Virtual Convention

You have heard me rave about the Well Planned Day planners before. They constantly impress me and once again I am excited to share with you another of their great ideas!

Virtual Homeschool Convention

And the best part…it is FREE! Yup I said FREE!

So right from the comforts of your own home, you can pour a cup of tea/coffee and start browsing the convention hall. There are five different halls that you can browse through.

1. Main hall
2. Family/TV media
3. Homeschool 101
4. Explore curriculum
5. Exhibit hall

You can experience vendor workshops, homeschooling workshops with guests like Ken Ham & Dr. Jay Wile, and vendor booths. The workshops start April 2nd so there is still time to register.

This experience has great features as well. As you browse through the vendor hall you can add booths to your agenda. You can chat with friends online, chat with product reps, and of course…shop.

The idea of saving my feet from pure exhaustion is very appealing!

What do you think about using the online forum for homeschool conventions? Will you be walking the halls of your local conventions?

She thinks it…He builds it!

I can't be the only one this happens to. Browsing the blog community and come across a great idea. I can do that, you say and next thing you know you are in the home improvement/craft store looking for the little treasures you read about.

With stars in my eyes, I recently discovered a DIY headboard from Thrifty Décor Chic and off to home depot I went to buy my piece of wood for our very own DIY headboard.

This would be a good time to mention I am less than handy.

No worries the nice home depot man cut it for me! I brought it home sharing my idea with my hubby and he smiled encouragingly. The girls and I were hard at work and created this headboard using fabric from an old curtain.   
  

zebra print headboard

It went well and so I was hooked! I wanted to make another for our shabby chic French country bedroom. Using the other half of our board and an $8 drop cloth from Home Depot, we headed back to the garage.
   
Remember how I said I wasn’t handy? Well I couldn’t even staple the staples into the board. HA!



Enter my HandyMan…J. Before we knew it our headboard was getting revamped. Instead of just a boring old fabric-covered board, J suggested framing it with a trim piece. And so we started over.

First we pulled out all my staples…yes all 10 of them! No judging please. We made a quick run up to Home Depot where J found some trim pieces that we could use to frame the headboard. Then we used the trim piece as our measuring device and cut the foam where from the board where the trim piece will now be attached. In case you were wondering…

I helped clamp the trim piece to the board!

This would be a great time to note that I LOVE working in the garage with J. He puts up with all my crazy ideas and most of the time, makes my visions become reality.



He then used a few staples to attach the remaining foam to the board. Originally I used spray adhesive but J felt this would be more reliable.









Then we recovered the board with the drop cloth and a few staples. This time J did the stapling and it went MUCH smoother.



Time for my contribution to the project! I painted the trim pieces. While the paint was drying my mind was racing. I have LOTS of ideas and instead of watching paint dry, why not get started on that next project!

Yes that IS how my mind works.

“Oh hey, can we cut that mat for the picture?”  More on that later!

Part two of the headboard project coming soon!

This is How We Roll…

This week we are schooling “on the road.” Since my husband travels for work, we get to tag along on some of the trips. This week I will get to visit my cousin and her beautiful family in south Florida AND do some school.

Did I mention how the kids are thrilled about that?

School on the go can be a daunting task. So I thought I would share what we do. Maybe it will spark some ideas of your own next time you have to pack it up and take it on the road. The first thing I do is plan how much time we will actually spend doing school. Since my husband is working during the day, we are spending our mornings doing work. This leaves our afternoons and evenings open for fun. Once I have the big picture, then I start packing!

My bag is filled with teacher books, reading material, colored pencils, stories on CD, my Well-Planned Day calendar and even a scrapbooking project I want to get started on. I also have a 3-ring binder that is not in the picture. I packed up my teacher notes from Tapestry of Grace and my lessons plans.

And that, ladies, is how we roll!