This week I’ve been keeping a very bored little girl busy during her brother’s spring break to NM. When she got tired of painting and drawing and reading books and watching nature movies, she asked to try finger knitting, then crocheting with a hook, and finally needlepoint on plastic canvas. After that she chopped up […]
“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.” -Ivan Doig, The Whistling Season
And it’s not my bottom. Not that mine is that small, these days. These are some little woolen diaper covers I made for the baby, just to try them and see how they work. You pull them over cloth diapers in place of rubber pants. I know it seems funny that wool would be waterproof, […]
“The work will wait while you show your child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.” -Patricia Clafford
Zia was really excited when I picked up this little birdhouse for her at Michael’s Crafts. She told Caleb it was going to be their special project together, which of course brought groans of delight from him. She did manage to get him to draw a face on the front. She colored the little house […]
