felt & glass

Pretty felt ornament tutorial from the purl bee via pinterest. — we've had a few false starts making these for the tree. We begin, and then become distracted (by trucks and getting dinner ready respectively). However, we are very enthusiastic in our intentions... I think half of crafting is just the pleasure of imagining doing something anyway.

Update: we did make a couple and ^ this lovely one is by my niece, age 6.

This is the first year we've had glass ornaments on the tree for awhile. I like my son's tree decorating style — fit as many on each branch as you can. He likes to put them in pairs according to colour.

doll apron pattern

I put up a pattern and tutorial for a doll apron with pockets up on the Windy blog today.

Little Quick began developing another series last year called Sixes & Sevens with Leah Mallen of the great documentary Coast Modern as well as our little Foggy film. We've paused in development to take care of some new Windy business. These aprons were part of the project.

The Sixes & Sevens dolls are in storage, so I used the sweater pigs as models.

flatbread & egg pizza

This is an idea taken from the kitchen counter cooking school: flatbread and egg pizza. Spread olive oil on flatbread, crack an egg on top. Add in leftovers. Top with a little cheese, salt and pepper + any herbs or spices. Bake at 350 C until the egg is set. We're going to keep some frozen flatbread in the freezer from now on for this. I think it's about 3 minutes of prep + 10–20 minutes cook time.

fluo pink in the woods

don't forget

I went to a lovely little crafting hen night last night and before I left my son, the soothsayer, pointed at me and said,

holiday stockings

Last year I made these oversize holiday stockings from the purl bee. The heels are turned as they are on a regular sock, but it is knit flat with bulky yarn. It's a very good project to try out sock knitting. I did one in the round, but I wouldn't recommend it. The seaming up the back gives the stocking extra structure and it looks better seamed.

acorn hats

Somehow or other, these have survived in a little boy's room for more than 3 months. I am not sure where the nuts went. I was thinking maybe we could save them and make some ornaments...but I feel more like appreciating them as they are. I am feeling a little craft overload — maybe too much pinterest.

baby pine trees

We got our tree last night. I don't really want to decorate it at all, it looks nice just plain in our living room. That's obviously not going to fly with the 3-year old set, though.  I have only just figured out why our trees weren't smelling like anything the last few years — we were picking small trees. I like small trees, but they don't have enough sap to smell like a tree, so we've switched back to the bigger ones.

winter melon

We had this on our table for most of the fall and it's time to go, but I will miss it. The Augs picked it.

auggie mini cards & tags

dominos

We stumbled on these at the library — they were fun! These might show up on Christmas morning...

sirop barbapapa

We walked past these drink syrups yesterday. Cotton candy flavour (Barbapapa) and cola (Barbabeau). There is also mint, grenadine,  and lemon. So appealing.

tag

I was doing some test images today for the auggie printables I made earlier this week — gift tags and mini class cards.

honeycrisp

I've always been more of a vegetable person than a fruit person. I love apples — I like drawing them, I like the way they smell (apple shampoo!) and even really like the word apple — my notebooks are full of apples. However, I have a bad habit of buying them and not eating them. I like them in things, like salad or soup or sandwiches. But I'm never been one of those people that walks around munching on one absent-mindedly (I have these people on a bit of a pedestal, along with people who drink black coffee and will eat the core of a pear along with the fruit). But a honeycrisp apple, it is a whole new world.

fleur de lis

pretty ornaments (page details) from the Fonderie du Sieur Delacolgne, 1773

soft grey cotton

I used to prefer harder wools, because they are elastic, don't split and don't pill — they're easier to work with. But they are also itchy. Besides, it's only cold enough for wool for a few weeks where we live. I've  started really liking cotton and linen yarns.

I've found two cottons that I really like. One is blue sky cotton which is fluffy and thick and the other is Rowan pima cotton, which is smooth and comes in a beautiful palette. This hat is pima cotton in millet. I used one and a half skeins.

bright snowflakes

I put up a simple tutorial for paper snowflakes up on windy today. We had a lot of fun making these yesterday, as school was cancelled and we were footloose and fancy free.

hello, winter

A plate that came home from school this week (the only plate I ever wanted to hug) and a great advent calendar (free printable from mr printable) that my son would love to park a lot of cars around. I don't think I have the time to do it, though ‚ we picked up a playmobil one yesterday as a treat.

these days

We have no school for a few days and we all have bad colds. We went on a scavenger hunt to the airport and successfully found: a control tower, a shuttle bus, a baggage cart, a big jet, a bridge. We did not find: a scissor lift or an "airplane that carries more than 1 tractor trailer". Does this exist? It was on our list. This is what it looked like on our way to the airport.

bread

I must have pinned this recipe on pinterest at least 4 times: Mark Bittman's no-knead bread originally from the New York Times and laid out in clear steps on simply so good. This takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, but it does take about 19 hours to be ready. It turns out really well.