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Agricultural Fair Family Showcase Pictures!

We had such a good time singing together for the OAAS (Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies) Family Showcase that we wanted to share a few pictures!  Next show we will try and do much better about taking backstage pictures and pictures of the people we meet because I am sure you would find it as fun as we do!  Special thanks to Louisa for taking these pre-show pictures!  Without her positive "Let's do it" attitude we wouldn't've gotten any! * Soundcheck and setup with …

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Valentine's For The Birds

This Valentine's Day is for the Birds.   Literally!  We made a delicious and beautiful treat for the birds and hung it up in the woods.  Then we we just kept on climbing trees.  What a fun afternoon!  We'll go back Valentine's Day and see if the birds liked what we brought for them.  I can hardly wait to find out! Our afternoon in Pictures : This is what we made!  Looks beautiful on the snow! mix: real yummy fat, bird seed, flax seed, raisins Our heart shaped tin. Pack …

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Pippi Longstocking Goes To The Circus -- Book of the Month!

I have been so excited to share this book with you this month!!!   We have read it over and over and over. And enjoyed every word, every idea and every discussion this book has brought us.  The pictures are lively and I really like how colourful they are -- Pippi has a lot of expressions. Yes, " Pippi Goes To The Circus " by Astrid Lindgren is a real winner here at our house.  Although this short story is only part of the whole real work of Pippi Longstocking this short book is …

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A New Show! vogelJoy LIVE

Hello Blog Readers! We have something brand new for you! Yes, you! What? Well it's... Something fun you can do! Something fun you can have! Something fun you can share! And it's true that no matter wherever you are you too can be part of vogelJoy LIVE !  Read all about it here on our vogelJoy High-flyers page!  vogelJoy High-flyers are our biggest fans because they do all kinds of creative things and tell us about it and send things in!  email us for our address if you want to send in …

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Canopy Play Tent for Sale

  Children's Play Canopy Tent   Purchase this tent @ $198 ( as listed on etsy ) or email me to Make An Offer! Share this with all your friends and I'm sure someone would love to make an offer for this beautiful tent! I can't wait to get on with making the next one! =) If you live close by you can save the shipping and I will deliver it right to you of course! Email me if you would like to know the lowest offer....   as many times as you like------------------> ~ in the nursery or …

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Snowglobes!

Yes, you can make your own snowglobe!   It's infinitely more exciting than just buying one at the store.  And if you are very creative you can create such fancy scenes!  Also you could add fancy sparkles like tiny snowflake sparkles and different colours and designs.  We made a very simple one for our first try but it was so easy and fun we can't wait to try another! We used a glue gun for this project because they are easy and fun but perhaps if you are assisting your kids with this …

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D is for December & Decided -- on The Nutcracker that is...

We did it!  We read through many Nutcracker story books and have come to a unanimous desicion on our top 3 choices!  I'm not sure why 2 out of 3 kids have something in their eye but they are listening intently anyway =) Here they are! 3... 2... 1... 3. Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann Retold by Susanne Koppe This book strives to remain true to the original telling of Hoffmann's Nutcracker --  not as we might know it from the ballet.  I like that Suzanne encourages us to read the original …

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N is for November & Nutcracker : Our Book Of The Month

This is the perfect kind of month to get into the Holiday Spirit by reading The Nutcracker.  We are really looking forward to getting into this classic story this month.  Did you know that there are a variety of different storybooks all about The Nutcracker?  This has made it really difficult to decide on which exact book to choose!  And so we've ordered a lot of them!  After we have read through our choices we will pick which one is our favourite and tell you all about it!  …

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Playing In The Woods

Have you ever spent nearly the whole day outside in the woods?  We did -- more than once on these warm Fall Days!  It is SO fun!  Let's Go! There's nothing like a wooded ravine. Louisa, Oliver & Sophie went out all day and decided to make forts.  They even got the Christmas tree saw to cut sticks and branches!  They had their own rope and twine and old sheets and they were set!  Literally the fun lasted hours and hours. Here is the structure they made for their fort: And …

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A Scat Singing Book of the Month

Budum didi Budum didi Budum dudeoom dudeoom di didi Those are the lyrics to my favourite song.  Ella Fitzgerald's Airmail Special!   That Everyone is the song that has hooked me completely as a scat loving jazz fan.  I am determined to learn this song.  It just sounds like a lot of fun to sing.  Bubbles, lots of energy and excitment whirl around whenever I play this song.  I just can't help myself. Jazz is one of those wondrous musical genres that makes a regular song or …

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Hot Cup Of Cocoa Mix for Everyone in the Choir

You heard right!  We have the recipe you need for your very own Hot Cup Of Cocoa -- You take the music and add your own milk :)  picture: Pinterest This song is one of our very favourites.  Many school choirs and children's choirs enjoy singing this song.  Most often you even get to wear a scarf and make up your own actions!  This classic winter song is so fun to sing and so fun to listen to -- it brings smiles to everyones face. So let's see... what do we need for a good Hot Cup …

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The Single Story: Missing In The Corn Maze

You know when your kids finally go to bed and you have time to do a few things?  Or actually when you're waiting for them to go to sleep and you're sitting in the hall -- just -- waiting?  In that time you could write lyrics for a song!  Why not right?  In fact that's what Janine from The Belmont Corn Maze did!  And that is the beginning of our song: Late nights, planning , playing , planting and rototilling is all part of the fun when your family is into making adventurous ideas …

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Marbles!

