It’s time for us to head out for our main vacation of the year. 10 days of camping in the Canadian Shield in a park I’ve never been to in an area of the province I’ve never been to. So exciting! This will get me one step closer to checking off my goal of visiting [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Northeast
Posted in adventure, travel on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A Quote and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, quotes on June 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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“Once you’re gone, your mark is what you’ve done, but some of that is how you’ve done it.” Dathan Ritzenhein
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In what facets of your life do you insist on a particular method; where does form become beauty, industriousness, and purpose?
Exploring Yellows
Posted in Project Spectrum, home on June 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yellow is such a changeable colour. Is it greenish, cool, and marking a feeling of growth beginning? Deep, rich, and settled? There is a profusion of yellow in the flower world, but much less of it in the world we humans have constructed. We seem to prefer to keep yellow as [...]
Archeology Field Trip
Posted in adventure, field trips, homeschooling on June 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Last Friday we were lucky enough to join the archeology department for a morning.
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Wouldn’t you camp here? I would. Gentle curve of the river, the north bank is higher and provides shelter, good sweet land.
The day was overcast, luckily, but there were tarps covering it all as well, and flags and fencing to [...]
Yarn Party
Posted in knitting on June 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
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Can’t talk. My needles arrived.
Oh, and some yarn that my sister and I ordered came, too. It’s making it hard to find my needles. But I forgive it.
Random Acts of Colour
Posted in Project Spectrum, adventure, art, handmade on June 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
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Project Spectrum postcard (from a past Swap-bot swap) and some teeny books go out into the world to surprise people. Inspired by the Kind Over Matter site and their lovely card drops.
Some delivered while I was jogging. Yes, I am the mad woman you saw stopping to smell every lilac bush in the city [...]
A Quote and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, Project Spectrum, quotes on June 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
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“Before we can make things that are pleasant to see, we must find pleasure in seeing the things that are offered to our sight.”
Eva Zeisel
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What can you delight in seeing this very moment?
Full and Fabulous
Posted in adventure, handmade, travel on June 22, 2009 | 12 Comments »
We’ve had an impossibly full weekend, the kind that is nearly unblogable. The highlights, then.
*Hot sunny days and the year-end soccer tournament. Seeing our kids so brave and bold, such good leaders on their teams.
*Father’s Day was celebrated on Saturday. The promise of dazzling tulips ordered for him now but delivered only in [...]
June’s Blue
Posted in handmade, knitting on June 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
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The lunch bag of surprise yarn turned out to be a project I was fondly remembering and hoping would emerge soon from the box of surprise to which it had been consigned.
Misti Alpaca worsted becomes Helleborus.
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The pattern includes the following: Work rows 1–2, then repeat rows 3–10 until you drop dead. This is a boring [...]
A Quote and a Question
Posted in A Quote and a Question, quotes on June 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
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Who do you know that shines from an inner strength?
