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Valentine's Celebration....
Our traditional Valentine Fondue ...with a Sharp Cheddar Fondue, crusty bread chunks, slightly steamed veggies and tiny, cooked new potatoes.There was a milk chocolate fondue with banana chunks and...
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An interesting sort of canvas for a new kind of art....
"good guy" on the front"bad guy" on the backfancywearing Grammy's wig!"she's got the whole world on her head" (??!!)sometimes she paints by herselfsometimes she allows guest paintersavant-gardedoesn't...
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Great Green Garbanzos!
Look at these drool-worthy recipes....or theseWith the quart or so of green garbanzos that we picked up at our local international foods market......we ended up just going the simplest route. ..a quick...
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St. Patrick's Day Shenaningans
The twins are home for Spring Break (!!!), so we started our St. Patty's Day with Irish Breakfast tea and a scone bake-off (between Sodie and I).(I have to confess that hers were actually a tiny bit...
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Spring Equinox!
Welcome Spring!Folks around here have started mowing their lawns again...but not us. Look at this tapestry of "weeds"! So much more beautiful than "lawn"!We collected some of those sweet violets to...
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Cherry Blossom Festival
flowering cherryNot very many pictures from the Sakura Festival this year...it was a rainy day :(The next day the sun peeked out again and we were able to enjoy the beautiful blossoms of the season.
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Introducing Beeswax Modeling
Here is a story I created for Toucie when we were ready to begin beeswax modeling this spring.We spread a blanket under the lilacs where the bees were working, had a pretty tray of apple slices and...
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Toucie turns 6!
Today is Toucie's special day...she's been 6 times 'round the sun!Toucie's request for birthday dinner?Pancakes and bacon!A stop by the pet store for a special birthday gift!Meet Chervil, a Dwarf...
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Hot Cross Buns and Paper Dolls
We found our recipe for Hot Cross Buns here and our wonderful vintage Betsy McCall paper dolls here.
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Easter!
"easter bonnet"Daddy likes to do these bright dyed eggsMama and Toucie tried some eggs dyed with onion skinspretty golden eggs!We threw some yarn in to make the most of the leftover dyeHmmmm...why...
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May Faire at the Waldorf School
We gathered rhodos, peonies and vinca to share at this year's May Faire.We used some of our flowers to make garlands to wear.Toucie welcomes the May Queen with a bouquet from home.I think these are the...
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May Day Preparations
Gathering local flora for our May baskets.Using plastic cups like last year. I melted holes for the ribbon to thread through using a wood-burning tool.We're ready to sneak these over to our neighbors'...
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May Day at the Strawberry Farm! (and Toucie has a party)
We wanted to celebrate Toucie's birthday with a strawberry-picking party, but they weren't quite ripe yet on her birthday, so we decided to wait a few days and have a super-grand MayDay/birthday...
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May Day Crafting: Rose-Scented Oil
Most often we mix up a big batch of lavender bath salts to celebrate May Day/Beltane...this year we thought we'd try something new.There are so many fragrant and colorful roses blooming around us right...
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More May Day preparations
Our May Day feast featured this beautiful loaf of bread, shaped into a braided ring, and made into a cucumber and cream cheese sandwich.Here's how it came to be:This was a last minute idea, so we used...
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Sewing Project: The Perfect Smock
I love this pattern! It is the art smock from Little Things to Sew, by Oliver + S.I made this for a child's birthday, but here is Toucie modeling it for me :)front viewback viewit has such great...
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The cicadas are here!!
they look so exotic...like jewels...and there are gazillions of them everywhere...singingI used to find and play with the left-behind shells when I was a kid.best book EVER about the phenomenon of 17...
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Springtime moments...
new lambplanting blueberry bushescan you see the little chipmunk sitting on this catalpa tree?fuzzy caterpillar sashaying across the top of our field guidemud pies!the pony of her dreamsfirst harvest...
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Renaissance Faire
Gorgeous Toadstool fairy!!!Mado, Naya and Sodiethe most outrageously awesome music we've ever had at the Faire!!!Cu Dubh!!Cu Dubh (pronounced koo doo) was all bagpipes and percussion...so, so...
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Is it time for popsicles?
We made a return trip to the strawberry farm.I wanted to lay in a good supply for the coming months!And this time I brought along some picking power!Toucie and my momSodieMadoNayaToucie was seduced by...
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In the hospital again....
in the Emergency Roomour team works hard to help her feel better as quickly as possiblebut we will have to stay in the hospital for several daysand find ways to stay happy and busywe try to make...
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Home!
We went straight from the hospital to the backyard! And we added a pink "faux-hawk" to celebrate Toucie's growing hair.I guess this is the expression that people with mohawks are supposed to...
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