In the quest to have a child and dog friendly Christmas tree (i.e. nonbreakable and can be played with), I made several wool felt Christmas ornaments this year. They are pretty basic, just shapes cut out with a bit of embroidery on them, stuffed with a bit of wool roving and sewn together. I’m not [...]
Here’s a quick update of what we’ve been up to.
First, it snowed. A lot.
There was enough snow that David and Zoe made an igloo.
We made snow cream. (About a cup of milk, a bit of vanilla and a bit of sugar, stir it up and pour it over a bowl of fresh snow. Yummy and [...]
Its officially one week until the night when the stockings must be hung by the chimney with care. I’d better get cracking and finish these up!
There’s nothing like a good deadline to bring a project to completion. Or at least that’s my hope. :)
We got back from a wonderful whirlwind four day Thanksgiving holiday and the kids were understandably a little wound-up and crazy. Amazing food, lots of family, lots of riding in the car and lost routine all add up. And did I mention they were wound up? Anyway, after 4 time-outs before 9am on Monday, we [...]
When David’s parents first got married, they worked and lived on a dairy farm in eastern Washington. They were pretty much swimming in cream so they got a Dazey Churn to turn their share of cream into butter. They haven’t had use for it for awhile, so they gave it to us! Here’s what it [...]