Mary Nix on May 2nd, 2009

This website at Chiff.com offers several links to knitting instructions and includes a how to video.
How to knit

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Mary Nix on April 30th, 2009

Talent Teacher offers free art lessons.  They provide online step by step lessons for watercoler, drawing, and more.   They also offer an online video that illustrates some great sculpting techniques. I have just finished watching their free online tutorial for sculpting a bust that you can access here.
The site is Talent Teacher.

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Mary Nix on April 24th, 2009

What Bird – The Ultimate Bird Guide is an excellent resource that I have used often. This free resource offers extensive tools to identify birds, including bird identification 101, blogs, articles and it even offers the tools to create your own field guide from their extensive database of North American birds.
What Bird – [...]

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Mary Nix on April 23rd, 2009

I love Pandas of any kind, but this online Smithsonian Exhibition offers all you may have wanted to know about Giant Pandas and more. Don’t miss the Panda Cam!
Giant Pandas

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Mary Nix on April 21st, 2009

In my opinion, every day should be Earth Day, but I’m glad that we do celebrate it once a year and bring awareness to others.

PBS KIDS® will have Earth friendly episodes of Clifford,  Arthur  and others all ready for Earth Day on April 22nd. They will be celebrating Earth Day and their  new Web-based Earth [...]

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Mary Nix on April 11th, 2009

This Friendship Garden Game from Noggin is definitely for littles, but I enjoyed it. I wish my garden grew so easily!
Noggin’s Friendship Garden

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