A Monstrous Valentine’s Day!

It all started when I was looking at Pinterest with the five year old looking over my shoulder.  He saw these monsters and thought they were so great.  I had been trying to decide what to suggest that he do for his classmates for Valentine’s Day.  He has a small class this year, so I … Continue reading »

Going Bananas!

I’m walking through our local farm/produce shop on Saturday and we pass by a table with large buckets full of ripe bananas marked $1 each.  Sometimes I’m too frugal for my own good, but I couldn’t resist the bargain which led to a morning full of banana baking on Sunday. Here’s the full details of … Continue reading »

2013: Learn

I have decided to adopt a word for the year.  I haven’t done this before because my resolutions didn’t really fit under a word theme.  However, this year, everything I want to do falls under the word learn.  I have so many things I want to learn and I haven’t really been intentional about learning … Continue reading »

Advent Calendar

We’ve done advent calendars with activities or treats before, but this year we are doing one with activities and treats each day for C1. We are using the advent calendar that I made years ago – and you can tell my sewing skills have improved since I made it – but I just finished adding … Continue reading »

C2′s Sweater

I made Carson a sweater for Rhinebeck, and then it was entirely too warm for him to actually wear it. Mary-Heather did take some pictures at our Rhinebeck house of him in it, but then I lost my camera (boo). The weekend after we got home, I was finally able to get some pictures of … Continue reading »

Photo a Day

I’m generally terrible at these projects, but I’m going to attempt the November Fat Mum Slim photo a day project.  You can see it on her Facebook page. Today’s prompt was colour, and while I’ve photographed this fiber/yarn before, it was the first thing I thought of when I saw it. I’m also playing with … Continue reading »