She absolutely loved this place. The one area I didn’t get pictures of was incomparably her very favorite of all: a room of burrows and a great tree and giant stuffed acorns, seeds, and other crunchy things. There was also a good supply of squirrel, rabbit, mole, caterpillar, and bird costumes, and lots of furry […]
I’m opening an online shop! Poco Mountain Girl Shop is an exciting new venture to feature my handmade arts of all kinds! The shop is very small to begin with, but the horizons are limitless…I have big things envisioned for this little enterprise! On another note (yet completely the same note), here is a new […]
Finally, I’ve gotten around to posting pictures of this doll. It’s the first knitted toy I’ve made, and it’s from my favorite knitting book, Weekend Knitting. The body and clothes are 100% cotton yarn, and the hair is a very soft spun bamboo. It still twists my brain that yarn can be made of bamboo. I […]
So of course, she cut them herself. Alone in the closet. We found her in a pile of curls, a newly found pair of baby scissors in hand. I just stared. Deja vu, all over again. “Baby, I thought you weren’t ever going to cut your hair again.” She avoided my eyes and stood up, […]
Zia and I headed out to the Denver Art museum last weekend. It’s a great, friendly place that really caters to kids, and admission is free on the first Saturday of each month. We stayed for 3 hours…and saw only about a tenth of the museum! Here’s the real reason we stayed so long: the […]
