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morning walk

we took a morning walk for a change of pace. i know we all get plenty of outdoor time, but there is something so mysterious and almost seceret about walking quietly through a still morning. frost on the grass. pink and yellow coming over the mountain. birds silent overhead. feeling both warm and cold. happy children.

back at home, after breakfast dishes were cleared away, we sat down at the kitchen table to carve. wyatt sketched out two designs and we each carved one.

(thank you for this picture, isabelle)

there is no joy quite the same as the one felt when your children take an interest in one of your own passions…

friday morning

it’s a rainy friday morning…

we’re cleaning and working on some projects. the kids have a huge fort in the living room and they’re pretending to be ants. wyatt is a working ant, isabelle is a baby ant, and i am mrs. ant.

i’m trying to get a few projects going. sometimes when i have a lot of projects to do, i feel so overwhelmed that i don’t do anything. i’m trying to keep the momentum so i don’t fall into that trap. here’s what i’m doing:

stamping 150 cards with my business information. this is a custom order that needs to be in the mail in less than a week.

i mounted the inside text (“thank you”) to a clear mount. it’s small enough to press by hand, though the front image of the card will still have to go through the press.

i wound a gazillion (okay, only three) bobbins for the sewing machine. i wanted to make a couple old-sweater-owls. i don’t have any plans for where they’ll go, but it seemed like a good way to get off track.

during breakfast i knit a couple rounds on this baby pumpkin hat a friend has asked me to knit. it’s not my favorite project, but i’m not going to pick up any other knitting until this is done. hopefully that will only be another day or two and then i can get on to someĀ other things…

finally, the kids decided it would be a good day to make a pinata. that basically meant they each applied 5 strips of newspaper and then wanted to wash their hands.

i finished it and left it in the basement to dry.

this afternoon, my mother’s helper is coming and i plan to get a lot of crafting done! i should have many wonderful things to show you on monday. have a great weekend!

an old fashioned barn raising (of sorts)

we went into the mountain to help some friends with their vacation camp. well, the kids and i went to watch cris help…

it’s a timber frame, so they literally put the framing together and them 8 men pushed it up and secured it into place. it is amazing and beautiful, just like the woods around it. you have to cross a mountain stream by foot to get there and then hike up a big hill. the kids had so much fun exploring and wyatt and his new little friend spent the whole day building. they both brought their own hammers, so with wood scraps and a pile of nails the built “boats” and sailed them in the river. so cute! isabelle and i just hung out by the water and visited. and of course, i got in some knitting and journaling. if you haven’t already, you should consider this book.

i love the feeling of community when a group of people come together just to help friends. the day was filled with so much joking, laughter, accomplishment, teamwork, happiness and appreciation. to show for it? a completely framed building at the end of the day!

p.s. – on a totally different note, if you’re in the middlebury area in the month of july, swing into carol’s hungry mind to check out my prints on display!