Pauline Molinari

I'm the crafty maven, and I'm on a mission to spread craftiness. With a fine arts degree, over 15 years experience in children's publishing, and a savvy, stylish, sassy tween daughter, I come armed with perspective and passion to inspire tween girls and their mothers to be crafty together.

INTRODUCING the Club

by Pauline Molinari • April 26, 2011

Mom’s on a Mission…the GirlPower behind Club ChicaCircle!

by Pauline Molinari • April 4, 2011

If you have a tween daughter like mine, she is fanatic about collecting pencils at school. I stumbled across these zany pencil toppers that I know tweens would flip over. Kachooz are so full of frizzy fun! It might be the way you can spin the pencil and splay the hair around, or simply that…

by Pauline Molinari • March 28, 2011

Welcome to Miranda’s Kitchen—where one of our resident tweens shares how to make Vanilla Panna Cotta based on one of her favorite desserts inspired by the “Around the World Cookbook” by Abigail Johnson Dodge. Here is the official recipe: You will need: Small saucepan Wooden spoon Blender Custard cups or small ramekins Plastic wrap Ingredients:…

by Pauline Molinari • March 28, 2011

Check out GardenGirlTV where “Garden Girl” Patti Moreni shows you how to make seed balls to plant or giveaway with her daughter Ale, the “Garden Kid”.

by Pauline Molinari • February 5, 2011

Child prodigy and author Adora Svitak shares her views on what adults can learn from kids.

by Pauline Molinari • October 21, 2010

Be inspired! Get the Tee!

by Pauline Molinari • October 14, 2010

We love when one small thing, or in this case, one 40-lb cabbage can inspire a movement. Katie Stagliano was just 9 and in third grade when her gardening skills grew a 40-lb cabbage that fed 275 people and inspired her to launch an ongoing campaign to feed the hungry. Moved by the experience of…