weekending
February 26th, 2012 § 4 Comments
I haven’t felt very inspired to pick up my camera lately, which is one of many reasons this blog has been rather quiet. But this weekend, I decided to dust off the camera, and this is the result. Perhaps I went a bit overboard…
This weekend was very full, and very together.
We started off the weekend with a morning of sledding and snow eating. We’ve learned this winter that if you wake up to a world of white, you better go out and enjoy it, because it might not be so white anymore by the afternoon.
There was a bit of knitting, which of course requires my bag of notions to be raided and stitch markers to be scattered across the living room.
Jake and Adeline shared a bit of daddy/daughter Super Mario bonding time. Adeline has developed a taste for princesses. Disney princesses, to be more specific. We’re trying to convince her that there are some other great princesses out there . . . so now she pretends she’s Princess Peach.
Some brew was bottled.
We learned about clouds.
Adeline has been talking about herself in the third person.
A & B were good friends these past few days, which is a relief because I’ve had it up to here with playing referee all day. Adeline even helped put on Bea’s diaper and get her in her pajamas, which is the first time she’s helped with a diaper ever.
We spotted a cardinal eating our birdfood this morning. It was a mama, so she wasn’t that cheerful spot of red we always hope to see, but she brightened our morning nonetheless.
As has been the trend this winter, our snow didn’t stay long, leaving us with plenty of mud to play in. We went all went out for a walk, and before we’d even been out two minutes, Bea fell right into a puddle. That’s what happens more often than not, actually, when we go out for walks in the mud.
Hope your weekend was full and wonderful, too.
Joining Amanda today.
all of a sudden
February 20th, 2012 § 1 Comment
she went from this (writing with “the bumps”)
to this
She’s been writing us little cards and letters. So fun! Of course, she has her own unique spellings (though she’s pretty good at sounding words out), and there are no spaces between the words, and sometimes it’s hard to tell what a letter is supposed to be, so unless I’m watching her write it out, I usually can’t read the finished product. But, oh how I treasure those little notes! This is such a wonderfully exciting stage. And this reminds me that I have yet to post part two of our letter learning. Will try to do that soon.
{this moment}
January 27th, 2012 § 8 Comments
From Soulemama: {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
chalk cloth puppet theater
January 25th, 2012 § 4 Comments
After a good friend of mine saw our puppet theater, she sort of commissioned me to make one for her kids.
By that time, I’d bought the book Oliver + S Little Things to Sew, and wanted to try out the doorway puppet theater project, which is a lot better constructed than my by-the-seat-of-my-pants felt theater.
The project has a very cute fabric house on the front (you can find a picture of it here) and I struggled with the choice of fabric, or whether I should leave it off entirely. Then I had a flash of brilliance — chalk cloth! Or perhaps it was not really so brilliant, as it made the theater sort of bulky and hard to sew. However, I think it also stayed in place better than a fabric “house” would have, making a few less wrinkles in the end.
So anyway, now they have a fully customizable puppet theater/store/restaurant/house/whatever! And we can’t wait to come over and play!
{this moment}
January 20th, 2012 § 8 Comments
From Soulemama: {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
coffee & corduroy coasters
January 12th, 2012 § 4 Comments
After I made myself these coasters, I promised my friend Gi I’d make her some, too. For her birthday. In 2010.
Well. First I had a case of fabric-related indecision. Finally I settled on this idea: coffee & corduroy, a play on the name of her blog.
I am a super-procrastinator when it comes to hand-stitching. I’m not sure why, because once I finally force myself to sit down and do it, it’s never that painful, and it never takes very long. But it’s pretty obvious that I don’t practice much, because my hand work is still atrocious. I tell myself it looks more folky that way. Anyway, I’m sure Gi will understand, since she is the person who pointed me to this Wendell Berry quotation:
“The body characterizes everything it touches. What it makes it traces over with the marks of its pulses and breathings, its excitements, hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. On its good work, it leaves the marks of skill, care, and love persisting through hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. And to those of us who love and honor the life of the body in this world, these marks are precious things, necessities of life.”
So, here they finally are, only one year late, the Coffee & Corduroy Coasters. Love ya, Gi!!















































