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  ...before this one gets too big.  Some photos from a day last Fall.

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Meet Calico, the newest member of our (growing) family.   Calico joined our family a few weeks ago as a gift for Erris.  She had been asking for a kitten since we lost our barn cats when we moved back to CA.  It just so happened that a friend of ours was trying to find homes for some kittens...so there you have it!  A very special birthday gift. I was downloading the pictures and

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"EARTH without ART is just EH" - anonymous We have traditionally followed a "Waldorf Education" model with our homeschooling.  The past two years we have branched out in a few areas.  I have seen that not everything in that educational model fits with both of my school aged daughters.  I am not capable of bringing everything to them in an awakened and true manner (such as Eurythmy!).  Up

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We celebrate Halloween in our home.  It's always been one of my Mother's favorite holidays and watching her enjoy the day with my girls over the years has been priceless. I realize it's the day after Halloween, but I wanted to get this posted in case someone wants to use it next year.  All songs, verses and rhymes are taken from WeeSing for Halloween with minor adjustments.  I grew up

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Ah!  I had so many blog posts running in my head for the last 2 weeks and absolutely NO time to sit down and type them out.  If some little gnome could just follow me around, take gorgeous pictures, and then write what's going on in my head...I'd be set!  Right? Fionnuala embroidered this pumpkin using part of the kit we received from a swap I did manage to get some Halloween crafting in,

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I made these Maple leaf boxes out of beeswax for my swap friends...they smell heavenly! After taking a year off and stepping down as moderator, I have recently started swapping with my old Bits of Goodness group again!  I forgot how much fun it is to share and craft with other people from all over the country (and Canada too!).  I got my package back a few weeks ago for our Magical Forests

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Our center. Our banner. Oonagh as the apple tree. Erris running story time. Autumn Circle - Apples and Leaves   **As we light our candle: Fire fairies fire fairies, come to our circle Let the fire fairies come, bringing golden light from the sun! **Opening Verse: The Earth is firm beneath my feet, (touch hands to ground) The sun shines bright above. (Make sun above head

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Fresh jujubes!  I used to get these at our old Farmer's Market, but they were dried.  I would make a tea by boiling 2 dried jujubes with 1 knob of ginger.  It's considered a digestive tonic and has an interesting earthy, but sweet taste.  I learned this from the farmer himself who sold them to me...never even thought to look it up or delve into their other powers.  I had never eaten a fresh

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Time to update my CSA search.    One of the many little ones I feed all day long... FarmBox LA was up next on my list to try. I chose their "Complete Farm Box - Standard (No Meat)" which consists of the following: -1/4 lb to 1/2 lb local, California artisan cheese  -1 quart fresh-squeezed, unpasteurized orange juice -1/2 dozen vegetarian fed, true free-range eggs (Lily's Eggs)

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 Welcome To Fionnuala Fridays (I am so sorry about the last two weeks.  I was so busy I coudn't find time.)        I am starting to love caprese salad.  My sisters call it my Caprese Crazy! I got the idea for this Bruschetta caprese at a restaurant called ,Pitfire Pizza If you live in LA you may have been there before. :) I will post the recipe underneath. Bruschetta Caprese And

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It feels so good to finish a piece you've been working on for a while.  That's what I focused on this week.  Finishing bits and pieces that were calling out for attention.  I started this dress back when Fionnuala was 6 (now 9).  She's grown about 2 feet since then, so it has become a tunic of sorts. It's a lovely dress for Caoimhe (4 years old), but Fionnuala doesn't want to hand it down

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An old friend is pregnant with her first child.  I think I may be more excited than she is!  I just loved the feelings around my first pregnancy...amazement, excitement, impatience, imagination.  It was such an amazing journey into mother-hood.  I am blessed with fairly "easy" pregnancies, but there are a few herbal remedies I like to use to help make the pregnancy a blissful one. This bath salt

