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My latest food crush grows in ditches and tastes like summer. I always hated asparagus growing up, but have come to really like it as an adult. In my early...
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Mariette Robbes is a volunteer with the International Alliance of Independent Publishers, following an internship with the organisation in 2011. She holds...
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The time of year for spring cleaning is at hand. Break out the mops, dustpans, and garbage bags because it is time to clean and de-clutter. I always feel ...
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There are many different "types" of homeschoolers these days. We are not the stereotype that we used to be, way back in the day, yet every homeschool famil...
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"What happens when a small group of saints gathers in a clapboard community church somewhere out in the sticks? At their call to worship, they ascend to t...
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When I got the Waterproof Bible from Bardin & Marsee Publishing in the mail, I thought how interesting. At first, I thought it was a kind of a strange i...
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Creating your own curriculum doesn’t mean working out all the lessons. Sometimes we think that because we are working out our children’s curriculum that we...
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Well another weekend has just about finished. Pretty soon, it will be time to get the children to do their evening chores and prepare for school tomorrow. ...
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I've been a bit absent from blog land for the past couple of months, just visiting from time to time as my time and moods allow:) I've been through some se...
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In order to add you to the private readership I need an email address. Those who wish to continue reading would you please send an email through to ganeida...
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*I* love blogger but it has issues. It does not want to send me my emails. It does not want to notify me when your blogs are updated. It spits comments ...
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[image: water buffalo] A few little thumbnail studies and fun with Eowyn and Leilani. Water buffaloes feature in the dream of one of the characters in 'I...
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to go to my daughter’s school and meet her teachers for parent-teacher conferences. It was a super-huge, proud-momma ev...
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The week didn’t really start in the most positive manner! Monday morning work went well and we headed off to homeschool group where we had a speaker comi...
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Wow! It's been a year since I last logged on here and posted a blog message. Can't believe how fast the time has flown. For those that may take the time to...
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Purchasing car insurance is very important for people who have car. They should buy car insurance if they want to save their money on some unexpe...
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[image: oldhome] The post The Homestead appeared first on Say cheese....
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I’m sitting at our kitchen table as I write this. The sun is shining through the slats of the blinds. I can look through and see our dog fossicking about i...
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I will make this blog private on Monday next week. If you would like to follow me on His Pen on My Heart, you will need to do so soon. Thanks for your lo...
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Mum was telling us yesterday of an incident that she recalls when Don first married Margaret & they were renting a house opposite from her, they used to le...
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I have a brand new blog with a very long first post, come check it out :-) http://caz1975-thejourneyofus.blogspot.com/
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Unlike the rest of the country, the weather in Seattle has been cool for several weeks now. In fact, our "Summer" (and I use that term very loosely) never ...
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hello thi is a test. the blockquote rubbish goes here. o la la la! this is so awesome. <3
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If you're seeing this at springvaleacademy.blogspot.com, it's time to head back over to www.anordinarymom.com ! It looks a bit different, ok a lot differen...
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Hi,Haven't posted for a while!Been busy reorganising curriculum and touring Disneyland!We took the girls down from Sunday to Thursday last week. The boys sta...
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I'll be up front and say that I was bullied in school. I had someone kick the back of my knee (to make me stumble and fall) as I was walking down a set of ...
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Detective K: Secret Of Virtuous Widow; a movie rather than a series. Features Kim Myung-Min (King of Dramas, Bad Family) as Detective K, a brilliant though...
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I'm extra-busy this week, so I thought I'd rerun an old post, for fun. This originally appeared on 11/16/2010. ------------------------------ *It is He w...
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We had the best time. It was a little celebration for a sweet high school grad we know. Izzy loved the water, but was afraid of the sand, so she never...
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* Sir Anthony and Lady Edith *are not the only cross-generational couple to grace tv or cinema screens! source: google I've been writing a novel latel...
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We love using these bird notebooking pages for our nature journal. These are two from Kathryn’s notebook last summer. We have one in-process on robins sinc...
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This week marks the end of eighth grade, the end of middle school for my only child. That season of life is over, and I have only four more years of home e...
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This week for the blog post I would like for everyone to read a short portion of an article from the 1915 Parents’ Review, “Impressions of Conference work ...
