Our children love costumes. They love dress up, pretend play, becoming someone (or something) by changing their clothes. I love sewing. I love making things for my children that gives them joy. My husband loves building things. He loves making something from nothing. So Halloween has become the perfect time for collaboration of all the things we love to… Read More »Costumes – Our Handmade Halloween
The flurry of making over the last few weeks is finally wrapping up today, with signs of much activity all around. There are piles of fabric that need to be folded and put away again, pieces of string and fluff that need to be swept from the floor, bottles of paint that need to be put back and I’m not… Read More »Handmade Halloween
Today was probably our last warm day of the year. It was quite glorious actually, and I didn’t want to spend much of the day inside, so I called for the children to put away their school books early and we went outside to accomplish one of the big things on my “before winter” list. We needed to mark the… Read More »Marking Maples
I have to admit, I was looking for something that needed repair. Surely somewhere in our home there was some item of clothing that still fit the wearer but needed some mending. Maddie’s jeans fit the bill perfectly. Some of the websites tell you to use a sashiko needle and thread, but since I don’t have either of them, I… Read More »Mending
There seems to be a trend in my knitting these days – I keep running short of yarn. I make sure I have enough based on the yardage requirements for the patterns I’m making, but it isn’t lasting through the whole project; My Moonlight Garden shawl, started in May for a May knit along, ended up being set aside because… Read More »Coming up short
“Oh! You’re sitting at the table! Wanna play a game?” It’s pretty much a constant. Anytime this girl sees someone sitting relatively still, and often when they aren’t, she attempts to entice them into “just one quick game”, which, more often than not, turns into more than just one game, especially as siblings wander by and want to join in… Read More »Card Play
I wrote these first words Monday night: The text came through, “Heading to the birth center”, and my heart leaped for joy and then caught in my throat. My first baby is about to deliver her third baby. My thoughts were such an unruly jumble of a mixture of; I can’t wait to meet him, I hope her delivery goes… Read More »Grandbaby the Third – It’s a Boy!
We had a quiet day at home today. No errands to run, no trips into town. Home. I didn’t get everything done that I thought I would, but I spent a beautiful time pushing my youngest son on the swing as he talked to me and told me stories and ask me questions – his favorite thing to do when… Read More »Stillness Found
Once upon a time, there was a young blacksmith. Like many trades, blacksmiths learn more skills throughout all their lives, and so like all blacksmiths, he was still learning his trade, though he was much more at the beginning of the learning than at the ending. One day, this young blacksmith, Zach, wanted to give a birthday gift to a… Read More »A Satchel, a Blacksmith and a Story
Yesterday was one of those perfect early fall days. The sun was shining, the skies were blue, the air still warm but drier and crisper than just a couple of weeks ago. We had a few days of being home this weekend and I had caught up on all most some a little of the inside house work (yes, well,… Read More »Grazing (and appraising the garden space)