• Blog

    Christmas cactus?


    Apparently this plant doesn’t know what time of the year it is. This is the first blossom, of many, that has fully opened.

    It gave me a good opportunity to practice some more macro shots with my camera. I love macro photography!

    This plant was given by my kids school library staff last year for volunteering. Pretty simple job that gave my legs a good workout with all the squats putting the books back on the low shelves. 🙂

  • Blog - Kitchen

    Natural Dyes


    Just like last year, I’m using a natural dye process to color our eggs. I used this tutorial for the process.

    The purple/blue eggs were made with red cabbage.

    The reddish eggs were onion skins..both yellow and red gathered from the bottom of my onion drawer. Based on the tutorial, I expected I’d get a greenish yellow color.

    I also threw a few scraps of muslin in the dye bath. The orange is really puzzling to me. One side is more orange than the other but the blue pieces are the same color on both sides. You can also see where I dripped a little blue dye on the orange. Opps!

    Note to self and others: USE GLOVES!! My fingers are horribly stained.

  • Blog

    Mother Nature is amazing!


    I looked out the patio door this morning and saw this beautiful ripple pattern in the new snow. So I geared back up to traipse around the house to take photos before the kids go running through it.

    Of course I had to play around with the photo too. What do you think?