Monthly Archives Mar 2009
Felted Wool Snakes and Other March Creations
March 31, 2009
It's been a busy month of crafting around here. I know that soon the activities will move outdoors (not today though, it's rainy, cold, gray & blah) so it was good for the children to spend this last month of winter felting, stitching, painting and sculpting. I'm always so proud ...
Ride baby Ride!
March 28, 2009
It really does feel like spring when we can get the bikes out of the garage and find clear paths to ride on. The driveway still has piles of snow but we found dry sidewalks at the nearby college campus. Brienne's first time on two wheels With me running along ...
small notebook, small world
March 28, 2009
{photo credit: Brienne Tougas - the kids are taking such great photos these days!) FIMBY has been a quiet blog for the past couple weeks, understandable given the recent events. And I haven't posted anything actually useful for at least a month. As much as I like posting photos and ...
missing the creative me
March 26, 2009
I've missed my creative self over the past week. Without my daily time to write, look over photos and put my thoughts together here on this blog I feel like my life starts to unravel a bit. {photo credit: Brienne Tougas} I wonder if this is a bad thing; my ...
Grieving, writing, remembering
March 23, 2009
My father-in-law passed away this weekend. This is one of the few times I've felt blog speechless. Obviously this is a private family time and yet my relationship with him is a part of who I am. And so I am left floundering for words that I can express here. ...
Maine Maple Sunday
March 23, 2009
March just isn't March without mud, sunshine, snow, ice and maple syrup.
Short on words
March 18, 2009
Dawn from my daughters' bedroom window I've worked these words over and over in my head and there is no poetic, witty or encouraging way to write about this. Sometimes life is painful and heartbreaking. We got a call yesterday that I knew would come someday, but the reality is ...
Last week of winter FIMBY Finds
March 17, 2009
Here in Maine we will have winter-like days till mid April but Spring officially arrives this Friday and we like to celebrate the seasons around here so I'm saying goodbye to winter this week. Farewell. So long. See you next year. I'm very uninspired today to write much so it ...
The farm in March
March 13, 2009
Yesterday was the last winter farm share pick up. A day both sad and sweet. Sad because the next pick up, the first of the regular summer share, is 2 months away. Sweet because the end of the winter season means only one thing... spring is on it's way. In ...
Our very own double ugly
March 13, 2009
Our library is having a fundraiser right now. During last week's visit we noticed various gifts, trinkets, crocheted do-dads and gift certificates displayed in the silent auction. The children's room had their own fundraising table set up. I was stopped in my tracks, quite literally as I made my way ...
Culture in your neighborhood
March 10, 2009
A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning introduced me to the idea of classical music and art appreciation. I was intrigued and we tried a somewhat modified approach that first fall after I read the book. It hasn't seemed to stick. Maybe you remember this ...
it's about time! ~ a winner & mama starts to knit
March 9, 2009
Announcement of knitting needles giveaway winners.
A late winter reprieve at the library
March 8, 2009
The afternoon is waning. I should really get going home soon. It's been good here, in this library chair. Quiet, purposeful, peaceful. This morning I prepared breakfast and put a vegetable medley in the crockpot. Packed up my box (I tote around more than just veggies in the wooden apple ...
Pre-Spring Sewing
March 7, 2009
The kiddos announced this morning their dolls needed "new spring dresses". I couldn't agree more. fresh and frilly: Celine's doll Isabella When I was growing up my mom actually sewed me a new spring dress most years until I started to prefer jeans (I haven't outgrown my jeans preference). Except ...
A shift in focus
March 6, 2009
This morning I was melting my homemade skin salve to add more oil. I wish for your sakes this post was a recipe for making your own herbal salve (a healing balm you apply to cuts, scraps, bruises etc...) but it's not because I'm still working out the kinks. Hence ...
Winter Bliss
March 5, 2009
It was a lot of work getting there, to that cabin in the woods. But it was so, so worth it. To have the time and space away from ordinary life, in the woods.
the word for March
March 4, 2009
The creative-artsy blogs I visit, Shutter Sisters being one and a whole lot of others (see NIMBY for the blogs I regularly read), are choosing words for each month throughout the year and writing about or taking photos along that theme. I generally don't like to box myself in or ...
If you're happy and you know it
March 4, 2009
March is not my happy month, come back and visit in September - ah, now those are happy days. But for some reason when I had Laurent take these photos of me I truly felt happy. Maybe it was the warm afternoon sun. Or perhaps my oh-so-comfy but hilarious purple, ...
String Games
March 2, 2009
My self imposed life-is-too-crazy-to-blog break is over. Yipee! I love writing and posting photos of all the fun in my back yard, or as these days would have it, fun in my living room. One of the fun activities the kids stumbled upon last week while I was cooking, cleaning, ...