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If I’ve learned something since the last time I posted it’s that I can’t teach a class, volunteer, hold down a job, and write a blog. If I’ve learned somet...
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This spring I am learning to treasure a certain Charlotte Mason phrase more deeply than ever. Charlotte talked about recognizing “the familiar face of a ...
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In this competitive world we live in, our kids try out and audition for things all the time, hoping to be the best. Hoping to make the team. We encourage t...
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Hello friends! See the above little buttons of deliciousness? So much yumminess in such a little, er.. button. Why are they called Chocolate Peanut Butter ...
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Congratulations to Tiffany, the winner of last week's Friday Giveaway. Tiffany, if you'll send me your email address, I'll send you a digital giftcard to ...
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It is in these last days of autumn when our light becomes scarce that those of us in the winterland take every chance we can of escaping our cozy caves. T...
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Each week I post a sampling from my corner of the Twittersphere, @NWBingham.
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I am currently working on Cats & Mice by Jade Starmore I am using Jamiesons Spindrift in colours of my own choosing. This is a lovely knit, much easier tha...
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Ethan has a phone in his hand, and is talking Matty language to Matty who is on his regularly held hand phone. So funny. Wish I had a video camera with...
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*Mame gohan* (beans and rice) with English sweet peas, organic radish, *negi * (green onions) and *katsuo bushi* (bonito flakes). *INGREDIENTS* *Serves 2*...
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Two quick bits of news: - *monbento* is releasing a mobile app soon, and to commemorate they are giving away an iPad and 100 bento boxes.. No purc...
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Toshihisa Fudezuka‘s stunning exhibition at Yoseido Gallery is untitled, but I would venture to give it one of my own –”Matters of the Heart.” Over the las...
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Rick Daddario is amazing. If you have not visited his site, please do. He writes, he creates, he inspires. Best of all, he encourages. That encourageme...
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Photos this Post by Kenji Miura Shiokara, or more precisely ika no shiokara, is most often described as “fermented squid guts.” No surprise that I mistakenly...
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it turns out, in 2012 i had even less time to blog. i started a new full time job, and am now in the final stages of dissertation writing. craft project ...
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Blog引越しました。 pdmd Blog + Photography ( http://pdmd.bglb.jp/ ) 写真公開に特化させてます。しばらく写真から遠ざかっていましたがまた復活しようかと。といっても新たに撮った写真はまだないので過去写真を中心に更新しています。過去に撮った写真なので一部ここ...
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First, please let me apologize for the long absence. As regular readers are aware, Deep Kyoto has been hacked repeatedly over the last three months and the...
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Un livre japonais Livres du Japon Japonica A Japanese Book Books from Japan Nippon Nihon 日本の本 日本からの本 Libraire Bookseller Bookshop Bookstore Minute antiquari...
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Esther has already raved about Sylvanian Families, but I thought it was worth mentioning the Sylvanian Families Campervan. I gave it to Ivy for her birthda...
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Isn't this knitted bunting completely, absolutely amazingly lovely? The photo was taken at the 2011 knit and stitch show at Alexandra Palace and was part of ...
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The Sydney apartment of Cassandra Karinsky of Kulchi. Artwork on wall – ‘The Prayer’ by Chicago-based artist Lora Fosberg, 1995 – a friend of Cassie’s. F...
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“Aren’t you going to write another book?” Then under that severe gaze of his that demanded the full truth, it just burst out of me. “I? No. Let me tell y...
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If you're keeping chickens in the backyard, often you'll reach a point when you have too many eggs. Luckily, eggs are always easy to give away but they're ...
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Even though I’m well past my elementary school days, the advent of summer’s long, humid days always signals a time of boundless freedom and endless possibi...
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* T H A N K Y O U * to every single person who ordered Maggie or her clothes or her supplies in the last few days!!! Thank you very, very much! The sale was ...
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By Gabrielle. Meg Zaletel and her husband Zach were this close to not being able to participate in a Living With Kids tour: they didn’t want kids! Luckily ...
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April 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 I've been thinking about just how much happens in the garden in a relatively short period of time. How much change takes place ov...
