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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Waldorf Doll

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My daughter was in one of the local Waldorf parent-child classes this spring.  The program focussed on a slow separation process between p...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Weaving of a Dream, Marilee Heyer

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For this post I decided to review one of my favorite NOT new picture books. I have quite a few. When I looked some of the books up on Amazon...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

What Makes Us Happy?

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I just came across this wonderful article on a study done by Dr. George Valliant. He has been following the lives of a group of men for deca...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Paper Flowers

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Sorry for the hiatus. It’s been a busy two weeks. But I am back and it’s time to talk about Flower Girl. Where I grew up in Belgium, childre...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

The Story Blanket

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I picked up a picture book at our local independent bookstore. The Story Blanket , written by Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz, illustrat...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Knit Bella & Bean Hat

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I know, it's been a while... What can I say. I have been knitting. After being asked a few times if the Bella & Bean hats were avai...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Lovely Mayfest

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In between rain showers, in a nearby park, we celebrated the coming of spring, with people from my daughter's school. Everybody brought ...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Breakfast with Seven Imps

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Rebecca Kay Dotlich and I just enjoyed a fabulous cyber breakfast with Julie, over at Seven Imps . What a fun experience we had. Come see a...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Madame Pamplemousse

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One of my very favorite writers is Roald Dahl , in particular his books for children. Even though I reread his books again and again with gr...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Our First Week-End in the Country

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We just went back to our fixer upper in the country after a five month hiatus. All in all it wasn't bad. No major plumbing explosions, n...
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Aileen Leijten
Los Angeles, California
Spinner or Stories * Painter of Plots * Fabricator of Figurines
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