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Yarn-along

Ok, I will admit right up front that my main reason for joining the Yarn-along is because I want to enter this wonderful yarn giveaway! But I do love reading and I do love knitting, so it seems natural that I would join in on the fun.

I am currently knitting myself (yes, myself!) a pair of fingerless gloves from the pattern Fetching. I am done with the left glove and halfway done with the right. I just started reading this book last night, and would have loved to have known about it when I first became a mom. It's so full of wise words.

What are you reading and/or knitting?

Pumpkin Jack, etc.

We took a second trip out to Hickory Nut Gap Farm, and it was even better than our first visit. This time we bought our pumpkins! We had found a set of carving tools along with some nifty jack-o-lantern images at Goodwill, so we were ready to go. Here is our first attempt of the season.

We all loved our cute little owl, but he only lasted about two days. I accidentally detached one of his ears from the background, so his body started tilting backwards. And then he molded, quickly. And that brings me to the next part of this post: a great Autumn book called Pumpkin Jack.

This wonderful book is about a little boy who has carved a pumpkin and named him Jack. Jack is magical to the little boy, but the magic ends too soon when Jack starts to mold. The little boy puts Jack in the garden, the seasons pass, a pumpkin plant starts to grow, the boy takes care of the plant and then there are many pumpkins. I love everything about the book. I love that the boy takes care of the plant, that he learns about the cycles of life, and that he shares the pumpkins with all of his friends. This will be a classic in our home.

I will try to check in more often... I've been busy painting the dining room!!

A leaf collecting book

Recently, I was browsing information on-line about Waldorf education and stumbled upon the idea of making a leaf collecting book. I have been very excited about this project, and here it finally is (what could have been a one-day project took me about two weeks)!! The kids did their first leaf rubbings today with leaves from our back yard. I am looking forward to a hike on the Blue Ridge Parkway with this book in our backpack. I just did a post about this 20 minutes ago and lost it. I am not rewriting everything... just adding the photos. Feel free to ask if you have any questions about how we made the book.

One thing I adore about Esme' is her ability to make a toy out of anything (just like Daddy and his brothers when they were young)! While I cut the paper for our book, she used the scraps to make this catfish!!

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