full colour felting

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Needle felting is addictive – I have even started doing it on my lunch break with co-workers at the office!  The kids are happy to work quietly on their felting projects, turning local wool into ornaments, treasure pouches, lucky pocket talismans and little creatures of all description! All this busy felting means we are running low on some roving colours.  Lucky for me, my friend at Fiddlehead Farm is right around the corner with a rainbow of wool from her generous sheep. And lucky for us, there is a sheep named Margaret whose natural wool colour is the perfect shade for the reindeer and tree trunks my girls have been envisioning!

I cannot show you the finished products (they are all surprises after all), but I can tell you that Pinterest is a great source for needle felting ideas and that kids do not need any inspiration at all…they amaze me with the designs their little fingers create!

What holiday crafts are your fingers busy with these days?

crafting with friends

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We have kicked off the holiday crafting! And in the best way – with a weekend sleepover of crafting with some dear friends (4 girls, 2 mamas and one helpful dad = craft central)!  I cannot share photos of our secret gift projects, but I can tell you this – crafting with friends is a lot of fun and can be very productive (with time left over for feasts, pillow fights, treasure hunts and a musical)!  I have three gifts for my girls well under way, Alex made something sweet for her big sister, gifts for the cousins are started and we have kicked off a needle-felting frenzy that will make many people happy!  SO HAPPY!  Best illustrated by these wet-felted beads that Raena decided to teach herself how to make….

Hope you are finding time for some happy crafting too!

horses run deep

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It has been ages, years, perhaps more than a decade since I last rode a horse.  Today I am walking about with sore leg muscles and a big smile, happy after getting back in the saddle again! A big shout out to my “baby” sister for sharing her experience and love of horses with my girls…..and with ME!

Thanks also to Annie (shown above, photo by my sister Allie) for carrying us into another world.  A equine world that is in my bones.  With horses I am carried back to my childhood, where dreams and stories of horses were a big part of me…where a visit to my Granny meant playing in the barn and riding on her horses, dreams coming alive. Not sure if there are any photos of this time to share with you, but I do have such a beautiful collection of images in my mind.  Here is my Granny Marion, with Beauty, in 1944 when her young dreams must have been so BIG.  I spoke with her on the phone last night and told her all about our riding visit and she sounded so pleased!

When I came home from our afternoon at the barn, I found this next photo in a recently unearthed box of old family photos from my other grandmother.   It was right on the top of a pile of portraits, a fitting reminder that horses are indeed in my bones!  How about you? Are horses a part of your story too?

 

 

vibrant autumn colours

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It is rainy and grey today.  Though this makes the salmon happy and I am glad for that, I yearn for the bright colours of autumn that we have enjoyed so much in the recent weeks. Here’s a splash of the vibrant colours just in case you too are missing them….