St. Martin Lanterns

Annie has a wonderful idea to celebrate St. Martin de Tours next Wednesday. I hope to make these with my kiddos. I love it when I find out about an idea with enough time to implement (at least 3-5 days). I'm not so good with reading about an idea the night before and implementing.

My November Resolution (since its not the new year ... liturgical or regular) is to do one saint craft a week. That will be a big task for me!

For November we'll celebrate the following saints:

November 11th - St. Martin de Tours
November 17th - St. Elizabeth of Hungary
November 24th - St. Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions
December 3rd - St. Francis Xavier or St. Rose of Lima (only because this is Sophia Roses' bday and it would be nice to celebrate her saint name)

Wish me luck. And please email me any ideas for these saints. Other than reading books and handing out coloring sheets, I'm not very good with coming up with craft ideas BUT can steal ideas beautifully!! ;-)

isansoko at yahoo dot com

Painting Patriotic Tees

Big thank you to Charlotte for the timely advance notice. We finally got around to making our own 4th of July tees. Once they're dry I'll have the kids show them off. This has been a tradition I've been after for a while now. More pics to come, including some of our traditional flag cake that we've been doing for years now!!