. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Today, I bring you a giveaway from SouleMama Sponsor, Stubby Pencil Studio. In their words: "Stubby Pencil Studio is a small, family run, boutique offering eco-friendly art materials and school supplies that are healthy for children a...

I am very happy today to be able to host a giveaway for Kyrie, the inimitable Mama behind Mama Mead's. Perhaps I am especially happy because the giveaway involved getting to sample the goods for myself. Ahem. In any case, Kyrie has just opened her baking business to the public, and her goods a...

I managed to make some gifts for fmaily and friends from my garden this year. Some early-flowering plants went to seed last week, so I gathered the seeds and made little packages of them with watercolour labels. And lavender I dried a couple of weeks back made some nice little linen sa...

With all the glorious produce coming in, the work of preserving it all begins. My freezer is beginning to fill, the pantry shelves are getting crowded, crocks are 'brewing' in various stages all over my kitchen counters, and a root cellar is in the works (yes!). I've been getting lots ...

Hot off the press (typewriter) and fresh on the newsstand (refrigerator), sandwiched in between Calvin's summer camp schedule and Adelaide's recent book list, I bring you this bit of news from The Daily Soule News (written by Ezra): "Amanda and Steve Soule with a new book! Amanda and steve so...

There are many things in Asher's life that have not come easily to him. He could not sit up, crawl, stand or walk without intensive physiotherapy. When he began to read, he saw all of the letters and numbers very differently, and had to learn how to make them face the right way and stay put in t...

A quick hello. The past ten days have been an absolute whirlwind of finals, house guests, graduation, parent-teacher meetings, huge deadlines for Simon and many other things which I can not even recall. I will get to them as I want to post about them so as not to forget them entirely (well, at l...

** I'd like to start by appologizing for my lack of discretion yesterday. I am sincerely sorry if it offended anyone. I really do not condone foul language nor would I allow my children to speak in such a manor. I was mostly just being cheeky and could've done a better job of keeping things who...

The cosmos flowering continues unabated in the garden, and I couldn't resist bringing some inside to paint. I matched them up with some more favourite plants, (none of them seasonally accurate, but never mind that) and got them printed into cards for my etsy shop. I like their smooth an...

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Today, I bring you a giveaway from SouleMama Sponsor Lisa Leonard Designs. In Lisa's words: "At Lisa Leonard Designs, we create custom, hand-stamped jewelry and gifts. Each one has a unique look and organic feel. Come on over...