Little Dresses For Africa
So, we have all been MIA for a long time now. It’s not that we haven’t been crafting, just too busy with life and the blog has been a bit neglected because of it. Each of us are homeschooling our children and so fall has been a whirlwind of activity as we trade the lazier days of summer for more scheduled days. Kelly, Jen, and I, along with our friend, K, all pull our resources together once a week and co-op our schooling. Each month we work around a different theme or area of focus and this month our focus has been on “Serving Others”. We took a day to hike, play and do some clean up outdoors and we have worked on creating pillowcase dresses to send to Africa through Little Dresses For Africa. Such a great mission project has been going on with this organization and we really wanted to get involved ourselves. So last Wednesday we sent a total of, I think, 20 dresses to Africa and we’re working on some more…they are quite addicting. Here’s a sampling…
Picnic.
Hope you all had a fabulous 4thof July! I constantly experiment with different recipes to help entertain my family’s palette….here’s one that was successful on the yummy chart.
GREEK POTATO SALAD
(courtesy of MaryJanesFarm…June/July’09)
Dressing: 2/3 cup plain yogurt, 1/3 cup sour cream, & 1/3 cup grated cucumber (mix together and set aside)
Salad: garlic (to taste), 6 cups roasted potatos, 1 cup diced tomato, 1 cup cucumber (seeded & chopped), 1 cup diced black olives, 1 cup feta cheese, salt & pepper (to taste).
I diced up some red potatos, seasoned them to my liking (a little olive oil and fav seasonings),
and baked them around 375′
Mix the other salad ingredients together and add potatos (once cooled) & dressing.
ENJOY! There’s plenty to share for your next summer picnic!
Garden Jubilee
What can I say???? Kendra one of our fearless farmgirl friends had a fabulous shabby chic booth at our local Garden Jubilee festival. She put together some themed herb, salad and tea pots and baskets with a lot of nice touches to add to her presentation…. loved your tags! Sorry I didn’t get any close ups of them. Great job on the sign Jen. I brought home some echinacea(sp?) and local mountain mint. The echinacea is in the ground but I’ve got to think about where to contain the mint. I’m hoping the weekend was a success despite the rain.
Gone Goaty
Our kids together enjoying some fresh air at the Carl Sandburg Home. The pairing of children with their siblings is so sweet.
As we entered into the open field the children just took off running and kept running.
And the baby goats.
Camel Love.
While away on a business trip…in an attempt to bring me back something meaningful, my beloved visited a “local” yarnshop! Yes, ladies, I’ve got myself a good man.
Well, mind you, he was extremely overwhelmed with the incredible choices of yarn and used the help of the shop owners. They started trying to figure out what kind of knitter I was and there was finally the mentioning of some unsual yarns that they carried. My husband was “sold” on one in particular….he purchased camel yarn! This is a first for me! My yarn has traveled all the way from Mongolia and the spinners name is Otgonchimeg.
I have 100 grams / 102 meters of this stuff and currently pondering what to lovingly knit it into. I’ve been on Ravelry, but this stuff is so unusual that there aren’t many that use it. Any ideas?
To Be young again
This is my 4 year old bottle of energy and enthusiasm.
Sometimes when i get my on this swing i can feel it too. i should swing everyday.
Walk in the Forest
After feeling the cold the whole winter it is invigorating to get out for a hike in the forest. I have always loved moss… if you look at it closely it looks like a miniature forest. And always faithful to be green.
