I made this apron for my dear friend Gina! Now Autumne and Gina both have this great vintage fabric. I was even lucky enough to give it to Gina in person, YEA YEA Lucky me!!!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Being Creative
Harvest of our Labor
My Poke Berry brush. I was so, I am so excited to use the berries to dye some wool. Hopefully, the birds will leave me just a wee bit! They seem so love them!
This little pink flower came up in my garden, haven't a clue what it may be! But it's beautiful, that's really the only important part.
Down to Basic's: Simplifing the dream, See it, Believe it, watch it happen
The other day I was hanging out my clothes and thinking. Wow! I wanted to live my life like Mary Jane from Mary Jane's Farm. It seems like that is what I am doing.
My friend Allison, showed me this book called, " Mary Jane's Outpost" I fell in love with this book and, the idea of the image of this back to basics kind of life. I saw the simplicities of her life and wanted that for my life. I wanted to be self- sufficient and be able to be creative. Thus began our journey of simplifying our life.
I started making my own laundry soap.
Well, we choose to order a part for the washer to see if we could fix it. I emailed the repair clinic and they offer 3 reasons and suggested ordering the how to book. So we ordered one off Amazon for $10.00 CHEAPER, so now we are waiting until we get the book to HOPEFULLY fix the washer! This is our new washer. Make a note ; Need wash board!
Well, we choose to order a part for the washer to see if we could fix it. I emailed the repair clinic and they offer 3 reasons and suggested ordering the how to book. So we ordered one off Amazon for $10.00 CHEAPER, so now we are waiting until we get the book to HOPEFULLY fix the washer! This is our new washer. Make a note ; Need wash board!
My Roses/Dad's
These are my roses from my dad. He had a passion for roses. I remember growing up and he would be out there every summer babying those roses. He had 8 brushes along the fence that separated the 2 houses. I never really appreciated them until he died and than they became special to me. When we got back from the memorial they didn't look to good. This one had the most and it was only about 4 leaves and I had to cut it back so much I was worried it would die. It is doing so amazingly, can't wait until next year and they will be gorgeous! This is my dad's memorial rose. I made a memorial out of a brick. That sits in front of the rose.
Lammas
For this year's Lammas we used our pumpkins and made, well Autumne made some scrumptious muffins with raisins and Cinnamon, cardamon, molasses and a few more ingredients. Than she made a sauce from the pumpkins we had 2 and one more we still growing. Autumne is such a creative little baker. She amazes each day with her creative baking abilities.
Jerry's B-day
For Jerry's Birthday we told him it was his day to relax. This is not an easy task for my husband at all. He has an autopilot that tells him to be stress, guess it's helpful in getting things done!. We gave him his gifts and told him he could spend the morning reading, so he did.
He finished his book he was reading, on his b-day. His goal was by the end of the summer . . . .he made it!!! He was reading the history of oil, an 800 page book. I would of given up long time ago, but he finished it. Jazzy couldn't resist takin a snooze too!
Jerry took some time to play the guitar. He put himself to sleep!
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