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oooh yes please x
SouleMama Sponsor ~ STUBBY PENCIL STUDIO ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, I am pleased to tell you about our sponsor Stubby Pencil Studio! In owner Kate's words: "Stubby Pencil Studio offers a wide selection of eco friendly and affordable art supplies and gifts for children. Several new items are now availa...
Yes Yes, I am also Tiff obsessed x
Crochet hangers
Meet my new crochet obsession - Tif's 'Crochet Happy Hangers' I am seriously 'into' these gorgeous hangers but have only managed this one so far. I'm finding the final row of single crochet around the edge a little fiddly so next time I think I will make my shells triple crochet stitches inste...
that book looks fab, I would love to win it x
SouleMama Sponsor ~ RHYTHM OF THE HOME ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, I am pleased to tell you about our sponsor Rhythm of the Home. Rhythm of the Home was created by Heather and Bernadette. In their words: "Rhythm of The Home is a free quarterly magazine based on the seasonal rhythms of the Waldorf and...
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Oooh that easter egg colouring set looks fab.
SouleMama Sponsor ~ IMAGINE CHILDHOOD ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, I'm happy to be talking with and about our longtime sponsor, Imagine Childhood. In their words: "... a little nature... a little imagination... a lot of play. Toys, tools and activities for growing minds. Imagine Childhood is a family ...
Guess Who
The Children love Book Character day. This morning I spotted, Snape, Red Riding Hood, Pippi Longstocking, The Invisible Man, The Cat in the Hat and many others. I couldn't resist when I saw this pink and white candy stripe cotton jersey in the fabric shop. The pattern is a Simplicity nigh...
I think 2010 is going to be a vintage year, I have a little crush on the mysterious cushions of 2006 mind x
the pillows of the year
After five years of this gig, I sometimes get a funny perspective about the nature of blogging. Of course, there are so many things that never even make it onto the blog. But then, given the nature of what I do write about, sometimes some very silly things that do get blogged about. And blogged ...
I would so love to win some of this beautiful yarn. Happy weekend Amanda x x
SouleMama Sponsor ~ SUNDARA YARN ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, I am pleased to tell you about our sponsor Sundara Yarn. In the words of Sundara herself: "Sundara Yarn hand-dyes a wide range of luxury fibers for knitting, crochet and weaving. The majority of our yarns our one of a kind, "Limited ...
I haven't got one and I have always felt a bit left out. Especially at school. And even more now that there is a special "day". Poor me!
Just call me Betty!
Did you know that Middle Name Pride Day falls in March? Did you even know or care that there was one? I didn't until I heard the DJ talking about it on Radio 2 as I got ready for work this morning. I had a look on the web when I got into work and can't find out exactly which date it falls on bu...
OOOooooh I do that to my husband! Nothing like a good sniff!!
The Good ~ day 5
My scrumptious love If I could..I would breathe him in and frequently try to.
Hmmm, I need to get on to that.
take good care
I love:: This hour once a week that's all mine. When no one calls me Mama...or SouleMama. An hour full of: scratched up dance floors; shuffle-ball-changin'; silliness; laughing alongside girls half my age and women twice it; dear friends; Broadway showtunes; oh yeah, and sweat too. "...under...
Guess Who
The Children love Book Character day. This morning I spotted, Snape, Red Riding Hood, Pippi Longstocking, The Invisible Man, The Cat in the Hat and many others. I couldn't resist when I saw this pink and white candy stripe cotton jersey in the fabric shop. The pattern is a Simplicity nigh...
Oh.My. I love the retro look of these fabrics. And your new hair colour x
love in voile
I am so in love with Anna Maria Horner's new voile line of Little Folks fabric. (It's available in Anna Maria's shop, as well as in the shop of one of our sponsors - Alewives.) Of course her colors and designs are stunning as usual, but oh, this fabric feels so good! It's the kind of fabri...
It is the yellow fondant fancy for me! Yum!
Birthday love to you Pink Cat x
Happy Birthday Pink Cat!
It's Pink Cat, Custard and Cake's First Birthday! (It was actually yesterday but it rained so much all day that I couldn't get a good photo - groan!) Can you believe it's been a year since I started putting my fingers to the keyboard and attempting to give you an insight into my silly, busy li...
