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  Summer Time Activities As school is drawing to a close, and everyone is antsy to get through these last few snow day make-up days, you might be wracking your brain for how to keep the kids busy this summer. Sure, you want them (and you!) to have some time to relax, but you also want to embrace the summer. Here is a list of ways to make this a summer your kids will look back on with fondness for years to come. Outside Free Play During the spring, summer, and fall, I take the kids outside every day (unless...

  Father’s Day is rolling around and it’s time to start planning! It’s such a wonderful day to show fathers how much they are appreciated and loved, and there’s no better way to do that than through a homemade gift or a heartfelt act of service. Here are some loving ways to show the fathers in your life that they are appreciated: Homemade Card Homemade cards are a big hit for all ages. They can be folded into fun origami shapes, personalized in a number of ways, and decorated in every artistic way imaginable. Sometimes the hardest thing to come...

  It's been two years since we first launched our Owl Pillow followed by a string of other pillows.  When we were creating our first product,  Zoey wanted to include a personalized letter,  A Thank You Note.  As a 5 year old, it was important to her to leave our customers with something special.  She even drew a sunshine picture with flowers.   As we are getting ready to launch new products, she redesigned her thank you letter.  She wrote several different letters with different words and phrases before settling on "The One." To be honest, I really wanted to use...

Zoey’s Art began with Zoey’s first birthday. At the time, the trendy thing to do was a first birthday cake smash, but I just didn’t feel like that was for us. I personally try to keep sweets and dyes to a minimum, so suddenly introducing them to a birthday cake seemed like a bad idea. I also didn’t like the idea of wasting a cake. I wanted something that I could keep and remember for years to come. That’s when I came up with the idea to do a First Birthday Paint Party! I chose painting because art has always...