Last night I came home late from refereeing a game to this guy sitting at my kitchen table:This is what The Man and the kids get up to when Im away. Hes very cool. And very big. ...
Food is such a persnickety thing lately. It used to be, in the bad old days, that the question was whether or not there was food. And it still is the main question for far, far ...
I made this for my roller derby teammate Fatal Fantasy. Fatal both plays and refs derby while also being the sweetest little goth girl to ever work at a car dealership. She also happ...
Id rather be homeschooling.It sounds awful but since Smootch started in-school school last September, my favorite days are the ones when she is home due to illness or inhospitable weather. ...
1. Play2. Eat3. SleepThat is all.Have a good one.
Outside right now its -41 c with the windchill. I opted to keep Smootch home for the day instead of dragging us all out into air that is so cold it hurts to breath.But its sunny. As long ...
My three favorites ways to express love:1. Food2. Letting someone read without disturbing them3. Patchwork quiltsWhen I was a child, my favorite play surfaces were patchwork quilts....
Although I avoid buying things with obnoxious plastic packaging, it seems to find its way into my home anyway. Id like to make it all go away forever, but while its here, Im trying to make...
Lately Ive been fascinated by clothing created out of basic shapes, worn by people without the time, resources or desire for shape fitted clothing.It came from reading a book about viking cultur...
**Thanks all for playing along! The giveaway is now closed. Could Liz A and Kelly please email me at vegbee@littleprintdesigns.com and I can send you your patterns. ***I did it!I FIN...
As some of you may have noticed, Im slowly collecting the fragmented pieces of my life and gathering them back up. Perhaps its a desire to start the new year off fresh, without the energy drain of ta...
Ahhhhhh, were home.Thank goodness.It was determined over this past Christmas that Birdie is, without a doubt, a homeboy. This how Birdie refers to himself and his acute need to s...
Its really easy, this time of year, to become overwhelmed and distinctly un-jolly like. I admit it, the holidays bum me out. Ive been trying to be cheerful because the world does not need...
This evening I lent out my sewing machine to a friend who is hand making Christmas presents. While I applaud my friends efforts, especially since a handmade Christmas was not her idea but she seems t...
One of the things I miss about living on Vancouver Island is a great little raw food restaurant in Qualicum Beach that we would visit every once in awhile. Being vegan, we are not used to ...
Why is it that the very rare time that I get my secret wish of having the children leave the house without me to spend a few hours elsewhere, the very first thing I do is run to computer to write abo...
Im sitting here in my tiny house, romancing the idea of declaring myself a minimalist, married to a self-declared an anti-consumerist, and plotting the sudden departure of half my...
The jacket pattern is #14 of the Spring 1/2010 Ottobre. The rule around here is that mama doesnt sew Halloween costumes. Unless, theyre wearable all the time. And its really cu...
Yesterday I barely made it on time to pick Smootch up from school. I wheeled up at the last second before the bell pulling Birdie in his red wagon. Birdie, in his pajamas, was barely visible under a ...
One of my favorite games my children and I play is Find the Faces. Its always a delight to find a personality in the most unexpected of places. We are all hardwired to see eyes,...
This is our last night of our Sort-Of-Holiday. While we havent seen much of The Man, the kids and I have spent plenty of time exploring this beautiful, industrial place. Once again I will have to mis...
Last week we were 644, this week we are 2000+.The Man had to travel for work, so the kids and I decided to tag along. The fact that there was a houseboat, owned by The Man’s boss, on the Shuswap lake...
"Six hundred forty-four!"This is what I say to my children every time when they ask to bring home a toy. Its also what I say to my husband when he wants a new toy (or tool). Its w...
We went to the zoo last Sunday.Well, we tried to go to the zoo.About an hour away from home, on Albertas busiest highway, we got caught up in traffic stalled due to an accident about a kilometer down...
Ive got something to share but Ive been having a hard time with it. Ive rewritten this post fourteen times. Each time Ive bored myself with maudlin musings and semi-hysterical pronou...
Has anyone noticed there seems to be a bit of a chill in the air?Its true. Im starting to feel that tragic shift towards winter. At once Im relieved that the worst heat and storms of the ...
This summer, between the nice weather, our new big backyard, and the kids next door, Smootch, Birdie and I have done virtually zero crafting. Most of the past two months has been spent running ...
There seems to be quite a few talented people making their own patterns at home and wanting to share them with the world. Ive been asked what steps I take to convert a paper pattern into a PDF ...
When I was pregnant with Smootch, I kept hearing about a thing called nesting. Apparently this is a stage when a woman near the end of her pregnancy will suddenly feel compelled to prepare her ...
If I could have any super power, I would choose the ability to manipulate time.Because if I had enough time to do everything I wanted to do...-well, I just dont have the time to describe it all....
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