Blue skies and sunshine, Little A on the mend after 2 weeks of fever and cough, weekend play and it’s feeling a lot like Summer break. This weekend there was much puttering about the home, gara...
I think i had the most perfect birthday ever - we all of us woke together and there was a birthday table set for me! aww. It was so pleasantly unexpected. x. Coffee and breakfast with the usual shena...
papa is away in Guatemala, big brother is alternating chills and fever and when you’re two, small is special and simple is abundant so that’s how we did it. 2 years ago this 5:55 morning ...
keeping on with the 30 day ocean side challenge - day 5 above and 6 below; there were several highlights this short trip away all of which beckon me back sooner than later. (tourists indeed); oh man ...
Whatever the weather i intend to find myself ocean side each day the month of May. As usual these 30 day challenges are meant to invoke an awareness rather than to prove me a hard nut challenger. Bei...
May for me is the start of birthday season so i have at the ready a rainbow of crowns and bunting flags for the Spring babies; Also i’m very excited that i actually finished my stack of Spring ...
heading out on neighborhood rounds - Little A is slightly bummed that i can’t always pull the 2 of them together in the wagon but he’s also discovering that being bigger and pulling the w...
kcwc Spring 2012 - day 4 i think you’ll agree that there’s nothing wrong with small and easy middle of the night projects. i recently picked up some small scrap pieces of flannel ticking ...
Grey, checks, herringbone and elephants. awww. These are based on the Quick Change Trouser pattern but non reversible and more lightweight for those especially warm Spring days. i’ll have an ex...
i love Elsie’s clothes week challenges to set me in the mode of completing half finished projects. I finally resized Little M’s copter cords to match his big brother’s pair and he i...
After my last post about sibling rivalry i have to say that we had a fantastic Saturday. The boys were having so much fun playing together in the morning hours that i was able to tackle some serious ...
some rivalry has begun. our first year altogether was a breeze but things are becoming more challenging and heartbreaking as the older boy becomes frustrated with the younger one’s insistence t...
it’s inevitable and i won’t get all picky pants here but i hope to alleviate any confusion for those who would like to try making the felt flower bowls following my tutorial in the recent...
it hasn’t been this clean in a very long time; first step to getting there is to clear out and so a sale; Also is anyone interested in making something with these? i use a lot of really gorgeou...
On the home front we have extended our Spring break in attempt to avoid exposure to whooping cough (and the vaccination offered at the school). There has been an increase of confirmed cases within th...
i had just been perusing Sarah’s flickrstream, admiring her tulips and remembering a high school friend when shortly after i received news that my Uncle Aksel had passed away. we had known for ...
i thought we had enough eggs left over from previous years but with some cracking success, Little M has gotten his hands on more than a few and Little A couldn’t believe that we weren’t g...
it was a good idea despite not catching anything. the forest trails and lake view were enough and another guy down the dock caught something which may have helped put “why we’re standing ...
Several days into the 30 day challenge of learning to crochet i finally found something inspiring to get me going. Well actually i’ve been inspired by Margie’s covered stones for a long l...
it’s what we do while we wait for our food or wait in line when we haven’t got a pen or paper. it’s right up there with eye spy for “waiting games. I had a Sunday date with my...
Last month’s 30 day challenge went a little wayward due to an ongoing icky cough. i think also that the success and fun of a monthly challenge is that it be something specific that one can to d...
Good things include coffee and croissant before one begins a month of healthier eating habits along with chamomile lavender tea in a silk sachet; back alley boys; Sunday late lunch; Tuesday breakfast...
to my mama who is 74 today. it just so happens she is passing through from minding one daughter’s children, to resting at another daughter’s, and now visiting with us before carrying on b...
Thank you for the kind comments from my last post. I’m between recovery and a few steps back with symptoms swaying pendulum like. That’s it for my complaining now as i have more interesti...
oooh it’s been a long few weeks. For those of you familiar with the ‘love your liver‘ post i must admit that i’ve taken a slight detour from Liver to Lungs. I have been coughi...
little leprechauns are at play in our home today; i hope they have good fun while i am away seeking and selling rainbows at the VWS Spring Market (today!!); Virpi Iverson; One of a Handful; Fa...
baskets, beanbags, play silks, bunting flags and various sweet Spring reversible trousers;
The studio is a beautiful mess and stock is accumulating for our Spring Market Event. (Also there will be a shop update sometime between the 3rd and 4th week of March). Once again i will be set up wi...
In Grade 1 Waldorf the children are using bean bags in their math blocks, tossing them in patterns and counting out loud together. I have heard them from outside the classroom door and i hear from Li...
The 30 day challenge gals and I agree that March and early Spring time is an instinctively natural time to cleanse, but, with 1 of us nursing, another newly pregnant and none of us feeling enough in ...
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