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Stitch Wars

July 18, 2009

I saw this on Craftzine and had to share. If you are lucky enough to be in Lauderhill, Florida there is a art exhibit coming up featuring Star Wars stitchery.  My favorite? The plush tauntaun (with a freezing Luke inside!).

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Star Wars Lego Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter – The Christmas Present Roundup Part 1

December 27, 2008

Woah.  So we’re still trying to recover from Christmas morning and the living room remains strewn with new toys in various states of play.   The dining room table has become Lego and Bakugan central, much to the chagrin of Mrs TR who still has one more plush Rocket Boy Rocket to make for a friends [...]

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This Year’s Champion 6th Birthday Present Is…

November 30, 2008

The Lego Star Wars video game. That’s right, not just a Star Wars video game, but a Lego Star Wars video game. I believe it is technically called Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy. The characters are all made of Legos and they don’t die when they get shot, they just fall into their [...]

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Birthday Present Roundup

November 29, 2008

Speedy and Rainbow turned six on Thanksgiving. They are officially big kids now they are six.  They were quite pleased with their birthday presents.
We started out the morning with some adorable ghostie lights from Ikea.  They had been asking for night lights they could take into bed with them, and I saw these ages [...]

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Star Wars Seen Through Six Year Old Eyes

November 16, 2008

For you Star Wars fans who read my earlier suggestions on How Young Is Too Young For Start Wars that 8 was a good age to watch Star Wars for the first time, I have gone against my own advice!
We finally broke down and let the Boys watch Star Wars at age 6.  And when [...]

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How Young Is Too Young for Clone Wars?

August 29, 2008

Wordpress gives you the ability to see what search terms people used to find your blog posts, and I’ve been seeing a whole lot of these types of searches on this blog lately:
“is clone wars scary for six year olds”
“too young clone wars”
“how old for clone wars”
“clone wars under seven”
And so on.  It’s people finding [...]

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How Young is Too Young for Star Wars

August 16, 2008

Both of our two boys (5.75 year old twins) have been begging me to let them watch Star Wars lately, Speedy in particular.  We don’t watch a great deal of TV in our house, trying to keep it under 5 hours a week of select programming, mainly from PBS (We’re big fans of Fetch!), and [...]

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