Back in February I shared a tutorial for these seed paper valentines Sairshe and I made for her classmates. Making seed paper is easy and the finished product is beautiful to use for cards, gift tags, ornaments, garlands (like I made with our leftovers), and anything you would use paper for! Often people wonder how [...]
Posted in Canning and Food Storage, Gardening, Recipes on Sep 15th, 2012
Mike and I recently got 5 pounds of basil. Combine that with the large amount we have growing in our backyard and we are swimming in basil. Five pounds of basil is a lot. We had bowls and buckets of basil in the kitchen and more stuffed in the fridge. Good thing I love basil. [...]
Posted in Children, Family, Gardening, Spring on Mar 26th, 2012
Oh, Portland. I love you but this weather is a little ridiculous. We don’t get much snow here, especially not in March, but on the third day of spring we woke up to an inch of snow. Sairshe was a little sad to see the flowers she planted covered in snow. By the time I [...]
Posted in Gardening, Holidays, St. Patrick's Day, The Outdoors, Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2012
You can find my writing today at the EcoEtsy blog where I have a post up all about clover and eco-friendly lawn care. Fitting for St. Patty’s Day, don’t ya think? In real life I’m hanging out with my 2 little Irish lasses, at least one of whom is sporting a new shamrock hair clip. [...]
Posted in Gardening, The Outdoors on Mar 14th, 2012
A few weeks ago, Sairshe and I dug up some old plants and prepared a little patch of dirt in front of our house to plant some peas. Somehow that little project turned into a much bigger one. Funny how those things happen. We’ve been wanting to reduce the amount of grass that we have [...]
Posted in Children, Family, Gardening, Spring, The Outdoors on Feb 24th, 2012
I’m tired of my front steps looking like this. I try to ignore the dead plants and broken planter every day as I rush in and out of the house with 2 kids and their accompanying backpack, coats, books, stuffed animals and everything else they want to take with them into the car and then [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Gardening, Places, Seasons, Summer, The Outdoors, travel on Oct 22nd, 2009
. . . and do I have a lot to share. I certainly didn’t intend to have such a long blogging hiatus but it happened anyway. It started with my summer from hell. Soon after the lovely birthday party, summer camp started. Lots went wrong- mostly database issues resulting in registration issues and unhappy parents [...]
Posted in Gardening, The Outdoors on Jun 10th, 2009
I’ve survived the toddler birthday extravaganza, complete with another cake and more celebrating on June 2, her actual birthday. The summer camp I direct starts in a week and a half and I’ve been busy getting ready for it. I finally had a weekend to relax last weekend and it was so nice! With the [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Children, Family, Gardening, Seasons, Summer, The Outdoors on Jun 9th, 2008
It’s windy and cold and the weather doesn’t seem like it’ll be summer-like anytime soon. Despite that, I picked a whole lot of strawberries from the plants in my front yard today and that feels like a summer activity to me! Sesame won’t eat strawberries if I offer them to her at mealtimes while she’s [...]
Posted in Celebrate, Gardening, Seasons, Summer, The Outdoors on Jun 27th, 2006
The state fair is coming and I am so excited. I was practically raised at fairs. My mom is, and my grandma was, a fair judge. They judge baked goods, jams, jellies, sewing, crafts, you name it, they can stick a ribbon (or not) on it. Some of my earliest memories …
