"I don't actually see anything, but whatever."

This is what the 10-year old said when I told her I wanted to take a photo. We got the slides focused after some messing around. We just got these slides—we had some prepared ones, but not many, and have made our own (with mixed success) but they wanted more, so I got this box of prepared slides and am pretty happy with it and so are they.

Links and things:

• We are going to try this retro painted flower tutorial over at The Postman's Knock.

• We are moving onto a mystery theme and I found these writing tips for writing your own mystery story. There are a lot of creative writing ideas on this site.

• I love these free Paint by Number Valentines by the amazing Heidi Kenney

• I read The Fault in Our Stars and it was so good! And sad. I finished it yesterday. I am a little sad today. But good-sad, not the kind-of-creepy-and-feeling-mildly-manipulated-by-the-author, sad. And, I am a sucker for books within books, so that was an bonus for me.