Posted in Crafting, amazima, tagged amazima, amazima update on August 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I haven’t fogotten you! Dolls have started to come in! Check out these new fun dolls that have shown up at my door recently! (The pictures are just a sampling from each crafter!)
These little boys and girls are sleeping on one side and awake on the other!
I’m thrilled to tell you that [...]
Posted in Crafting, tagged amazima, box bag, knitting, wet-on-wet watercolor on June 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We had planned on being out of town to meet my new little niece. But about an hour out of town, little man got ill. We had a short window to decide if it was a one time fluke or a bug we’d be exposing a newborn to. We erred on the [...]
Posted in Crafting on May 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Just stopped by one of my fave crafty blogs, Make-Baby-Stuff.com. She’s got a tutorial and info on doing your own screenprints!!!! So cool!!
Now I want one. Dear Santa. Please oh please can I have a totally frivolous little screen-printing set? Ideas are whirring! That sounds a lot [...]
Posted in Crafting, Natural Toys, tagged knit toy, Natural Toys, waldorf doll on May 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Kitchen experiments:
1. Discovered you can’t hurry yogurt. Just stick with the crock pot instructions. Oh well. It was only 1/2 gallon of milk. Can’t win every time!
2. Sourdough–I didn’t get the bread made, but managed pancakes using the starter! They were simple and tasty! NOTE for future: [...]
Posted in Crafting, Natural Toys on March 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yes, I tend to go over-board with new projects.
Started a playscape last night. I have very limited colors left, and totally ran out of red and green, so it will have wait until I get more colors to finish it up. But it’s starting out pretty cute I think!
Little campfire for the gnomes:
And [...]
Posted in Crafting, Natural Toys, tagged gnome, needle-felting, wool on February 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
…I keep finding cool new crafts to try! I asked for and received some needle-felting materials for Christmas but hadn’t progressed beyond making a couple of the sample projects and a felt ball or two
I keep seeing cool needle-felted things and thinking “But *I* can make that!” Ok, I couldn’t replicate some people’s [...]
Posted in Crafting, Uncategorized, tagged Etsy, potty-training, spotted box, Waldorf Dolls on January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I finished my Spotted Box samples! Excuse the poor lighting…I need to mail them tomorrow but wanted a photo of what they looked like. It’s six multi-colored pieces of bow-tie pasta in pasta-like colors. Cuz I’m picky like that! ;P (Yes, if you can read the little insert info, you [...]
Posted in Crafting, Natural Toys on January 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The barn got here! It my first big splurge with profits from my etsy store. And the perfect excuse to finally take pictures of some of the wooden animals I made Little Boy for Christmas! The painting was a joint effort, but clearly we have some learning yet…it looked good the first [...]
Posted in Crafting, Natural Toys, tagged cpsia, Etsy, koolaid, Natural Toys, playsilks on January 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m another year older again. I survived. I picked out my present and I’m very excited for it to arrive! I ordered a beautiful wooden advent spiral by Holz und Spiel. I’d been waiting for it to get back in stock at my favorite online toystore, Three Sisters [...]
Posted in Crafting, Natural Toys, tagged birthday crown, felt, gerda muller, toddler birthday, waldorf on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My baby turned two a couple of days ago! It’s hard to believe it. But with all of the ideas he had about birthdays, I think we managed to get things done to his satisfaction. He got his balloons, cake (albeit cheater angel-food with kool-whip–but hey, with just three people, who wants [...]
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