Honeybloom at Home has a post here that I think speaks volumes. She quotes Bertrand Russell (British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner) as saying: “A certain amount of boredom is…essential to a happy life.“ Another quote she gives by Russell: “A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced […]
When I was small, my mother made me a little apron. It was a present – for what, I don’t remember (birthday? christmas?) but I do remember it was red with little blue roses all over it, and the lining was light green (bearing a strange resemblance to one of our worn pillowcases:) Most of all, I […]
Another year has rolled by. Then again, make that shot by. Sometimes I wish time would s l o w d o w n just a little. These little egg-carton birdies were one of our last projects of the year. I wish I could remember the site I got this idea from (their birds were owls), but anyway, thank you, […]
Guess what I bought this week? If you guessed 101 cookie cutters, you’re right. Yes, I did. I bought 101 cookie cutters. She and I both love them. Of course, we had to put them to good use just as soon as we got our 101 cookie cutters home. So… We made salt dough! Salt […]
A package from Mimi came for Zia in the mail…full of bright feathers and jungle stickers! After the first breathless moments of random sticking and unsticking, we decided to make a hat. Then we took it down to the creek we’ve been playing in every day. Our creek is just over a mile from our house. It has mossy […]