Do you ever wonder what you can do when it's raining too?  Well, after you've ran all around outside and gotten all wet with all that puddle jumping there is something you can do inside! How do you play you say?  Well we used to have no idea either but a little google search and a trip to the dollar store to get marbles and string and we were ready to go! my marbles action shot -- pretty quick with the camera huh? ;) Here are a few instructions so you can play!  The Game Ringer You need: …

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A Place To Play, A Place To Sing

Every child craves for a pretty place to play.  Somewhere to read, hide out, or listen to good music ;)  Well, now you can make just the right place! We know bands usually just sell T-Shirts but we've got a real creative and crafty bunch in our audience and so we know this will be right up your alley!  I have always loved this type of play canopy and I finally took the plunge and made what I had been dreaming of!  Now I have a template and complete instructions all made so that you …

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Useful Craftiness: Sandals!

This summer we made our own sandals and we love them!  They are great!  It's just like wearing bare feet!  You can run in them and they don't flop around -- 5 stars. What You Need Materials: 4mm Cherry Vibram that I found on ebay, 2 6' laces made of 5/32" nylon/polypropelyne (or try other laces that you like... but these laces are great because they are water resistant and colour fast) -- I got them here: invisible shoes .  Tools: leather hole punch, scissors, pencil, paper, …

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Have You Heard of Cow Tipping?

The summer is so good.  We have loved every minute outside in the sunshine!  Just being out on the grass - picnics, long walks, rolling down hills -- all of that! But even though summer is winding down picnics can still be had and outside adventures are still great.  Like cow tipping for instance -- but this is better.  Round bale rolling! And if you're good at it maybe the farmer will hire you to round up all his round bales and you can get a workout!  This month we've got a …

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Fun At The Fair

We have such a great time singing at the Fair!!  The last 2 weeks we've been travelling a lot to sing at some fairs in Ontario.  August 21st we travelled over to Vankeek Hill which is just off the Trans-Canada Highway past Ottawa right near Quebec.  We just loved meeting everyone there!  It was really rainy but some that braved the rain and came over to the Kids Tent had a great time with a clown, jugglers and music, of course!  We had a super time sharing the afternoon with the …

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Pick Your Own Blueberries

Picking Blueberries is just one of the funnest things you can do with your family!  We've actually gone twice this year and if we can do it I really want to go just one more time... When our youngest was really small and couldn't walk around the patch herself I would put her in the stroller and roll her into the side of a bush.  She loved it!  She could look at all the pretty berries, had shade and lots of snacks for the whole time we were there!  It really works out perfectly if you …

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New Song! And The Maze Looks Great!

Come and make memories in Belmont Corn Maze 's Country Playground! It's all about fun, music and play! Loads of fresh air and fun -- what could be better? Hey, Let's go up in a helicopter to check it out! It's so hard to believe the corn is so high, that the vogelJoy maze is finished and the summer is nearly done!  To celebrate we've got a new song!!!  Have a listen to Belmont Corn Maze's New Song!  We'll be singing it while we're there and we'd love your help in singing along! …

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Weddings, Friends & vogelJoy

We often play at weddings.  Flute music, violin, duets, solos, classical, hymns... but this time we got to play jazz too!  We played music from the 30s and from our vogelJoy CD!  And that means trumpet and drums too. You might think vogelJoy music couldn't possibly work for a wedding but you will be pleasantly surprised!  We mixed up the outdoor afternoon cocktail hour with a variety of music and sounds for everyone.  With trumpet, violin, flute, voice and great tracks we had …

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Yes, "Pippi Goes To The Circus" by Astrid Lindgren is a real winner here at our house. 

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A Few Things (well 7) About Us:
  • Terry is in the Plumbing Factory Brass Band!
  • Louisa is starting her own blog very soon and will be a guest blogger for vogeljoy.com!
  • Kimberly wants to do the splits by Christmas... both ways! I'm not sure if you want me to blog about that though ;)
  • Sophie seems to get a lot of knots in her hair all of the time!
  • We want to watch the musical Salad Days and hear the song about the missing piano.
  • Kimberly & Terry helped with this ongoing Metastasio Research project.
  • We have some gymnastics equipment in our house =) although not used as much as it should be......

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