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Andrew Butterfield In the summer of 1494, soon after his engagement, Albrecht Dürer made a startlingly intimate drawing of his fiancée Agnes Frey. One mig...
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Hungarian illustrator Eszter Schalle makes charming digital illustrations... [image: eszter schalle 4][image: eszter schalle 3][image: eszter schalle 2][imag...
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[punts, a couple of weeks ago in Cambridge] This blog has proved to be a useful distraction and source of consolation in recent weeks and months when terribl...
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Did you know you can eat radish greens? I just got some kale and radishes at the farmers market today. For dinner I will saute kale and the radish greens wit...
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In May, the Association of American Publishers celebrates Get Caught Reading Month—publicity for the event includes posters of famous people each absorbe...
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Jeepers. I spent the weekend in Sydney with a whole bunch of great bloggers... and I am a bit tired today! It's okay. I'm tired in a really good way. I met...
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With the summer almost here and the end of homework just around the corner, I'll be able to get to the blog more often. That said, I've been very generous ...
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today was cleaning day. cleaning day is always a little dull and always seems to roll around way too quickly for my liking. i do not have a specific day of...
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I've been waiting all week to feel happier. To feel reconciled to recent events, to create a fragile peace and you know what? I suck at it. I'm as good at...
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I'm really into this look at the moment........ I really adore the postage stamp, postcard look, its beautiful but I wanted to make something fresh..th...
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this is to me one reminder I am a diamond I´m able to follow my dreams to listen to my heart bought in Stockholm when days were a bit tough a reminder of w...
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Hello, dears - I am still here... sort of, anyway. I am now deep in moving hell. Lots of cardboard boxes. I move to Washington, DC in less than a month. T...
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Until today, the weather has been a string of beautiful warm, sunny days. The grass is growing non-stop and requires mowing every three da...
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With winter creeping up, a tad too fast... Out came the chunky wool... This is a new skirt pattern that I have finished... It's so comfy... And a lit...
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[image: my camelia] [image: in the garden] As the seasons have changed so has my small garden of pots. The basil and chilies have come out and the spinac...
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Third time lucky! [image: Cover page of Tintin in Tibet] Tintin in Tibet After two unsuccessful attempts to award a free Tintin book in my giveaway, the l...
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If you are in Melbourne this weekend, there's a book launch not to be missed. Friend and colleague, Ben Sanders, is launching his first picture book!
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Hello I'm sorry I've been away for so long. Almost a year. So much has happened. There's been a lot of sadness and pain, as the marriage between Hugo and I h...
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Wartime farm - Manor Farm, our half term day out! xxxx Chair love xxxx OoOh I want to make that cushion!!! ...
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The new Book By Its Cover site is in development (thanks to Jenny) and I’ll start posting updates as we get closer to the launch. In the meantime, I want t...
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Come on over to our new home: theredthreadblog.com. If you are a subscriber to this blog’s feed you should be automatically redirected to the new domai...
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Next month the new picture book by Anna Walker will be released and we are so looking forward to it. Anna just released this trailer for Peggy this morning...
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We have been keeping a keen eye on the sun... without looking right at it of course. Winter Solstice is coming and we have been watching the path of the sun ...
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Kid’s literature and playrooms have long included castles and kingdoms, kings and queens, knights and dragons. In my 1970s toy box Fisher Price reigned sup...
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Parfois, un nuage dans le ciel ressemble à une brouette, l'ombre d'un chat à un loup-garou et la tête de votre collègue à un cactus. Quand Sandrine Boulet ...
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My [MONA x +] scarf. Crocheted as we drove to Hobart for opening of [MONA x +] a couple of weekends ago. No pattern - it just grew, and found a life of it's ...
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We're an Australian homeschooling family. We're passionate about the educator Charlotte Mason, the Ambleside Online curriculum, MEP maths, the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Australia, Japanese aesthetics, French language, Asian travel, children's literature, our garden, and living a peaceful life in the country.
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5 comments:
Merry Christmas, Jeanne! xo
And to you too! Merry Christmas to Jemimah from Dollygirl.
Merry Christmas ... and oh my that trifle looks good!
Merry Christmas! And yes, that trifle DOES look good! :)
The desert thing in the middle looks great!!
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