Attn: Some pages will no longer work

This page may get dropped entirely as I have not kept it up with Google/Blogger. They keep bugging me that they're about to shut it down unless I log in to the admin page, but I have no access to that particular page. If I disappear, it was nice knowing you!

Books: Tom Sawyer

Hey, lookie here! I've returned for a short engagement. I hope to expand this into a full set of pages for the book Tom Sawyer. The illustration used here is the original inside cover art from this famous book:

Tom Sawyer pages

Surprise! I felt like dabbling my toes back in the notebooking waters this week. Here's a different blank biography page that can be used for any person you wish:

Blank Biography Page (2)

Enjoy!

Biography: Julius Caesar

Will wonders never cease - I actually made some more pages! ;-) Here are some biography pages for Julius Caesar:

Biography - Julius Caesar

Bloggy Update - I'm okay!

A very sweet reader recently wrote in and asked if I was okay, concerned that I haven't added anything at all since March. Thank you so much, Von!

Unfortunately, I have pretty much lost interest in continuing with notebooking pages. We don't actually use them much in our own homeschool (I was doing them because designing them is fun!) so I don't have a personal incentive in continuing. This past year has been a difficult one for our family - shortly after I thought I'd be able to get back into the swing of things this past Spring (after dealing with my MIL's illness and death in the fall), there was another death in the family, a family crisis that was very emotionally draining, and then my own health started giving me a few problems. (Nothing serious, just annoying, really.) Overall I have just not had the energy or motivation to make more notebooking pages.

The blog still gets a fair number of visitors, and I feel there is enough here to interest people, so I will keep the blog open for the foreseeable future. And who knows, maybe someday I will return to page design for the homeschool community!

In the meantime, I have started a new blog, just a personal one that's bits and pieces of things I think are interesting or cool, and I'd love to have you visit:

Things Melanie Likes

Thanks again for your concern, and I hope to see you all around the web!

Looking for St. Patrick's Day pages?

Are you looking for St. Patty's Day notebooking pages? I have 4 available, take your pick! (All of these are in .doc format, I haven't transferred them over to PDF yet, sorry.)

"My Irish Fairy Tale"

Clover Background

Shamrock Border

Irish Border

Notebooking Page: The story of Betsy Ross

I'm beginning a series of pages for a unit on the history of the American Flag that will be ready for sale in a few weeks, I hope. I started out with that easy, common bit of history, Betsy Ross. Did you know that she may not have actually sewn the first American flag with the circle of stars? She certainly did do some flag work for the new government, but story of her sewing the first real flag didn't begin circulating until about a hundred years later!

Whatever you want your child to tell about Betsy Ross, here is a page they can use for it:

Notebooking Page: The Story of Betsy Ross

Testing: Please try this secondary link and let me know if it works. Thanks!