When your daughter is your sun…

 

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Good to know!

Dog in the Manger by Milo Winter
Tony found a link to Wikimedia Commons where you can find images that are in the public domain in the US. 

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Weaning the wee one

Mogs and I are beginning to wean.  I know that I am ready for it and she seems to be going along with it well enough.  We still nurse 2x a day and have been for the past week.  The decrease was kind of sudden, beginning last weekend.  I noticed on Sunday that she had only nursed [...]

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Another darn nest & the tiny house

I made this pincushion nest yesterday.  It was originally a felt egg whose shape went terribly awry. 

This is the itty-bitty house I made from scrap felt.  Each of the three sides is made from different colored felt.  It was quick and fun to make.  I’m not sure who or what will live in it yet.  For the next [...]

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Nests, but at what price?

Felt nest with lichen
I’ve got nests on the brain.  Since I am felting so many, I spend all my time outside looking into the leafless trees for the real kind.  I’d never noticed how many there were before this year.  My favorite one is in the tree right outside the shop that has my artwork.  [...]

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I am thankful for friends

It was a beautiful, sunny day–we had a feast among good friends–children ran around playing (there’s actually a kid’s table now)–my heart is warm.
I love fresh cranberry sauce:

We found a red-twig dogwood tunnel and drank from Bigelow Springs on our walk:

Dinner is served–a bounty:

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Sunny day crafts

Mogs and I made these beads which we’ll paint in a couple days.  We are hoping to make them into bracelets for holiday gifts. 
The recipe is:
6 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 Cornstarch
1/4 Salt
1/4 Water
Mix it, form it, poke it and let it dry.

I also made some felted soaps to sell at the craft fair.  I didn’t make the [...]

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A slumbering bear has all it needs within

I have harbored a sneaking suspicion that bears don’t actually hibernate .  I figured it was a nice device for the cartoons, a stretching of the truth.  They just slow down considerably in the winter, sleep longer hours and don’t roam as far as in summer months.  Tony and I got in a debate about it last [...]

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Sewing lessons for little hands

Mogs had her first sewing lesson from me today.  I should probably get one of those plastic needles and rubbery sewing blocks from the toy store, but I didn’t.  We went full speed ahead.  We talked about the sharp and dull sides of a needle, where they should and shouldn’t go and how she shouldn’t [...]

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Studio portraits & obsessions

My cluttered and well-loved desk:  

The awesome view from my studio window (don’t ask): 

My current loves—All things polka-dot & polar bear:

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