BEAUTIFUL. please count me in x
Soulemama Sponsor ~ ALEWIVES FABRICS ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, I am pleased to tell you about our sponsor Alewives Fabrics. In the words of shopkeepers Barbara and Rhea: "Alewives has been selling fabrics to Midcoast Mainers for almost 40 years and for the past five years the shop has been owned ...
My two are 9 and 7 and STILL love a stick! At the moment they use them as ice breaking tools x
the more things change
A visit to the attic boxes for a little wardrobe sizing-up for Mr. Harper Pie, led to the discovery of this hat I knit for Calvin (when he was my littlest guy). (Pattern notes on Ravelry.) As always with such sentimental hand-me-downs, it makes me think. About what each of the...
Ooh, I think that means it must be a year for me too, I am sure we started out at about the same time, would love to win your book x x
Home wanted
Sunday evening already! This weekend has really flown by. It has been a quiet one as I'm still not feeling tip top after my sinus infection last week (thank you all so much for your get well messages, they really cheered me up!) and now Mr P is laid low with a tummy bug. We are a very sickly ho...
I couldn't figure out what Emily was talking about with her box cake texture. I get you now, we call them packet cakes here in the uk, same difference, took me a week to work it out mind x
The Quest. (Or, I love box cake.)
I have been on the hunt for a perfect yellow, or white cake recipe. I love box cake. I love the lightness and the texture—it's my ideal cake. It's what I grew up eating. My biggest disappointment with cupcakes, the fancy kind from the fancy shops, is that the cake is too heavy. Too rich, too m...
My baby girl adores that top one, Sold!
a bag jubilee
I don't know what the collective noun for 'bag' is, I just made that up... I've always liked the word 'jubilee'. And I had fun making all these bags for my shop update this week. I made a couple for grown-ups, including a market bag from sturdy striped wool. But some are for childre...
The Twilight Books. Edward Cullen I love thee!
fresh corners :: read
A little bit of fresh art in this corner. The "READ" print is from Portland, Maine artist Eric Hou (available in his shop here). And a fresh stack to read in this corner. At my bedside: Alabama Studio Style, Sew Liberated (more words about this one coming soon!), Buddhism for Mothers of...
A bunch of daffodil's, fashioned from egg cups. A mother's day gift made by my five year old daughter in 2006. They still nod happily (if a little faded) at me from their little place on the kitchen windowsill.
Your cover illustrations are rather lovely x
Handmade Marketplace + Giveaway!
I'm double...no, triple excited to share this new book with you, The Handmade Marketplace, by Kari Chapin. One: because I illustrated and lettered the cover, as well as the book's section openers! Two (and far more important and interesting): The book really is an honest-to-goodness, exhaust...
I think I could cope with your cosy indoors a lot better than that chilly outdoors x
my view, right now
outside :: We had thought today would be spent finally playing in the snow. But alas, it appears that all of our finger-crossing and snow-dancing didn't work. The 'storm' amounted to not a whole lot and I think we'll be back to melted, bare ground in a matter of hours. Perhaps we should ...
Culture Club!?
I love sharing music from "when I was a girl" with my babies, last Saturday we downloaded some Adam and the Ants and danced around the kitchen. Don't think the babies enjoyed it quite as much as we did!
wanderings
Among some of my favorite moments in life are surely those in which a few hours are 'lost' wandering through aisles of 'stuff' with dear friends. Literal and figurative. Treasures and Treasured.
This is jusst so timely, I was wondering "To block or not to block?". Now I have blocking board envy!
Blocking Tutorial
Okay, this is so easy it's almost not fair to call it a tutorial. I was up way past my usual bedtime of 8:45 p.m. last night (Portlanders what did you think of the Wilco show last night? [Wilco, why are you so awesome?] I was very happy. First time I've seen them inside. :-) so I am sorry I am l...
Just think of all of the memories knitted into those gentle coloured rows, what a lovely idea x
slow knitting
A year ago, I cast on 220 stitches on a size 9 needle. Using leftover bits of worsted weight wool, I started knitting in garter stitch, changing colors when I felt like it or when a new ball of yarn was sent to the basket. Some days I knit one row, some days I knit twenty. Sometimes I've...
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