I don’t love carving pumpkins and I’m not over the moon about Halloween. We do however live in a neighborhood where we get 1500 trick or treaters. Kids love the holiday so I’ve learned to embrace it. When my 8 year old said she wanted to have a pumpkin carving party I said sure, why not? […]
Archives for October 2017
Birthday Traditions part 2
I love to celebrate birthdays with my girls. With each year passing for each child, I feel like it’s my birthday too. I made it around the sun another year with them. I was there the day it all started, the moment they were born. So crafting a special day for them is something I […]
Journey to a serger
For years I have gotten by without a serger. All the while I had one sitting in a plastic bag that my aunt found at a yard sale for me. But it intimidated me. I could still make things like this little fat quarter dress. But then it frays and I have to cut the […]
Feeding all the eaters
What is it like feeding all these eaters? First of all they are picky. Multiply that times four and we have quite a bunch. After being a vegetarian for 2o years we now eat more of a paleo diet. We wanted to cut carbs, non-nutritious fillers and processed foods. There is still a lot of organic, processed […]
Fairy House Building
I get these Waldrof inspired ideas in my head from time to time, as if we are living inside the page of a beautiful book featuring perfectly frolicking children in a sea of playsilks and fairy houses. But the real life excitement for such things waxs and wains. We spend a lot time outside and my […]
Aligning life through yoga
Alignment based yoga has been the foundation of my practice since I stepped into my first yoga studio in 2002. It was a full fledged Iyengar studio in Atlanta where all the teachers traveled to the Iyengar Yoga Institute in India to study with B.K.S Iyengar. These days I post about doing yoga with my […]