Since being a small child, I’ve always loved when the mail comes, and especially the UPS truck. Today I received not one, but three lovely packages in the mail.
- Package number 1: Amy Butler fabric in the form of 5″ x 5″ quilt squares. They will be going toward all sorts of vague projects floating around in my head. (Oh, KAB, I really need to do more with a sketch/idea book!) These were from eBay.
- Package number 2: Hemp/Organic Cotton corduroy fabric, 3 yards in natural, though I could probably dye it if I got brave enough. (Any advice on dyeing things, Katie?) The eBay seller was so sweet, she also sent me several yards (so it looks) of hemp jersey fabric as well, also in natural. It’s going to make some great pants or shirts for the kids and I. Maybe even L1…
- Package number 3: A skein of beautiful cotton/linen yarn from my secret pal in the No Sheep for You skein exchange. I LOVE IT! I was cuddling with it for a bit while dreaming about what I might do with it. Maybe a knitted choker with beads? Some bookmarks? A skinny scarf? A headband?
I’ll add some pictures later. In the meantime, I’m about to go make strawberry pie, recipe from Wise Craft. We are cooking the last batch of just strawberry jam right now (about 40 jars). Then we’ll move on to some other berries or mixed varieties of jam. I took pictures and may do a little photo how-to page later as well.
We’ve also started our recycling/environment themed week with L3. We read about our beautiful planet and two books on composting this morning already. We have plans to make an actual structure for our compost pile later in the week. L1 scored with a business near the kids’ daycare today for some free pallets. We’ll probably pick them up tomorrow afternoon.
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Package #1 photos 
Package #2 photo
Package #3 photo.
Let me know how the composting goes. We’re considering this too…….beyond the oops we left a leaf bag out! I need a clean, convenient and non-smelly option and know virtually nothing about it other then adding worms to your compost pile can hasten the process.
Umm….for your new readers and fans……can you explain what L1 and so forth means? Cliff notes would be highly appreciated! Good karma, Shannon
OH those squares are YUMMY!! I wanna see them in person!! Maybe friday after the estate sale? And yeah, you need a sketch book. $10 at “The Art Stop” corner of Ridge & 250, you know where it is.
We’ve had a compost “heap” for over 4 years now, but are finally getting around to building a structure for it to make it more usable. If you’d like, Shannon, I have some pages scanned from one of my books about composting that I could send to you. Composting can be as easy as you want it to be. I’ll post before, during, and after pictures of our compost project.
L1 = husband, L2 = me, L3 = son, L4 = daughter. We all have first names that begin with L (wasn’t intentional until L4) so we numbered ourselves to shorten things in emails and IMs with friends, etc.
KAB: does that mean you are on for Friday?!? The sale starts at 9am, and L1 is ready to go because of the offer of Panera sweets afterward.
O.k., got it. I have a Lio and Luke so I dig the L. Hint, you can also change up the words to Ernie and Burt’s “La La” song and make up silly things to go with the kid’s names.
La la la la Lio
La la la la Lukie
La la la la listening
La la la la love in our family……and so on ad nauseum.
The L lends itself to so many songs!
Bad karma, no composting allowed in my town. I subdued my sadness by going and getting a clothesline. I’m going to check our ordinances and see how I can get around this.
Thanks for the Cliff notes, and like your blog roll. Now a fan of Soule Mama too. Good karma! S.
I am not sure how you would dye that, although I found an awesome resource called the Dharma Trading Company, they have a great catalog….http://www.dharmatrading.com I wonder how you would go about natural dyes? Dharma also has great ready to dye clothing for little ones….
Thanks for the link!