Posted in art & crafts & home things on Jan 30th, 2012
Don’t throw away that bottom part of your celery – Save it and make these adorable cards! Cut off bottom of your celery stalks, pat dry with paper towel, dip in paint and stamp on a card to make a beautiful flower! Take off one of the larger stalks from cluster and cut a clean [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things on May 13th, 2011
I had to take a quick break from my long blogging absence to share the amazing opportunity for acquiring such darling FREE paper dolls. I just loved playing with paper dolls as a girl and you could often find me pouring over some Dover book of Victorian or literary figures. There was something charming about [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things on Mar 14th, 2011
…you better know how to set a proper table! Growing up I heard “when you dine with the queen…..” from my mother innumerable times when teaching table manners and etiquette. I admit, I use it on my daughters as well for fun, although Geneva will be dining with “real” Princesses come summer! I have recently [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things, Daddy-Daughter, Geneva on Mar 13th, 2011
Our Sunday project (as Mom was away) was to make a bird feeder, and birdhouse. This turned into a bird feeder, bird house, and hummingbird feeder. We also found an old bird feeder which lacked a roof, so we came up with our own. Mostly I was just trying to find more things to feed [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things, Clara, Geneva, photography on Mar 9th, 2011
I’ve been taking a lot of pictures lately, all of them learning experiences. Geneva is an okay sport most times, but it really cracks me up how for me to get a shot like this: I usually get quite a few like this: I’m hoping Clara will grow up to be a better sport since [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things on Feb 20th, 2011
Posted in art & crafts & home things, family on Feb 19th, 2011
My amazing husband TOTALLY surprised me this Christmas and bought me a new DSLR (Canon Rebel T2i) camera!! It was quite amazing because he somehow managed to fit it into my stocking, which is not large by any means. I was shocked and humbled. He is toooo good to me. I have to say, after [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things on Feb 6th, 2011
I’m obviously catching up on the last two months and that includes our before Christmas happenings. This pic was too cute not to post of Geneva and friends Jacob and Isaiah baking/decorating Christmas cookies. How cute are these three?! I have to say, it really is incredible how completely different boys and girls are from [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things, baby things, Clara on Aug 10th, 2010
Here are the promised pictures of Clara’s new nursery. It’s very calm and light, and I think already fits her perfectly. It’s inspired by her name which means ‘full of light,’ by my mother’s love of ‘bluebirds of happiness,’ and by a verse from Matthew that the Lord has kept on my heart for the [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things, the Father's teaching on Aug 10th, 2010
Michael and I have never had a bed in six years of marriage. A frame and mattresses, thankfully yes, but never a bed. We’d been looking for some time and decided on our ‘dream bed’ – a modern 4 poster – but never had the extra couple thousand dollars to spend on it. Then around [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things on May 31st, 2010
wow, i’m really behind on blogging. May has been incredibly intense, emotional, and busy. More on our escapades later. I just needed to write a second. This is our first weekend home in over a month and despite not feeling well, we are making great progress on house projects. Michael has fixed the garage door [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things, discipleship, Holidays, the Father's teaching on Dec 29th, 2009
Looking ahead to next year Christmas, here’s a craft project that all you moms can start on now and maybe have for advent 2010! This is the Jesse Tree, a Christmas advent calendar tracing Jesus’ earthly heritage (recorded in Matthew and Luke). From Isaiah 11:1 “There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things, Geneva on Jun 26th, 2009
Continuing through the house, we come to Geneva’s room, another of my favorite spaces in our home. I suppose I will have different thoughts on children’s rooms as we have more children and as our living situation changes. But for now I like her room pretty simple, an airy place to calm down and to [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things on Jun 17th, 2009
I, like many of you, have a passion for the home. I have a passion for hospitality and guest comfort, for beautiful and edifying spaces, for pride in history and heritage, for tangible peace and the presence of God. I was greatly influenced by my mother, and our dear friend Lois Wilson, who were additionally [...]
Posted in art & crafts & home things on May 5th, 2009
Call me old fashioned, but I have a romantic affinity for silhouettes. If at all possible I want to have one of each of my children’s faces. I think I’ll wait until Geneva is about 4 before commissioning one of her face, but thinking about the idea I found this artist on etsy and I [...]