With the warm glow of Autumn sweeping over the landscape, the grand yellow maple leaves captured my attention with both their size and colour! The abundance of this variety of maple also inspired me. Everywhere I looked, were these beautiful trees laden in golden leaves, laying them at my feet, like a blessing. Before I […]
She flew on golden wings…here are some images of the leaf wings I made at the peak of Autumn’s change. The leaves were so very beautiful and in the process of making leaf crowns, the idea of a leaf cape came to mind. This cape, the way it formed ended up looking like wings. The […]
Life is full of interesting truths, and one to keep in mind in the age of social media, is that a photograph is one dimensional, therefore it does not tell the whole truth. There are a other senses involved to form a reality, that are just not available by the sight of a photograph. Sight […]
Oh my goodness our house smells good, don’t you just love how gingerbread makes the house smell deliciously like Christmas! We have been busy baking gingerbread around here, and just as busy eating it. On the week leading up to Christmas the Girls eat a lot of gingerbread. We have made gingerbread ornaments for the […]
Over steaming hot bowls of porridge this morning the girls were in animated conversation about Christmas traditions. Elle in her unencumbered innocence has a much freer picture of how Christmas morning unfolds, while Maya meticulously described every little detail. “We get out of bed really early and we run downstairs to look in our stocking. […]
Oh yes, the colour, the patterns, the beauty of nature! I can not get enough of making nature mandalas! It is like painting with flowers! Of course it does not have to be petals…as the seasons change, so too does the medium. With the onset of Autumn I have really enjoyed working with leaves, and […]
When we arrived back at home in Australia I made a list of all the beaches I wanted to go to. The area of the far north coast of NSW were I grew up has some of the best beaches in the world. I wanted to see my favorites, share them with the girls and […]
Elle is dabbling in fibs, and while I do not condone lies and find lies disheartening, her little lies are (secretly) causing us some amusement. Now do not interpret this as my not taking this issue seriously, because I am taking it very seriously, but when relaying the stories to Cam at the end of […]
A week in Maine was a treasured experience. We were invited to Yarmouth to stay with my friend Beth. We met Beth through the Waldorf playgroup in Brooklyn. Beth was one of Maya’s teachers. We are so grateful for being invited, as otherwise we would not have made the trip North. We went to Maine […]
A couple of weeks ago I made this wonderful flower clown. We were predicted to have a week of rain and so we went out into the garden and picked all the flowers in bloom that would not survive the downpour. I then made three flower crowns, one for each of us. It ended up […]
The past Sunday was Father’s day, and also our wedding anniversary. We made no plans in advance and then at about 10am I started to feel like doing something. (I have been sick for almost two weeks with Lyme’s disease from a tick bite, but that is too boring to talk about). Sunday morning I came […]
Since the first buds of spring we have been making flower art, and we are getting so much pleasure from it, we just have to share! One of our favorite activities has been making flower patterns, or mandalas. I remember the first one Elle and I made in March, in an almost desperate need to play with […]
Oh this leaf crown, it is one of my favorite headpieces so far. For a few reasons I love it. It feels more like an honest work of art than many of the other things I have made because it is so ephemeral. I also like the fact that it is made from leaves, which […]
We are having a consistent conversation in our home at the moment, and any parent can relate to this. It is the “When it is my birthday” conversation. Now this conversation can actually happen all year long depending on your child, and then become particularly heightened the month and weeks leading up to the birthday. […]
The bluebells are flowering in our garden, and I find them quite irresitable. The long slender stalk with dainty periwinkle bell shaped flowers hanging perfectly from it. They smell divine too. I handled them a little and after a few days of thinking it came to me how I could work with them. Part of […]
I woke on this Saturday morning with a clear goal to to make a flower bathing cap, like you would have seen in the 50″s, but with real, fresh cherry blossoms. We had spent the week admiring the blooming double cherry blossoms and I think my annual attraction to playing with them here and here […]
This week I started working with Papier Mache Magazine. Oh my goodness, do not wake me from this dream. If there was a job I could have wished for, and hoped with all my heart it would come true, this would be it. I have been giddy for weeks over it, and now I have […]
One afternoon last week Elle and I collected Maya from school and we drove to the Reeves Reed Arboretum. It is in a neighbouring town not too far from our house. Close enough to make it an after school trip. This was the first time we had been there. Much like Van Vleck House, which […]
Widely celebrated as one of the world’s leading sculpture parks, Storm King Art Center has welcomed visitors from across the globe for fifty years. It is located only one hour north of New York City, in the lower Hudson Valley, where its pristine 500-acre landscape of fields, hills, and woodlands provides the setting for a collection of […]
We had a lovely Easter morning. The girls came in separately to my bedroom with Easter baskets in hand at 3 and 3:15am. Elle was the first to come in and I suspect she woke up Maya. I heard her little feet patter in and with four year old exuberance said “My basket is full […]