Posted in Crafting, Learning, Playing/ Free Exploration on Apr 9th, 2010
Look who decided to help himself to the craft supply box while I was attempting to make dinner (and the girls were having a tickle war).
It’s hard to believe that Tum Tum will be TWO next month…he’s outgrowing so much of his sweet baby-ness. I loved watching him drawing intently and singing to himself all [...]
Posted in Books and Reading, Crafting, Giving, Moderation and Economy on Dec 9th, 2009
The weather here has been bitterly, bitterly cold (we are eagerly anticipating our annual Christmas trip to Florida next weekend!!). The past few days, we’ve built a big fort out of chairs and blankets in the living room. We’ve been spending our mornings snuggled under it, reading Christmas stories (like this collection of short stories, [...]
Posted in Crafting, Giving, Moderation and Economy, O Come, O Come Emmanuel on Dec 5th, 2009
The girls are reaching an age where they really enjoy being able to participate in making Christmas gifts. So, for their cousins (ages 5 1/2 and 3 1/2), we put together little paper-crafting kits, so Aasha and Ruby can enjoy an afternoon of Christmas crafting.
This is a very frugal gift, costing us less than $1 [...]
Posted in Crafting, Giving, Mamas Who Inspire, Sewing on Oct 24th, 2009
We’re back in our old stomping ground – on the Central Oregon Coast – this weekend. Some dear friends are having a cider pressing party, and we wouldn’t miss it for the world. The weekend trip is also a gift to my dear husband, who celebrates his birthday today! So, we’re staying in a yurt [...]
Look who’s knitting on two needles!
We are all recovering from a pretty awful family-wide bug, so the past two days we’ve taken things very easy. Sunday afternoon, Little Hen said she wanted to get some knitting done and set to work on her first real “project” - a little wool cape for her beloved Waldorf [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, Crafting, Learning, Locally grown, Outings, Playing/ Free Exploration, Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2009
The past month has left me feeling stretched pretty thin because of obligations and responsibilities to my family and others. Tackling domestic duties and “home schooling” the girls while my non-stop motion toddler “explores” the house into a distaster zone has also been a challenge. Crafting has been particularly tricky – Tum Tum either attempt [...]
Posted in Birding, Crafting, Learning, Outings on Sep 25th, 2009
Kortney at One Deep Drawer told me about the congregation of Vaux’s swifts in NW Portland, and this week we made it over to the Chapman School to see them. For a bird nerd like me, it was a huge thrill.
We set up early, with hundreds of other families, enjoying our picnic dinner (homemade hummus, [...]
Posted in Crafting, Learning, Moderation and Economy on Sep 21st, 2009
Like most children their age, the girls are prolific artists (esp. Little Hen, who loves her water colors). Our living room was looking pretty bare, and despite amassing a substantial collection of their artwork, it’s just not in the budget to get anything professionally framed right now. Why should that prevent us from displaying their [...]
Posted in Crafting, Giving, Locally grown, Moderation and Economy, Sewing on Sep 2nd, 2009
Now, my sewing skills are pretty basic, (nothing like the beautiful sewing at Pleasantview Schoolhouse), but this week I tried my hand at making some farmer’s market totes. (A few more tote tutorials can also be found here, but I like how the pattern I used has the lining fabric peeking up above the edge [...]
Posted in Crafting, Locally grown, Moderation and Economy, Sewing on Aug 31st, 2009
The other night I stayed up ridiculously late finishing a little scrap quilt, and I really paid for it the next day! Of course, the children decided to wake up almost two hours earlier than normal the next morning! I needed two cups of coffee just to be able to make toast and eggs for [...]