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There are many aspects about summertime that I love, but one of my favorites is all the fresh vegetables. Vegetable gardens are producing great bounties at this time of the year and Jessica has shared her burgeoning garden and the book she used to help her in this week’s Project Library.
Halloween is getting close and if you plan on constructing your child’s costume yourself, now’s the time to start brainstorming and buying your supplies. Or, if you’re like me, making costumes for your kids could be something that is year round, not just a Halloween affair.
This week’s library show and tell was submitted by Kathy J. She constructed a holder for her yarn out of an old tin and a grommet kit.
Rats!! That’s right, Rats!! Chocolate covered Rats, that is, made from delicious dried apricots with peanut ears and Starburst candy tails. It’s what’s for dinner, if you use What’s Cooking?, A Cookbook for Kids based on the Disney Pixar movie Ratatouille.
This week library customer, Anne P., shares her handmade knitted and crocheted washcloths with us. The pattern was taken from the book Knitting Loves Crochet: 22 Stylish Designs to Hook Up Your Knitting with a Touch of Crochet by Candi Jensen . Anne has the following to say about her project...
Welcome to Project Library!
As everyone knows the library is the place to go when you are in need of information for homework, research papers, and experiments as well as the place to find information on how to build, fix, and maintain numerous things in your household or life. We know that you come to us for any number of endeavors and we have the circulation numbers to prove it! We often share our creations with each other here at the library, but we want to know what you’ve been working on. Share your projects with us and the library community by filling out the form below and we’ll post them here in the Project Library column. Don't forget to include some pictures!