Pixie Owl, Hedgie, and Blue Gnome

Asia is busy in the forest! Look at the new little creations she shared with me today. So sweet!

Introducing the Pixie Owl!

The front is a little pocket for treasure or teeth for the tooth fairy. The owl is a plushie. Our girls, who are both 9 and moving into a different kind of fantastic forest, where fluffy pink is becoming whimsical blue (aka a little older) both love the make-believe of this owl. In fact, the design is inspired by a sketch drawn by Asia's daughter. They both want one of their own. Which is good since Asia is making kits!

Then, look what wandered into the meadow of my front yard.

A hedgehog! We have both been puzzling about a hedgehog design for awhile. Asia's is perfect!

He is so cute! We all love to fluff his little spines and smooth him down again. I have a class story that I use with a porcupine about feelings and when we get frustrated, we can be prickly. He will be perfect with that story. She is designing a kit for him, too. She's working on directions right now. I have a feeling we will be sewing more than one in our house.

I made something new for the forest, too. My little blue gnome.

 

My daughter greeted him with, "Can we keep him? I can keep him, right, Mom?"

And of course I said yes. So I need to knit more blue gnomes. I have a feeling he will be popular this year. Blue and white seem to be new holiday colors :).  He's fun. Perhaps I will try a tutorial, if I have time :).  The red yarn has little sequins through it, which gives sparkle.

I will keep you posted, of course, as we finish these projects. For anyone local, Asia brought kits to Make Local Habit today. If you live farther away, you can email me or visit our Etsy shop and we are happy to send goodies your way. We want everyone to have creative holidays :)

Enjoy!

Happiness Sale

Happy Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday! We are giving you free shipping and gift wrap this weekend. Visit our Etsy shop, use the code HAPPY12 then go enjoy a mug of hot cider!

Thank you for supporting the Forest :). We will even ship international orders for free this weekend. We're cool like that :)

Grateful in the Forest

We are grateful for magic. For our Forest. For you visiting us and supporting us. We are grateful for creativity. For smiles. For surprises. We are grateful for little things. And big things. And invisible things that we cannot touch, yet know are real and important. Grateful for our children. For all the children. For the vision of a world that is safe and loved and nurtured.

We are grateful for beauty. Hugs. 

Grateful for this holiday. For a day with family and delicious food. For the winter magic just around the corner.

Look who is waiting in the wings!

Not yet, little one, not yet. Let's enjoy Thanksgiving first :)

Happy day to you and your loved ones!

Gratitude to Day 5

We wrote sweet ideas to catch up over the weekend. They were thankful for their pets, their school, and their imaginations. And their friends. Once the ideas start flowing, they cascade into a beautiful collection. I look forward to seeing the new page tomorrow. I hope you are keeping your books writing a little each day. We will get there together :)

Best wishes!

Gratitude Day 2

Students love this project! We wrote a few pages today since we won't see each other over the weekend. We also had gratitude circle today. They veered into silly-land for a little while with "I am grateful for my hair, and I am grateful for this candle." Then one boy had that wonderful moment where he said, "I am grateful for my hair and for my eyes and for myself."

Our page for the day!

Gratitude for ourselves. After all, we are, all of us, miracles :)

Wishing you a joyful day!