Posted on March 18th, 2012 by mountain girl | 1 Comment »
I painted a couple more boxes for my midwife. This one will be sent to a midwife in Haiti whose name means “sun”, so I created a sun design. I worked in acrylic paint rather than the gouache I used last time, so the paint is durable and doesn’t need to be sealed. Although I […]
Posted on March 16th, 2012 by mountain girl | 2 Comments »
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.” – John Connolly, The Book of Lost Things
Posted on March 15th, 2012 by mountain girl | Comments Off on moose tracks (not the ice cream kind)
I found these tracks coming up through our snowy property and out onto the dirt road. I wasn’t sure what they were at first…elk? But elk don’t have the two points that come down behind the hoof. Then we found a match online…moose! A moose went traipsing by our house, probably at night. I can […]
Posted on March 13th, 2012 by mountain girl | 1 Comment »
Lately I haven’t been terribly creative with my food. I guess I’ve just been too busy…eating. For two. But today I have not one but two amazing recipes for you. At least, I think they’re amazing. You, on the other hand, might think they are just a little strange. Recipe#1: Green Smoothie. This was my […]
Posted on March 12th, 2012 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
This weekend we went to the Boulder County 4-H Fair. Caleb wanted to go skiing, so we dropped him off at Eldora and went on to the fair with a very excited little girl. It was a fun little indoor fair, run by kids and their families. They had a nice mix of livestock, games, […]