This week’s featured blogger is Tifaine from Through My Lens. Tifaine is a home schooling, crafty, mom blogger of three super cute kiddos and a (seriously) handsome husband. (Check out her About Me page. He really is cute.) Let’s get to know a little bit more about her.
1. You self taught yourself how to sew! I sew, and I’m not sure how I really learned how… home ec, watching my grandmothers, etc. What inspired you to learn to sew?
~ After surfing the web a few different times I continued seeing pillowcase dresses. I thought they looked super easy and they were cute as a button. So I went to the thrift store bought a pillowcase and took it home. Mind you I didn’t own a sewing machine at the time. When I went home I broke out my handy glue gun and my scissors and got down to business. Using a video tutorial I cut and glued my first ever pillowcase dress. Success! I knew if I could do that then I could sew it. With that I searched craigslist, and bought my first sewing machine in 2010.
2. I see you’ve only been blogging since May. What made you decide to enter the blogosphere?
~Blogging has been something that I have wanted to do for quite a while, but I just didn’t understand it all. I was honestly intimidated and overwhelmed by it all. I stared blogging to share stories about my life experiences. Blogging for some is a way of life. Right now, it’s not for me, but as time rolls on I would love for my blogging hobby to turn into a blogging business.
3. Why did you decide to home school? In one paragraph.
~After many discussions we honestly knew homeschool was the best fit for all of our children. My husband and I both had some horror stories from our education experiences, and we didn’t want put our children at risk of having those same experiences. Our oldest and our youngest children both have been diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder. We both knew that the schools would look at them as a thorn in their sides, and who wants that for your children.
4. Explain the significance of the Polaroid.
~ My 1981 Polaroid camera was purchase by my parents just days before I was born. It was the first camera that I ever touched. That camera was the only camera our poor little family owned for lots of years. I was always taking pictures with it, and can remember vividly holding it up to my right eye and pressing that red button. Because of those moments I grew to fall in love with taking pictures of the world that surrounds me, and us.
5. What is the favorite post you have written.
~Oh geez! Well I would have to say my big favorite is Not So SUPER. It was the first blog that I just really spit out what I was feeling and didn’t hold back. It was really the breaking point for me on my blog, and it changed the way I write now.
That is a great post. I need to bookmark it so I can read it over and over and over. Now it is time for YOU to Share Your Awesome for a chance to be featured next week. BUT your post really doesn’t have to be awesome (in your opinion). It can be any post that you wrote this week. JUST LINK UP! Here are the rules for linking up:
- Link up a favorite post you wrote this week.
- On the post you feature link back to my blog. Something like, “I’m sharing my awesome with Momma Made It Look Easy and you can too.” It can be in the tiniest print at the very bottom of your post. Or you can grab my “Share Your Awesome” button from the sidebar and use that.
- Link directly to your blog post and not your home page or a landing page. If you don’t know how to find the permalink just let me know and I’ll help you.
Next week I will randomly pick one participant (that hasn’t previously been featured) to feature on my blog. Please follow all of the rules. I will delete you if you don’t. And while it isn’t a requirement, it would be really great if you would check out some of the other blogs that link up, and also, comments are always great. The posts so far have been awesome and I’m sure they will be this week too.
Please share that you are linking up on Facebook and Twitter so that we will have plenty of people join in. I will try to share all of your posts.
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Great interview
Where can I Share My Awesome? Sounds like fun!
Sorry about that. I forgot to add the linky last night. It is up now.
I am in serious awe of people who homeschool. First of all I am not that organized and second of all I have a hard enough time getting my children to do their homework!
Thanks fellow MOM! Believe me some days are really not so Organized! It has taken time to get use to,but at the end of the day it works for us right now.
I know. Me too. I would never be organized enough to get anything done and my kids would end up being schooled by the television.
When I was teaching in public school, I had a “sensory” student. I used to have to use a sift plastic brush on his arms, legs and back and then sort of pump his joints 10 times each, three times a day. I also needed to tape his papers to his desk b/c it hurt him to rest his hand on the paper. What kinds of things help your girls?
Jennifer
We do a lot of different muscle, and upper body strengthening exercises. We have a stock of “fidgets” for my son, they are lifesavers when he has to sit for long periods of time, or when we are at a restaurant.
You and another one of my blogger pals need to get together, Amanda at Mandalyn and the Stinky Cheese. She just found out that her son has sensory processing disorder and she is having to do the brushing and joint compression thingys. I bet she could really use some of your advice or commiseration.
I will stop by her blog and say hello. Thanks for letting me know. Its nice to be able to feed off of each other, and have mom support.
This makes me feel bad for kids that have to go through this.
That should be “use” not “sift”. Ha!
Ack!!! SOFT, not sift. :head desk:
Tifaine’s husband is cute…Tifaine is cute… ergo. Pretty good looking kids. I really liked the Not SO Super Post. Ya know I just can’t hear the message enough. My little young neighbor asked me about mom time…I said, ” I don’t get mom time.” She said, “I know.”
Linking up. Not loving the post, but linked w/ Mama Kat and asked her to take it off the linky and didn’t hear anything back and comments have been gentle. Who said I had to be comfortable all the time?
Maggie
Mom time is quite rare for me,but each time it’s so sweet!
Yeah I guess you ladies are right, he is pretty darn cute.
You never love your posts, but they are always fantastic.
Great to meet you Tifaine! And your blog!
I could use some sewing tips myself. It’s party that the machine and I just DON’T seem to get along… humph.
Great feature Jen!
Elaine some days me and my machine don’t get along either, but that’s sewing for ya! So glad to meet you!
I’m still shocked that she was brave enough to teach herself. I had a grandmother, mother and mother-in-law to fall back on when I had questions when started sewing.
This a great! I’ve enjoyed the blogs featured in the few weeks since I found your blog.
Thanks! I love featuring new blogs.
I love old polaroids. I remember the one that my parents used for their roofing business and how I got into so much trouble because I took about twenty photos of my cat’s feet.
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