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Snack time is a big deal in my house.  My kids are grazers.  Really?!?  Yours too?!? Since we home school, they have constant access to the kitchen and it can be a drag to be a short order cook and wash a thousand dishes every day.  After breakfast I close the kitchen until "snack time".  When it's officially snack time, the kids wait at the table to see what's on their boards.  It's kind of a

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Guess what the kids ate first? I used to always post our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) boxes.  We had so many great options when we lived in Long Beach. At one time or another we were part of: Urban Farm Tanaka Farms The Growing Experience Farmer Steve - Citrus Harvesting our pears and peaches Fall 2012 in WA For the year or so we were in Washington we had our own garden and

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Joining Ginny in her Yarn Along....for the first time in almost 3 years! I started this gorgeous piece so long ago that I have two problems: 1 - I cannot for the life of me remember the yarn I bought.  Hopefully I have enough! 2 - I started making it for Fionnuala when she was 6 and now she's 9 and about 10 inches taller!!   Problem #1 is probably worked out since I have 2

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  A scoop of ghee out of the fridge for our eggs this morning! We’ve been making ghee regularly in this house for a few years now.  I first started making it when researching options for cooking without vegetable oil.  There are quite a few lovely ghee making tutorials out there, like this one…and this one.  That’s NOT what I am doing here.   Here I am posting real life ghee making pics.

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**Note from mama- Fionnuala was the one who inspired me to start blogging again.  Since we have slowly started to introduce a bit of media into her world, I wanted her to be involved in a fun way.  "I want to inspire other girls to cook, create and help out their families".  I couldn't be more proud of her.  As far as homeschooling goes...she is learning skills in photography, editing, typing,

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 I am working on beautifying my blog space.  Please excuse the dust while I figure out photoshop and and other computery things I probably don't have time for!!  Ha! As I begin to blog again, I want to make an effort to share more of our Homeschool days.  I get so many questions and rarely have good answers...perhaps just sharing what it is we do will help inspire others.  I know when I

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I wake up to posters...sometimes.They are full of love...sometimes.

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  It's just about time to start writing again...I think.  Honestly, what's kept me from writing is this insane idea that I would need to transcribe this enormous "comeback" post where I talk about everything we have been doing in the past 2 years.  There was also the part where I wanted to design the website and make it pretty before I put up a post.  I

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Joining Ginny for her Yarn Along! KNITTING: Overalls!!  These overalls will  be finished...I promise you.  I have been working on these (on and off) since last November.  The plan was to make them for Baby C for Christmas.  Check out the pattern at The Purl Bee.  Aren't they adorable?  I bought this lovely Euroflax linen yarn and started knitting and guess what?  I hate it!  The

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**I am truly missing my time in Blogland lately...I'm working on something, kinda small, but kinda taking up a lot of my time.  I hope to share it in this space soon, but until then my posts may be more sporadic!** This Dehydrator Diaries post is inspired by one of our favorite children's books, Jamberry! Here in Southern CA strawberry season has begun, yay!  Even our own backyard

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After like a year, I am finally joining Ginny with her Yarn Along!  I kept meaning to...but, you know...Actually this is the first ever joining or linking I've ever done!I really love the idea of sharing what I've been knitting and reading...it can open up such wonderful dialogue!   KNITTING:I am working on a scarf for my Mother-in-Law as a birthday gift.  I am using Manos Maxima yarn in the

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So we were having one of those days...you know...the kind where the kids needed an activity, STAT, or someone was going to go crazy...mostly likely me. I recalled seeing on Pinterest a recipe for sidewalk paint.  I looked it up and decided to make it happen. The original recipe called for food coloring...um, no.  We don't have food coloring in our house usually and I certainly wasn't in the mood

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Here's another post about a swap, but I figure it's fun to see all the crafty Bits Of Goodness, right? This was the Winter Nature Table swap... Felt snow-woman by Barb D. Needle felted campfire by Sandra. Wooden polar bear by Rhonda Felt deer by April. Felted rock with embroidered accents by "unknown". I was still in my beeswax candle craze...so I made these for the swap.  100 pure local

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