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Monthly Archives: April 2010
I'm not in California… yet. and I don't have a garden…yet. I'm still living in my least favorite place of anywhere I have ever lived, a place where terrible, heartbreaking things have happened to me, where I have been through really hard times, a place with harsh weather, and very few redeeming factors. I will miss the friends I have made here, but nothing else. We are supposed to be moving back to California in a few months. This has seemed too much to hope for and foolishness to count on even though my husband's job says we are deffinetly moving there. But I have begun to let myself hope, anticipate, dream, even plan…
I was inspired by this post on DesignSponge to draw out the wishes that have been hiding inside for fear of being disappointed. The past four years of living here has not been a season to flourish – I have been busy simply surviving. I did make a little container herb garden which I sketched above.(it has been dismantled already in preparation for the supposed move) A lot of things will change in our lives when we get to California. It feels like a huge step of faith to say this and to sketch out my garden. At the start of the post are all the vegetables I want to grow in a square foot garden that produces all of the vegetables we will eat fresh and can.(I dream of Hibiscus planted all around the house) I would like to find a farm or ranch where we can buy healthy, natural meat, and buy all our fruit from the amazing farmer's markets. I won't be able to raise any livestock or chickens where we will be living, but (now the dreams are really kicking in!) I hope to buy a horse within a year or so and keep it at a nearby, affordable stable so that I can start teaching my kids about taking care of animals in addition to growing their food.
I made a gardening coloring page for my kids click here to download it!
I read a post about "Keeping Record" of your child's life today on the blog Bloom. She talked about the difficulty of keeping up with preserving all the special memories and shares a way she has simplified the process. This is a constant quest for me to document my family's life so that my children can enjoy, learn and hopefully be inspired by it later… I do a little scrap-booking of holidays, but I try to keep from getting hung up on spending too much time trying to make scrapbooks perfect. The most powerful and enjoyable way for me to capture childhood moments is through art. I have drawn and painted portraits of each of my children. These are my most precious possessions and I have been honored to create portraits of other children for their parents. I detail the process in this post and I am always excited to talk about new commissions! I am also working on illustrating my first children's book. It draws on experiences that I want my son to remember, and is designed to help other children create their own memories – more on that in another post soon… I have two boys and for us spring isn’t filled with cute bunnies and fluffy chicks. Nope for my boys spring means snakes, bugs, frogs and other creepy crawly creatures they love. So I made them simple, patchwork spring snakes that are cute enough that a little girl could love them too! Read on for the DIY How To…
First cut out 2 sets of strips of scrap fabric 3in wide and of varying heights. The heights need to add up to about 20in. I cut some of mine too wide at first and had to go back and recut. You can lay the fabric on top of each other and cut both sets at the same time.
Your spring snakes are ready to meet the kiddos! Have Fun!
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