kids

fingerless mitts (aka handball gloves)

Boy 2 is a serious handball player at school. If you add up all the recesses and the time he plays at home, he probably plays at least an hour a day. He will actually play until his hands are bloody. Seriously. Bloody. To fix […]

quilt… done!

I actually finished this quilt, for Boy 1, a couple of weeks ago, but just got around to photographing it. These are not the best pictures, but they will have to do. The pattern is Wonky Canasta by Elizabeth Hartman. The fabric was a custom bundle […]

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thinking about the weekend

I know it’s Wednesday, but my mind is still back at the weekend. It was lovely and fairly slow-paced and has me looking forward to this coming weekend as well. We did a little Halloween decorating- always fun when you have helpers. Boy 2 spend […]

in the kitchen

Some fun things happening in the kitchen this week. First off the Husband and I finally got around to canning some jalepenos. We grew these in the garden- a strange variety- they are quite large and red! We used this recipe, which we have used […]

weekending

Have you ever had one of those organizational projects that spirals out of control? Where you think that you are going to tackle a nagging project, but that leads to another, which leads to another, which leads to another… Well that is what happened around […]

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happy half-birthday

The Girl is thirteen and a half today. Strange that I would notice this, you think? Not around this house; we celebrate half birthdays around here. Usually Six Minute Chocolate Cake and a “Happy Half-Birthday To You” song at dinner. The cake is simple, moist, […]

waffles and a quilt show

A relaxed Sunday this weekend. Boy 2 asked if he could make waffles on Sunday morning- a first. He is lactose-intolerant, so we adapted our familiar Betty Crocker recipe to use almond milk and I always swap out some of the white flour for whole […]

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