Harvest and Halloween Handbook


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74 Days, The Art of Play

This late summer season provides beautiful weather 
for enjoying the great outdoors. 
Take your picnic up a notch on the “enjoyability” scale by 
bringing along the arts to your celebration. Drawing, watercolor, music and other forms of artistic expression may bring added depth and pleasure to your outings.
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75 Days – Do You Know Where Your Buttons Are?

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Make fun and easy bracelets with buttons and beads. My favorite is the one on the top that was made by stringing buttons and tying ribbons on a small black garland, like a pipe cleaner. The others are beads strung on elastic and tied with a bow or with a silk leaf glued on.. These bracelets can be made for a party activity, worn by princesses or given as gifts.
From a Harvest and Halloween Handbook eBook available on Amazon and B&N
 
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76 Days ’til Halloween – a Compelling Mystery

Now is a good time to start planning a Halloween Mystery House. An intelligent alternative to the run-of the-mill haunts that pop up in the fall, a Mystery House is a more subtle adventure – think Nancy Drew or Sherlock Holmes. Invent a problem, a solution and all the steps necessary to gather information and come up with an brilliant deduction. The result? Elementary my dear Watson…

 from

 http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Halloween-Handbook-Artisan-ebook/dp/B009PA8ON6/?keywords=pam+mcmurtry&qid=1374845872&ref=sr_1_1&ie=UTF8&sr=8-1
and
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-harvest-and-halloween-handbook-pam-mcmurtry/1116031757?ean=2940148379744 

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77 Days… Before You Clean Your Closets, Check This Out.

These three cute kids are wearing costumes that cost $0! 

The letter man jacket was Dad’s, 
the pumpkin costume was passed along by a friend 
and the cute scarecrow was collected out of several closets.

With a little creativity you can rock 
Halloween without spending anything!

For a few dollars, you can have a bag of jelly beans.


I’d love to see your best costume ideas and 
how much they cost or (didn’t cost).

http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Halloween-Handbook-Artisan-ebook/dp/B009PA8ON6/?keywords=pam+mcmurtry&qid=1374845872&ref=sr_1_1&ie=UTF8&sr=8-1



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78 Days – Summer Fun and Inviting Fairies

In the cutest book, Fairyopolis, artist Cicely Barker
describes a summer she spent in England trying to find fairies.
If you want to know how she well she succeeded, 
you’ll need to read her story, 
especially the last few days of summer.
In the meantime, if you want fairies at your Halloween party, 
you might build them a little party house, or pick up a doll house at a thrift store and fix it up for them. They love recycling and helping the less-fortunate. And they are very tidy according to Cicely.

Did you know fairies sleep in flower beds?

Fairies are like artists; they like to recycle 
and they don’t waste anything. 

They keep tidy little kitchens, I need a house fairy! 

For more fairy easy harvest and Halloween ideas – see

http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Halloween-Handbook-Artisan-ebook/dp/B009PA8ON6/?keywords=pam+mcmurtry&qid=1374845872&ref=sr_1_1&ie=UTF8&sr=8-1

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-harvest-and-halloween-handbook-pam-mcmurtry/1116031757?ean=2940148379744