Exploring…
chicken mischief. apple blossoms. old homesteads. baby hikes.
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Leaving Egypt…
‘upcycled’ Moses (more great Passover & other crafts here) Leaven Free Desserts Cleaning up Headless Felt People from this pattern. It’s Passover this week & we came to Drew’s parents for the celebration...
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We made pudding…with wonder & zeal.
chocolate pudding a-lah my dear friend Ang who finally started her family blogging! We watch the Office. We laugh hard & we hope there’s never a final season. One recurring joke is the ‘…that’s what she said’...
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“Guys don’t make passes”–so they say…
After a recent visit to the opthamologist we realized Naomi was in dire need of some spectacles. We had to wait a few weeks for them to arrive from this discount glasses site, but it was worth it. She’s cute as a button. Now I expect...
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Lambing Unexpected.
What a day to forget the camera at home. I recycle pics from our last trip. Today we had to run ‘country’ errands. What does that mean? Well, first, visiting the home of a co-worker that is willing to baby-sit the bee hives while our...
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Picture Day
finger or no finger, that’s a pretty girl. Irish Soda Bread tastes like orange rind, don’t ever make this, seems like a great idea, cake. our 2nd year with asparagus. it couldn’t stay in on a day like today either… wormies...
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Recycled Paper Weaving
::A Simple Afternoon Project: So you can’t keep EVERY painting, coloring page & scrap doodle, but you can re-use some of them! We’re all about printing on the back of old copies, painting on trash-mail, recycling unwanted...
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Counting & Bagging Beans
Back to the old grindstone… I’ve been out for the count when it comes to child-rearing. They’re alive & fed, but these past few weeks have been slow going when it comes to brain food & entertainment. I’m fully...
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Vintage Swap Results
You may have noticed the Vintage Swap button in the left sidebar. Heather of Shivaya Naturals started this fantastic activity & this was my first go-round participating, what fun! First I met a sweet lady, & then I slowly gathered a...
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Babushka or Matryoshka?
We keep bumping into these adorable traditional Russian nesting dolls. First we got this great book from the library. It’s really cute, with great pictures. Naomi loves it. The Littlest Matryoshka Then I found this great pattern that...
Read moreHoot Hoot! Baby it’s adorable…
I just acquired the trunk for the weekend & I have to drop a note here on how cute it is. The line as a whole is a throw-back to an era of simplicity; a time when less was more & details weren’t overlooked on account of abundance...
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Living Without Plastic
Our Attempts to Taper down our Plastic use It’s report-card time. I’m giving myself a mark on the no-bag month of February. C+. We were about 50/50 which would normally be an F-, but we learned a lot (& my opinion is that should I...
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