Hello, my name is Cindy I am a single Mom with three amazing daughters. We have homeschooled since preschool. All of my kids have various degrees of sensory and learning differences so we use crafting to help take what they learn in books and make them tangible. This is going to be a blog to share with you some of the unique ways we have used crafting to enhance not only our education but to enhance who we are as people. I hope you will enjoy this blog and try some of the things that we highlight. Crafting is great because there is no right or wrong way to do something. I went to a painting class once and they kept telling us our goal was to make fun art not fine art. That is what we try and remember. Even if the project doesn't come out just right, you still have made memories and those are priceless. 

Before I go on any farther let me introduce you to the three reasons I do all that I do.
These are my three girls they are teenagers and almost ready to fly the nest but they will fly the nest with a love for getting crafty. 

This week I told my girls about a project for my school ( I am attending college)that would involve blind people. My girls have always had a heart for people in special situations in life. We have taken ASL for many years as a family and recently they have become curious about the blind. When they found out about my project they had the idea to make a card for the blind participants using braille. We had long discussions on how in the world we could create a card in braille without a braille writer.

They came up with the idea of using puffy paint glue to make the raised dots on a page to form braille letters.

We looked up on the internet how to create Braille letters. Got some paint glue and card stock. Braille letters are not as difficult to create as they first seem. They are created on a grid of six squares with the dots appearing in certain squares to make the letter.

Our finished product. After folding the 12x12 card stock into quarters to form the card. I went simple with the message. Even if the words aren't difficult to make you still don't want to write a novel in Braille, by hand. The note says (I hope) "Thank You" in green and "UNF" in the blue and silver (school colors)

Crafting does not have to be an elaborate project. Even monumental mess ups can become treasured family memories that get laughed over for years. I hope this blog inspires you to let crafts help you make connections with your loved ones and with total strangers ( like the recipients of the card above).

Happy Crafting!!!!