Emma and Sophie helped me plant bulbs last fall. Emma had asked what we were planting and I told her tulips, and that they would bloom after the snow melted. So once the snow finally disappeared, Emma would ask, “When will our lips grow?” The other morning, just… Read More »Mom, Our Two Lips are Blooming!
My stitching with rope as a way to focus has been exactly what I needed and didn’t know. I’ve been making, and experimenting, and, well, playing, with the rope. Playing with shapes and thread colors, and moving into playing with colors through natural dyes – only turmeric and… Read More »rope therapy
My goodness I’ve been absent for such a long while! We find ourselves to be in a season full of so much potential change. I find my thoughts spinning out of control at times, as one decision nearly made presents even more changes and choices to be thought… Read More »Thoughts Spinning
I read just the other day that the U.S. has 3.1% of the world’s children, but buys 40% of the world’s toys. That’s pretty eye opening. We’ve been doing our own sorting and purging here for the last long time. We still have toys, but sometimes I wonder… Read More »who needs toys
Last week when the Littles asked if they could please sew, I wasn’t too hard pressed to come up with something. A couple of colors of felt, a bit of embroidery floss, a cookie cutter set for the pattern, and we were off stitching away for… Read More »sewing hearts
Do you see anything wrong with this picture? I was washing up the breakfast dishes, and far outside my kitchen window I saw something that shouldn’t be. Some things were walking where they shouldn’t have been. (Abby, my faithful companion, loves having some work to do. Her presence… Read More »wrong side of the fence
I’ve been doing quite a bit of rearranging lately – moving furniture in the living room, rearranging the Littles’ bedroom to make room for all three of them, and trying to create a bit of creative space for us all. That last bit of rearranging was my most… Read More »make me jammies
(Babcia. It’s Polish. It means Grandmom. There are other ways people spell it, and lots of ways people pronounce it. We say “bah’-chee”. I love hearing my oldest granddaughter call me that.) Over five years ago, when I was just a few months pregnant with Sophie, my 6th… Read More »on being Babcia
About 2 years ago (I think it was 2 years ago, it might have been 3), my husband had 4 days off from work. And we had recently had a bit of a leak in our dining room ceiling that was caused by a certain child who forgot… Read More »A Little Blue, and So Happy About It
Before Norah was born, Cate fell in love with two quilts from one website, both a very crisp and fresh plus pattern. But not knowing whether Norah was going to be a boy or a girl, ordering one wasn’t an option. After Norah was born, the very one… Read More »Norah’s Quilt