Introducing Musical Instruments to Children

Giving your children access to different musical instruments is a great way to introduce music to them. It is also a way to spark interest in music as a whole. This allows your children to discover an interest in playing different musical instruments. It is important that you, as a parent, shouldn’t be too eager every time your child shows interest in a particular instrument. You may end up buying different expensive musical instruments that your children may not end up using. In introducing music to your children, it is best if you provide them first with simple and easy to maintain musical instruments. This includes traditional musical instruments such as tin whistle from musicians friend. Traditional musical instruments do not require expensive replacement parts or electricity. This will also give your children an important lesson about history and culture.

Stamp Collection : Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth realms, and their territories and dependencies, and head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations. She is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and, in some of her realms, carries the title of Defender of the Faith as part of her full title. (source : Wikipedia)

 

Desktop Postcard Holder

I am organizing my small office space here at work and aside from making sure that I have all the boxes and folders that I need to organize my files, hubby wanted to have a postcard stand that I can place on my desk. All of the postcards that we’ll receive for the month will go on the stand first before they will be sorted out on our album. This will allow us easy access every time we need to refer to them or we need to make a post about them.

We wanted to make a simple postcard stamp, something that will not take too much space on our desk. Hubby was able to come up with this using barbecue sticks:

postcard stand

 

postacrd stand

We still have a lot of organizing to do, I still have to make a list of all the things that we need to organize. I may have to use a mobile app that makes organizing notes and making to-do list simpler and more convenient. I actually find such apps very useful, just like one who designed any.do app that I saw awhile ago, especially for individuals who have a lot of things to accomplish within a particular time frame. I’m still reading some reviews and feedback that can help me choose which app is suitable for me. For now, I am happy with the mini postcard stand that we have for our desk.