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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Maximizing Gain from Book Weeding
Living on a tight budget really ratchets up a particular quality of mine, one that has to do with being obsessed with optimization. Example: I want to get rid of a bunch of books. Is it best to a) drop … Continue reading
Posted in books, Jeannie's Stamp of Approval, modernday hippiness
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Story-telling Techniques
I am busy practicing and memorizing the new puppet show for the first playgroup of the new cycle (late winter). I am trying to incorporate the techniques we learned during Devana‘s storytelling workshop last month, which I’ll try and list … Continue reading
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Dolly Sweater
I’ve had a request to post the directions for the sweater I knit up for Christian’s dolly, Sterling. These are directions for knitting a standard rolled sleeve wool sweater for a 16″ doll on double-pointed needles (dpn). I used the … Continue reading
Posted in crafts
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A friend of a friend…
The provenance of this story: Just got this email from my brother. He got it from a good friend Marc. Marc went to college with Pieter who wrote the emails below from the first-hand experience of working in Haiti last … Continue reading
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Enjoying the Rain
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Posted in Christian Holden
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Late Winter Playgroup Songs (Cycle 3)
These are the songs, poems, and handplays for our weekly Waldorf in the Woods playgroup for February and March. Our puppet show will be The Porridge Pot, and will be told using table puppets. I’ve included short clips of the … Continue reading
Michele O'Marah @ Cottage Home
Everything comes together in Michele O’Marah’s show, “A Girl’s Gotta Do What a Girl’s Gotta Do.” Leaning heavily on 90’s nostalgia, three video installations recreate the stickiest un-feminist moments of Pamela Anderson Lee’s Barb Wire and hilariously O’Marah manages to … Continue reading
A Fair Trade
While I couldn’t get away with making or trading for Bella’s Christmas gifts (camera, black velour Juicy sweats, knee-high black boots, clapper lights, earrings from Tiffany’s – you get the idea – she made out like a bandit this year … Continue reading
Salmon Wellington
Bella’s made this dish four times since the end of December. It is unreasonably simple and tasty, but should be reserved for guests, not just because the puff pastry makes for a lovely presentation, but because the puff pastry is … Continue reading
