I collect bees and beehives. Have I mentioned that before? I can’t remember. It started when Bon Bon was 4 and Semisweet was 3. We were learning about bees for school, in particular how all the worker bees were female. They decided since they work hard too that our school would be called Beehive Academy. […]
Archives for July 2008
Monthly Baby Onsies
I love figuring out new gifts to make for friends and family. Ones that are really awesome, somewhat different than the norm, and so fun to do that I know they will be a go-to gift for quite a while, or until I run out of people to give them to. My friend Julie had […]
Farm Mural Masterpiece
(click to enlarge the photo and get all the cute child drawn details) Fudge loves to draw and color. She created this farm mural scene and taped it to our front door. Here’s a little deciphering if you can’t tell what is what starting at the top left: pigs, barn with rooster, sheep, duck, horse. […]
A gazillion things to do
1. Stop by all the bloggy giveaways2. Research some school curriculum for next year3. List some more products in my etsy shops4. Read the blog posts in my reader5. Actually sit down and start planning out the next school year in detail not generalities6. and much, much more all of which require the internet. Only […]
“Wild” Flower Garden Progress for July
1. Baby’s Breath, 2. Chinese Forget-Me-Nots, 3. Yellow Coneflower, 4. Pink ZInnia, 5. Light Pink Zinia, 6. Red Poppy, 7. Pink Poppy, 8. Wild Flower garden in july, 9. Marigold We haven’t done any official Outdoor Hour Challenges since the middle of June. We have been studying nature however, particularly observing the progress of our […]
How I Meal Plan
Living out here on the farm far from town has really required me to fine tune my skills at meal planning. No quick runs to the store to get something for dinner! It’s a good thing I was already trying to limit my grocery shopping to once a week before moving out here. There are […]
Sharing Sisterly Secrets
We spent last evening out on the lawn enjoying the slightly cool breeze, though the air was smoky from the California fires. It was good to be outside. Being cooped up in the “sick” house for two days is NOT fun! The girls are all recovering from their bout with the stomach flu. So far […]
Are we out again already?
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Ewww YUCK! Upchuck!
I know that’s not the kind of title you really want to read but that pretty much explains our situation at the moment. All plans for the day have been sidetracked by two little girls sick with the stomach flu. Poor Truffle and Fudge having been laying on the couch each with their own containers […]
Customizing Your Blog Part 7 – Everything Else
Before reading this post I recommend reading the previous posts in this series:Customizing Your Blog – Part 1 Gathering Patterns and ColorsCustomizing Your Blog – Part 2 HTML CodeCustomizing Your Blog – Part 3 FontsCustomizing Your Blog – Part 4 Creating a New HeaderCustomizing Your Blog – Part 5 Adjusting Columns and MarginsCustomizing Your Blog […]
PLEASE DO ME A FAVOR!
I’m not one to beg or even really ask for help but this time there’s something I really need your help on. Shutter Sisters is collaborating with Blurb to create two image laden photography books. One book will be called The Daily Click. It will feature photos from their Daily Click stream. And guess what? […]
10 in 10 Meme
This last meme “10 in 10 minutes” comes from Zippy. The idea is you take ten pictures of the specified “items” below, write-up a post about them, and let all your friends and family get to know you a bit better. The trick is, you can’t do any “clean-up” before you take the pictures…you just […]
Mosaic Meme
My aunt Nancy tagged me for a meme that I’ve already done here. So I thought since she likes photography I’ll tag her back with this meme Lola posted on her blog. 1. Monasterio de Montserrat (HDR), 2. I ate 6, 3. .a glimpse into our day., 4. Beautiful old lady from Darap(Sikkim) village, 5. […]
Old Red Barn Giveaway
Don’t you just love homemade quilts? They just exude love. It’s not everyday you have a chance to win one, especially not as lovely as the one being giving away over at The Old Red Barn. Really, go take a look and tell me you don’t love it. I’ll wait……. See? Told you you’d love […]
My dear Avi
I’m going against my own plan this week to stay away from blogging because I just have to post this link to the obituary for my grandfather, Avi, who passed away Sunday morning. He was so special to all of us. I have sweet memories of living two houses down from his when I was […]