Change is in the air

Lots of big changes have been going on around here, and one of the many balls I dropped was my poor innocent blog. But I’m back in the saddle again! Riding the range once more! So one big change is that I’ve started a delightful job as a teaching guide at a Waldorf-inspired farm school. [...]

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Random projects, random art, and a sandbox

Doll has been repaired. I can’t find the before pic I took, but her poor little self was all ripped and stained and worn through. I found her in a box in the top of the closet in my old room on a recent trip home and kind of freaked out a little. I don’t [...]

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And so it begins

The tot’s first embroidery project.  She was completely uninterested until I pointed out that it was dangerous, at which point there was no stopping her.   Of course I forgot to take pictures of the felt heart ornaments I made for an exchange my moms’ group is doing. Oh well, this is way cuter.

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Feelin’ Stitchy

I’ve started a tea towel to give my mama for her birthday. This is my first embroidery project aside from a tracing of the tot’s hand that I made for her great-grandma one Christmas. ‘Cause I need an excuse to buy more craft supplies.   If you’ve never come across Sublime Stitching, please check it [...]

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Stirrings

The tot got some seed packages and biodegradable seed pots in her stocking this year. They were a huge hit. Of course we had to go ahead and plant a couple, and the first one has just sprouted. I have been saving eggshells for months to use for sprouting seedlings – I can’t wait to [...]

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Quilted

For you consideration, two poorly focused shots of the inadequately quilted crib quilt that I finally gave up on and finished binding on the machine. So it’s half hand-bound and half machine-bound. I make my own rules. Actually it’s the quilt I made for the beginner’s quilting class I took, and she didn’t have us [...]

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Merry and Bright

This afternoon I was consumed with a burning need to make a bunch of holiday ornaments. I really didn’t have time for that, though, so I ran around taking pictures of what I already had up. And making a couple of finger knit garlands, but that hardly counts. I love that everything we have out [...]

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Advent

This year I was determined to make an Advent calendar. The problem is that I never think of this until the last minute, and to be perfectly honest the beautiful felt scenes and similar that I so admire are not really something I’m going to get around to. But I never think about it in [...]

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Sharing some Happy

Head over to GardenMama to see her latest giveaway.  And while you’re there, check out her new store! And while I’m at it, here are a couple of things that are high on my happy list! Angry Chicken’s theater Checkout Girl’s Let it Snow tutorial OK, I’m giving up.  I have more but I need [...]

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Sweetness

If you’ve never checked out GardenMama, head over there pronto and check out all the beauty she’s sharing. And right now she’s got just the cutest giveaway ever going on! So hop over there and share some love.

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