These pieces of furniture were once an old, plain, Ikea desk and something in the 1/2 price bin at a tag sale. Enter some beautiful pieces of paper and look! New up-cycled and beautiful additions to our home! I love paper and have quite a stash. I recently learned of a store...
After many long months, and these extremely long past few cold and rainy weeks, it seems like it if finally time for some summertime hose spray downs! We do have a sprinkler. But our kids seem to love just playing with the hose in the backyard. We are lucky to have such a nice...
We eat dinner as a family almost every night. This has just been a natural occurrence. We never made a conscious decision to make it a rule, just how things go around here. We started saying a standard blessing learned at Waldorf parent child classes 10 years ago. And we still say the same...
This lovely little colored pencil holder used to be a plain old glass jar hanging around in my “ordinary objects I will someday craft with” cabinet. And just look at it now! A fancy up-cycled colored pencil holder! All that was needed to make this little lovely was some Mod Podge and tissue paper...
Today was a great day for a trip to Roaring Brook Nature Center. First we visited with the outside animals. Frosty the albino squirrel has been a favorite of our children, especially our daughter, for many years now. In the fall we collect special acorns to bring to him. He is a very sweet,...
I was out walking in the early morning drizzle today. It has been raining for days and all of the trees are just bedraggled in wetness. I got to the top of the hill in front of our house and had to walk under tree branches that were hanging down very low with all...
I have recently become enamored with making barrettes. They are such great little canvases for all kinds of little scraps! I made this one this morning for R to wear to her coop. It’s made from wool felt scraps, finger knitting (of which we have mountains of) and a “coil flower” made yesterday of,...
It has been raining and raining and RAINING here. But I can’t let that hold us back! We lived in Oregon for four years! So we put on rain coats and rain boots and walked to the library and grocery store. It was a cold and wet and lovely walk! At the library we...
Tomorrow is handwork class for R. She needs size 8 needles. I couldn’t send her with plain old knitting needles! So out came paint, shimmer Mod Podge and a little Demential Magic. Viola, pretty heart knitting needles! Sent from my iPhone
