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new spaces /new year: the living room

January 16, 2012 Art

Ah, the living room.  Once a place of no functional space now brightens my day.  This corner of our room (where our Christmas tree stood) has always baffled me.  Our large painting has always hung here, leaving little options for filling up the space around it: maybe a plant or a chair.  It has always [...]

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new spaces / new year: dinner helper

January 13, 2012 Creativity

It seems like all we do is prepare food, eat food, and clean up from eating food with a family of six.  Do you ever feel that way sometimes?  We recently started a chart of “dinner helpers” who are responsible for, well, helping with dinner.  Caroline, 6, and Johanna, 4, are the only two on [...]

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new spaces / new year: a baking station

January 12, 2012 Bake

We don’t buy bread.  And for that reason, I am supposed to be on top of things in terms of baking our daily bread, rolls, etc.  This is definitely a weakness lately– just ask my family.  They know those days well by eating crackers with their lunch.  I’m pretty tired of it, too.  You see, [...]

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new spaces / new year: kitchen

January 11, 2012 Create

Good morning.  I’d like you to meet my favorite new hues of my otherwise unexciting kitchen. These colorful jars have a place on my kitchen window sill, a place where glasses usually sit (Bobby’s glass forgets about its place at the water station often), random buttons and other tiny objects, my herbs, and the likes. [...]

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homemade giving: the homemaker’s set

December 13, 2011 Gather

I’m sitting here looking out at the frost outside my window, wondering how much sleep I really got last night.  With one child in our bed back and forth through the night, the other waking with bad dreams, and yet, another, totally awake and ready for the day at 5:30am, I’m guessing not much.  She [...]

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homemade fabric christmas bags

December 12, 2011 Create

I’m always seeking out simple ways we can invite more tradition and meaningfulness in our home.  Creating our first homemade fabric Christmas bags has begun something magical under our tree.  Because you choose the fabric, make the bag, use real ribbon (and other things to decorate with), and can change up each wrapped package because [...]

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homemade giving: mix + match napkins

November 17, 2011 Create

With all of the stress from what’s been going on with my parents lately I’ve thankfully turned to my sewing machine to deal with it. Sewing. It has been a perfect, productive hobby where I can get lost sewing and listening to my Pandora station–right now I’m loving Nouvelle Vague.

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swiss chard chips

November 10, 2011 Bake

Swiss chard. I’m always stumped when the ”toss out” date is approaching and I need to use it up and fast.  Here’s an unusual use of swiss chard and for snacking of all things. Don’t be chased away by these leafy greens, they actually taste quite good as chips.  Ainsleigh couldn’t get enough.

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a homemade water station mat

November 2, 2011 Children Tutorials

A few weeks ago, we had had it.  There were about 5 glasses per person, per day making their way into the dishwasher daily. I tried to figure out a way to keep one glass per child per day to keep down the washing and keep the girls (and myself) more responsible.  My solution was [...]

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homemaking for the modern mama: a cleaning station

October 20, 2011 Create

I’ve always looked for ways to involve my girls in the cleaning process of our home.  First of all, because I need the help in a household of six.  And second of all, because they need the experience of being a part of a whole where everyone contributes. Our cleaning station was invented to provide [...]

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