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When our friends over at Playing by the Book announced their Annual Edible Book Competition… we just knew we had to join in!!! And just like our entry for last year it literally took us weeks to think of an idea that we could all agree on. And I tell you the truth the more […]

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It has been a crazy weekend… I just surfaced and it is Wednesday!!! I have been so busy putting our Annual Sketchbook Project together… Once a year our family pretends to be real artist/illustrators and writers and we put together a book for The SketchBook Project. This year’s theme was “Travelogue” and I have this […]

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After weeks and weeks of being under the weather we are starting to get our craftiness back in hand and this week our children got stuck in and made themselves some I SPY photographs… My kids absolutely love and adore Eye Spy books… honestly I love them just as much as they do!!! Just the […]

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We did say that we would have GiveAways on our blog all week long… Let’s take a look at todays GiveAway: Dorling Kindersley has the most amazing sticker activity books on earth… a whole series of them in fact: These might look like a couple of Sticker books… but they are not!!! Or should I […]

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It has been a while since I had a little girl who was wild about fairies and since fairy parties were the order of the day… everyday!!! But suddenly this past summer we had two small girls of just the right age: the moment between everything being just too tricky for little hands and too […]

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Recently, Playing by the book had a fantastic competition on her blog, and it was all about creating an edible book. Honestly I don’t think we had made too many book inspired meals and it took us ages to agree on just the perfect book!!! We entered as a family were able to create two […]

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While the Crafty Crow is having a month of book loving we have been loving books ourselves. One of our favorite, favorite picture books is: Augustus and His Smile. He pops up all over the place… Even climbing out of the recycling bin… So we decided to do some book illustration…. We began with some […]

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