I am popping in to wish you a happy Easter and spread a little more Easter cheer before Easter morn arrives. We have been counting down the sleeps and now with both girls tucked away in bed, we are down to one, one more sleep until the bunny arrives to fill our baskets with sweet […]
After making the easter block prints, I had used up my last block of speedy-cut and was down to a pile of odd shaped cut offs. Not wanting to waste these small bits and pieces I was inspired to make a few tiny random shaped stamps…and a little bird too. I had so much fun […]
The week before last we were busy printing and I showed you the Easter basket tags we made for Maya’s class, but that was only part of our printing production. We also made Easter cards for friends and family and Easter invitations for the street Easter Egg Hunt we are hosting on Easter Saturday. Our […]
To celebrate vernal equinox I organized a spring planting project for Maya’s class. I was inspired by the wheat grass baskets the teachers from Maya’s Waldorf Playgroup had done in the past and decided I wanted to carry on this tradition with Maya’s Montessori Kindergarten class. It is a lovely project to do with young […]
Last week I joined a Waldorf Home Schooling group, but as it turned out most of the members are an hour drive away, so a little too far for us to join in on the weekly gatherings. I am however enjoying the weekly group emails, and invites, and even though I am not physically attending […]
When Spring approaches and the last snow for the season seems to have passed, we take down our paper snowflakes and turn them into Easter eggs. It is always sad to see our pretty wintry snowflakes go, but the positive thoughts of spring quickly come to mind and we know Spring brings so much beauty […]
I was carried away in a gust of inspiration on Thursday last week, and this was the outcome: a shadow puppet theatre box! What fun right? This idea must have been bubbling in my subconscious from the frequent vision of the rainbow silk silhouettes that I mentioned in my last post. I rose Thursday morning, […]
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and so we have been busy with Valentine craft. You might recall the Feather Heart Headbands that we gave to our friends at our Valentine’s Party last year. This year Maya’s class is having a party, which we will be making cupcakes for, and I have made a Cupid’s arrow […]
Today I finished sewing this tee for Maya. I brought this knit fabric home with me from cleaning out Mum’s house. I recall this fabric being in our green sewing supplies chest of drawers when we lived at Darcy Drive, which makes it maybe 20 -25 years old. I am not exactly sure if this […]
With a cozy snowed in weekend, we enjoyed being tucked away indoors occupied with wintry activities. Maya started early with a snow inspired puppet show. I love to see her setting up a puppet show, and always offer my help so her ideas flourish. The main character of this puppet show was a fox that […]
With some zippy sewing – and the added ease of repeat production, I finished Maya’s Matryoshka hot water bottle cover yesterday. As you can see it is identical to Elle’s hot water bottle cover in design, but with different fabrics. This one is as trifty as the last, using another old change pad cover […]
During Maya’s last week of school before we left for Australia her teacher gave her an artist quality drawing book with instructions to draw and write in it while she was away. Maya obviously listened seriously to him as she filled every single page before returning back to school! I have to admit, this was […]
You may have noticed last week was quiet on my blog – it was because I was busy fulfilling my New Year’s resolution to sew more for the Girls. You might recall the folk skirt I completed, as well as two other skirts I have not yet shown, and now this – Matryoshka hot water […]
We made snowflakes this week, as is our Christmas tradition. Usually I put them up on the windows in our living space, but there was a lot of decoration happening already in the Living/dinning/kitchen rooms and so they went on the Windows of the Girls room. The Girls have four windows, and I put snowflakes […]
No, it is not quite that time in our house yet, although it wont be long! I made this little tooth fairy house pillow for a friend’s daughter for her Birthday. We have been incredibly blessed with new friends since moving to Montclair, and yesterday we to a really fun party to celebrate a sweet […]
I started an exciting Art project with Maya’s class today that I will work on with them throughout the rest of the Kindergarten year. A few weeks ago I had the idea that I wanted to paint a tree on the classroom window, and then make seasonal items with the Children to decorate the tree. […]
Jump, spin, dance, sing, skip, twirl, laugh… This is what you do when you get rainbow ribbon wrist bands… Here is the next item for Maya’s Rainbow Halloween Costume – rainbow ribbon wrist bands – you will see I followed her design exactly! Created in much the same way as the fancy Wrist Bands I […]
I was able to spend some time at the sewing machine this weekend, something I feel like I do not get to do enough! Cam took Maya to swimming lessons and Elle tagged along and so while they were out, in a sewing frenzy I made this personalised garland for Elle, and something else for […]
I am toadstoolly crazy…and I have been having so much fun! With a little over a week until Elle’s Woodland Mushroom party, I have been focused on all things toadstool. I love how when I set my mind to a project, I seem to be infinitely inspired and can work tirelessly at creating an experience. […]
I have a very long to do list at the moment, feeling happy to cross this one off the list today. It is amazing how when you actually sit to make something it can take so little time. I feel like I put as much time into thinking “I must make Maya’s rainbow crown”…and then […]