This months craft that was published in Clarksville Family Magazine was all about summer vacation. We aren’t going far from home this year. I believe the popular term now a days is “Stay-cations” instead of vacations.
Well – to keep my kids from getting bored, or bugging us too much with “what are we going to do today”, I got them involved. First we sat down and came up with every idea we could of what we wanted to do this summer. We ended-up with a huge list, so we had to come up with a way to make it more organized so we’ll get it all done.
I came up with the idea of giving each week a theme. Such as: Water Week, Museum Week, Fairy Week and more. I was able to put almost all the ideas that we had come up with during the family meeting under one of these categories.
Then we made a memory book. On each double page, we wrote down the weekly theme (they don’t have to be in order, just put them in!) For example – the kids had put the pool at Aunt Paige’s, the Water Park and the sprinkler – that became water week. Animal Week includes visit the zoo, a local farm, going to Build A Bear and making a wild animal, and making animal masks.
We have already had MONSTER week (finished it Friday!) We saw Beauty and the Beast at the Roxy *and we put our tickets in our book; went to see Shrek 3 (tickets are glued in the book), made monster-sized cookies (took photos for the book) and we watch a family movie of “where the wild things are” (found a photo of the book online for the book). We went to the zoo – and saw the crocodiles, tigers and anaconda. All monsters. You get the idea – make a list, find common ideas, assign themes, get creative with additional theme based ideas, then get out there. The full article can be found in the Clarksville Family Magazine or on their website.
What theme weeks do you think will be fun to try? Here are a few more of our plans:
| Water Week | Fairy Week | History Week |
| Go fishing | Make fairy wings | Clarksville Monuments |
| Run the sprinkler | Make fairy masks | Clarksville Driving Tour |
| Go to pool | Have a fairy party | Trail of Tears |
| Water Park | Make fairy houses | Nashville Monuments |
| Visit all Clarksville Water (river, fountains, creeks, etc) |
| Bubble Week | Museum Week | Animal Week |
| Make our own bubbles. | Visit the Customs House Museum | Go to the Zoo |
| Go to bubble room at Custom’s House Museum | Visit Ft. Campbell Museums | Visit a farm |
| Learn to blow bubbles with bubble gum | Visit the Adventure Science Museum | See Charlotte’s Web at The Children’s Theatre in Nashville |
| TN State Museum | Make animal masks |
| Cooking Week | Have A Ball Week |
| Cook breakfast | Go bowling |
| Cook lunch | Play putt putt |
| Cook dinner | Play soccer |
| Cook desserts | Play tee ball |
Have fun!!! Then come back here and share what you did!
See you downtown – Cheers!
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I love glass, vintage colored glass, glass bottles, glass ornaments, vintage glass jewelry – all things glass. And to top it off, my kids are finally old enough that I can start having a few more glass items around without being overly worried that it will all be broken soon. (would you believe that my kid broke some of my glass bottles just a few hours after I typed this?!!) …but anyway…
I have learn a lot about real vintage glass since we opened, I started with learning about the basics - Anchor Hocking Forest Green, Sandwich Glass, Bubble, Fire King Swirl and Blue Mosaic are some popular vintage glass patterns that are easy enough for a novice to pick out among at the dime store glass at a thrift store, and I definitely qualify as a novice.
Jo Rhoads, a vendor that has been with ARTifacts since we opened, has some truly antique, truly special glass pieces.
Love the pattern on this vintage cake stand – the star pattern is very unique. AND Jo has a sale on it right now.
And more glass – this time milk glass – and another special price.
And it isn’t just glass that Jo is offering these star specials on – but all kinds of one of a kind pieces in her booth. Come check out her exceptional collection of vintage glass pieces – and other hard to find specialty items.
See you downtown! Cheers!
Just a reminder of all the fun stuff happening in Downtown Clarksville today, Saturday June 5th.
Downtown Market is open! And rumor is that the produce is looking better this week. Mind you, I know Paige served the most amazing tomatoes from last weeks market, so I am not sure how those can be topped!
Another opportunity to see Beauty & the Beast Jr at the Roxy Regional Theatre.
So much fun the last time around – don’t miss out again this month!
Fun times today! I had a busy, but productive day today. What a fun day! Many things new in the shop – come back this week to watch for the new arrivals!
In the meantime, let’s get on with Fab Find Friday!
A customer noticed this mixer today – and I realized that although it is one of my favorite pieces, I have never included it on the blog. This mixer is in Tammy’s booth, with a very reasonable price tag for all I love old kitchen tools – how many cakes do you think this mixer has made?
Another one of my favorites – I really like this old pickle jar. I love the shape of it, and the wooden handle. All kinds of uses for it since it still has a strong seal. Utilitarian uses could include using it to store flour, sugar or cookies! Or you could use it as a display piece. All kinds of possibilities. What would you use it for?
Have a FAB Find Weekend with us!
Don’t forget tomorrow is the monthly event “The Roost Vintage Sale”. Come down and see what the vendors for this event have collected.
See you downtown! Cheers!
