Lina on January 3rd, 2010

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 [...]

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Lina on January 3rd, 2010

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 [...]

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Lina on December 17th, 2009

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.  :)

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Lina on December 1st, 2009

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 [...]

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Lina on November 10th, 2009

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 [...]

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