I love this feather collection box. Made by L’Atelier d’exercices. It would be easy to use an old cigar box to make something like this....hmmm.
And these cutie pies from Ferse Verse should be on everyones list.
I would wear them on my jacket or sweater all week long.
I saw these wooden pins bird pins.Love the colors. Made by Le Petit Pig.
We had 2 rounds of egg dyeing this weekend, one for the barn's easter egg hunt and one for the family.I was assigned the last minute easter egg dyeing for the barn.
Couldn't wait.
I set up my station in my favorite window that gets the most saturated eastern light in the morning.
The light, the colors, the texture,all reminded me how fun it is to create something,anything,without a road map,or an audience in mind. I just loved the sweet frenzy of making 24 eggs as quickly and as beautifully as I could. I had nothing in the world in mind but those white eggs and the tranformation of colors and textures with the dyes.
Nothing in mind but the moment and look what one gets. Maybe those Zen guys know something.
Felt bird project from Homemade Fun
This spring we've been birding on the weekends. Our birding consists of taking a walk in the woods or the park and spotting as many kinds of birds as we can. Because the trees are bare we can find the birds and observe their behavior quite easily.
Hawks, falcons, bluejays, cardinals, warblers, sparrows,and Robin redbreast (American Robin) are a few of the birds we have seen. I have been particularly lucky to have had several encounters with a few urban hawks. Show offs. Really, they are.
Another thing I noticed (obvious but gradual) is that the more I look for birds, the more I hear their various songs.
This site from Cornell University is one of the best websites I have found concerning birds. Listening to the bird songs here is very helpful to my beginner ear. Check it out with your kids. Our cat gets a little nutty over the bird calls we play in the house.Very amusing!
Here's something pretty I saw this weekend.
I'd like to see my easter eggs with these colors this year.
I found this color chart floating around from 2006. I think it a Martha Stewart original.
One thing I like about Easter is the egg dyeing. Easter bunny or not, it's a spring ritual and a perfect way to get the family creative juices sparked.
Here's another of my favorite easter projects from Quince and Quire. Really very cute and on my to-do list.
Lastly, this old photo of my brothers and I on Easter Sunday. I think my brothers have such cool hair cuts.
How about you? Are you getting geared up for Easter? My friend Marie-Helene asked me what I'm making for Easter dinner. More on that another time. We had lots of ideas.
Apartment Therapy included me in their round up of easter egg decorating.
It's always great when they link to my blog. Here's a link to my natural egg dyeing.
Popular easter posts from My Little Hen
Egg Carton Easter Baskets (guest post on Simple Kids)
Preparing hand sewing projects from Homemade Fun for my kids classes at Purl Soho. Tweet and facebook please, through Purl's website. The Purl folks are a very special group of crafters. Try their reasonably priced classes.
So, I'm working out the details of this little project. I'm thinking of putting a strip of masking tape along the edge to help the kids follow the line for stitching. With this cream colored felt a pencil line won't work. Any suggestions?
We also made these Homemade Fun popovers for breakfast. I love seeing towel on the line. Summer is coming along!!
Isn't this a beauty?
Of course, loving the lilacs...and this sweet embroidery HouseWren Studios.
I've beenbreaking into some new projects; sewing, gardening, just general all around like what I'm doing spring stuff. So far so good.
My family gave me an iphone for mother's day as a way to hip up my act. My first series of iphone images will be of NYC bikes. LOVE that wine crate screwed onto the back of the bike.
We've been busy getting the garden ready. Someone gave me 12 tomato seedlings and I've repotted them in tin cans to give them a little more time to mature. I'll plant them in the ground this weekend and hopefully they will grow quickly so we can have early August tomatoes.
As I tackled the garden this year, all the advice and basic backyard garden knowledge that I learned from adults when I was a kid was put into action. Skills like how deep to dig a hole for a flower or a tomato plant, how to fill the hole with water before putting the loose rooted plant into the soil, adding companion flowers like marigold and herbs like mint to the garden as a natural pesticide; they all were learned in the company of an experienced gardener. Like so many people, that's how I learned the basic secrets of backyard gardening.
The Red Fox family, which I reported about a few weeks ago had a lovely Mother's Day. It was an awesome event to watch them play for hours within eyesight.This week they seemed to have all disappeared and moved their home into the thicker protection of the woods. We miss looking out the window to see their red color running back and forth near the lower meadow. A grumpy looking woodchuck popped into the fox hole den as I walked by and rabbits are appearing on the lawn now that the Red Fox family has moved on. Life in the meadow has returned to its regular routine. Even the birds seem a little happier with the fox family gone.
Thanks, as always, for stopping by. Enjoy the upcoming holiday weekend!
I met some Earth Day sprites who charm, charm, charmed me. Wouldn't these make great Halloween costumes?
More belated Earth Day news to come but really- it is spring and every day is Earth Day.
