A Handmade Life

Well...things have been a little...erm...hectic around here and it seems it has been some time since I've visited here.  Thank you to th...

We had a birthday here a little while ago...a two cake birthday. ;-)  That means one cake on the day our family celebrated and one cake on t...

While I love my felted sweater hearts... I really love chocolate hearts from Annegret's (our local chocolate maker). And...I really, ...

We have a tradition of giving the boys one small handmade gift at Solstice.  This year when I was wondering what I could possibly make for m...

E and I have been enjoying watching A Victorian Farm and A Victorian Farm Christmas together.  It's fun to know that the way we decora...

A special young friend is celebrating a birthday soon and so when we went to visit yesterday we took along a handmade gift.  I Love having a...

There is just something I love about traditions - the constancy, the stability, the...comfort, I suppose of knowing that each year around th...

We're enjoying spending yesterday and today finishing  up a few odds and ends.  Yesterday we made our gingerbread people for decorating...

We celebrated yesterday with our Solstice traditions. I LOVE these simple traditions - they bring me a sense of rhythm...remind me of the se...

Last year was our first (and we thought, only) year in this temporary home and we decided that we would take full advantage of the tall ceil...