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The bookshelves in my son’s room have had such tired overflowing look for a while that I could no longer ignore their plea to be freed of some of those books that are far too young for my so grown up boy.  In the attempt of making space for new books I have started piling [...]

There are some bedtime stories we keep going back to time and time again. The Tiger Who Came to Tea is one of them. It was a huge success when my then 3 year old son received it as a present from his grandmother. The simple fantastical story and the old fashion illustrations were such big [...]

For our fourth and final post in the Todd Oldham’s kid Made Modern series we picked the storage wheel inspired by Ray and Charles Eames. This is a very enjoyable project especially because we used only materials we had in the house and we came up with a finished product that is actually useful. On [...]

This is the third part of a four-post series about crafts inspired by Todd Oldham’s book, Kid Made Modern published by Ammo Books. The previous two posts featured a cork effect vase and wooden spoon dolls. This week we made a cushion out of an old cotton sheet, which we hand printed with potato stamps.  [...]

It’s amazing what a difference a few months can make in the realm of bilingualism. Back in September my six year old was not at all keen on speaking his minority language and although he understood everything he insisted in answering in Italian. Soon after starting school he showed more of an effort to speak [...]

This is the second in a 4-post series about crafts inspired by Todd Oldham’s book, Kid Made Modern published by Ammo Books. If you missed last week’s post, click on the link to see the cork effect vase.
This week we picked the wooden spoon friends inspired by Alexander’s Girard’s beautiful wooden dolls that he [...]

I love crafts and I love books so when I was contacted by Ammo Books for a review of the new crafts book Kid Made Modern by artist Todd Oldham I couldn’t wait to receive it. I knew it was coming from the US so I expected it to take a little while to get [...]