Our Winter Solstice celebration...

we light our sun candle, we sing songs and read solstice stories

We make ornaments that resemble the sun

we eat apples

we wait patiently for the longest night of the year

we make our Yule log , this year with holly and cinnamon.

and after we burn it the kids go to bed ... Gary and me while we wait until morning, I light 12 candles with the fire from our log that represent the 12 days that the log is supposed to burn continuously and we meditate and do a recap of our year... tomorrow before sunrise we will drive up to a high spot and wait for sunrise. We will greet the newborn sun with songs and dancing and the kids will receive their first present of the season.

wishing you all a beautiful celebration!

and don't forget that

Linda from Natural Suburbia is doing a GIVEAWAY!!!! run run to her blog!! her goodies are just absolutely gorgeous!! I know you are going to love them and her blog is such an inspiration to all of us, me and my children just love to peek at her blog all the time.

Loving my little time at my studio, have to take advantage of it,Gary will be traveling this week again...

what do you think

(a child and his moon)

I will have prints very soon at my etsy shop

this week we celebrate the animal kingdom, so yesterday we put our animals on our Advent Spiral...

We made window paper stars as ornaments for our tree...

We made for the very first time ballon lanterns!! ohh what a mess it was, but soooo worth it and even though they didn't turn out the way we expected them, candlelight is always candlelight beautiful and warm!!

too much excitement for the wee ones ... Good night to you all!!

Advent, second week

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YEI!!! some Work in Progress that I can show , with Gary gone all the time its hard to find the time to work, by the time I put the wee ones in bed I usually fall asleep with them... but here is some work...

To everyone that has come through Whiff of Joy I thank you from the bottom of my heart, I have seeing some of your cards and you guys are amazingly talented, I totally love what you guys do and I feel honored that you have chosen some of my designs to use in your cards!!!

So Welcome to all of you to my little world and anytime you want feel free to say hi!!

Some things we have done during Fall:

hide and seek during our hiking

pumpkin picking and hayrides

pumpkin carving

watercolor

candleholders

corn necklaces

Autumn equinox dancing

I can believe we are half way the season... so many more things still to do.

Wishing you all a happy season!!

Waldorf play around the house

1.Waldorf Finger Puppet - Moss from paintingpixie
2.Root Children and Mushroom Child from Rosemary4Remembrance
3.Gnome Set from ZooLooNaturals
4.toddler baby Rose from babyrobots

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Our daily green smoothie, this one has Romaine lettuce, Spinach, Pineapple, Cucumber and some wheat grass juice.

cherry tomatoes ready for a mid morning snack