I forgot to take pictures of this week's creative endeavors,* but I remembered to take one of Ti'Loup's quilt. (fresh out of the washing machine; should have ironed it for the photo. :P )  And because frigg made me laugh with a comment the other day to the effect of "In my mind, your craft room is a pristine space," you also get a bonus of the reality ( Read more... )

When you ask the parents of a newborn if you can come by and meet the baby, please, come by and meet the baby ( Read more... )

Both Junebug and Sprout are pleased with their brother, wanting to hold and caress him at every opportunity. They are both really gentle with him.

And snuggled around the cute babyness, you can see the blanket I made. I'll try to get around to taking a photo of it laid flat.

( Baby pics )

The thought that perhaps went through the gardener's* head before he ripped up our corn seedlings ( Read more... )

I guess I can close the link on what to do if birthing one's baby happens unexpectedly at home or in the car. :P ( Read more... )

This morning, Sprout and Junebug donned J's and my clothes so they could be the parents.  Sprout informed me that our housekeeper would be keeping us "children" while she and Papa went to the Opera.

She and Junebug went into the yard and were sitting on the steps:

Junebug sings "Who Let the Dogs Out!" *
Sprout: That is not what you listen to at ( Read more... )

Not very well if it's not planted, that is for sure.

We had actually started planting back in, um, February, I think, but it was a bit here and there as we tried to build up enough compost to do a "lasagna bed."  Given that we don't receive much sunlight in our garden, our first efforts have left us a bit ho-hum and unmotivated.  But after I read barbarienne ( Read more... )

Last week, Sprout and I were in an accident on the scooter ( Read more... )

Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts about gift-giving in my last post.  I'm going to reply here with what we ended up doing ( Read more... )

asakiyume has some lovely painted cookies, and she shared the recipe with me in the comments of this post (do click through, even if you don't plan on making any cookies, to admire hers.  And here are some lovely example of stars and more angels).  I made a batch to take to a Christmas party today* (um, many cookies did not make it because we had to, um, ( Read more... )