A Long and Winding Road

A Long and Winding Road

Running on a long and winding road through the north woods, one that I’ve run many times over the past half of my life, brings great exhale following a pivotal life experience. I ran like I was headed for the finish line after a long and challenging race, but also like I was headed for […]

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Summer Reading? It’s in the bag.

Summer Reading? It’s in the bag.

We hit up the library last week, an activity that has become much more highly anticipated since Little Man has been reading on his own. I love the library for a few reasons. One being that there is a book for everything – and everyone. For an eclectic gal, like myself, that is very satisfying. […]

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Grooming Kind and Creative MacGyvers : Homemade Fun

Grooming Kind and Creative MacGyvers : Homemade Fun

Worm houses, digging for creatures, getting dirty, touching stuff that might make us itch, climbing to that point in which we feel a quiver in our gut (and surely set one in mama’s). All are part of the recipe of my favorite memories from childhood. Kids wrestled a little (ok, a lot) and explored freely […]

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Nature Hike – Journey Journal

Nature Hike – Journey Journal

Inspiration can come from many places, anywhere really, and it builds. I love how many twists and turns an idea can take from the seed first planted in your mind. Projects rarely turn out as I originally intended…personality and perspective of the artists involved, adds to the flavor. Sunny spring/summer days have been hard to come […]

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Nature Necklaces – terrain to treasure

Nature Necklaces – terrain to treasure

She came to me holding a round rock with a teeny tiny hole in it. We can make a necklace, Mama! We’ve painted rocks, we’ve made friends out of rocks, we balance stacks of rounded rocks in our gardens, and we collect the heart shaped rocks that have gained volume and presence all around our […]

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Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones

*More to the babes…reflecting this week on the power of words. ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.’ I’m not sure who wrote that, but that last part is all wrong. While I understand that the phrase is meant to be delivered in the tone of a convincing declaration, […]

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Woodland Crowns

Woodland Crowns

She’s a princess: dreamy, gracious, creative, kindhearted, resilient, strong, brave, funny, independent, free-spirited, and silly. Her imagination runs wild. She can be transported anywhere on this great big beautiful planet or beyond the stars above, in a heartbeat. Creativity is in her veins and I can only imagine the lens through which she views life. […]

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