tonight is the festival of saint martin. a beautiful festival of light. we will be taking our lantern walk and sharing pictures tomorrow! yo...

today is the day that the winter issue of living crafts magazine should be out in stores. i haven't received my issue yet, but i'll...

commenter #30 , martha ! congratulations on winning this week's giveaway, martha !  please email me with your mailing address and i'...

this week's ostheimer giveaway is the standing blue knight ! to enter this week's drawing, please leave a comment in this post some...

around our home... a favorite little handcarved wooden gnome from zooloonaturals lighting a candle in  gratitude keeping my knitting bags cl...

i just happened to come across these two older photos today that i had taken of our ostheimer nativity shelter, one day after maya had been ...

change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. we are the ones we've been waiting for. we are the change that...

once you choose hope, anything is possible . ~ christopher reeve yours in hope today, shelley

commenter #57 , blue yonder ! congratulations on winning this week's giveaway, blue yonder ! please email me with your mailing address a...

i wanted to start this week's  ostheimer giveaway  opportunity on friday (rather than saturday) to give everyone a chance to join in. i ...

deepak chopra and david simon led their second 'global peace meditation' yesterday. a one-hour worldwide mediation for peace, harmon...

on a recent visit to the pumpkin patch, maya found this very interesting gourd. my my, nature is truly amazing...is she not? what a joyous a...

commenter #7 , stephanie !   congratulations on winning this first week's giveaway, stephanie ! please email me with your mailing addres...

when i began my ostheimer collecting years ago, some of the first pieces i bought were the knights and the knight's horses. my older gir...

here are some framed prints that hang in maya's room. they are by ruth elsasser, my favorite waldorf-inspired german artist... yours in ...

my sweet maya meadow, what a joy it is to be your mama. you are a bright light, a boundless spirit of pure love and abundance. i love spendi...

elf and rooster gnome, mouse and felted mushrooms (mushrooms made by haddy2dogs )

here are a couple of favorites that hang on our bedroom wall... sun musicbox woodland princess print in wooden frame yours in seeing the bea...

pentatonic music and songs (based on the pentatonic scale which has five notes, instead of the usual seven) are used in waldorf schools up u...