the rainbow oak

Working on #8.....

Well, as usual, trying to accomplish just one thing, morphs into something else much much larger. So I've wanted to learn how to felt for awhile now, and I've played a bit with the soap and water method (didn't really get, and I don't know if I liked being wet for that long). So bless the internet click on one thing and end up somewhere else, I was looking for some links on how to re-cover my sofa and ended on a link with a gorgeous felted bunny. When I thought about Easter, it never occurred to me about the little animals of springtime. Well!
Look at those little bunny bums!
I could make all of us and put them on our Easter tree or in a basket

And come on! A ninja bunny?! And at that a girl ninja bunny-with a hairbow?! Too much....love it.
And of course the complete irony is that I finally found something to fiddle with and now I have to leave to go get Max! And I can't find my felting needles! *sigh* back to the yarn store I go....

Oh my.....

I was reading my favourite blogs this morning over coffee, and came across this post from the little brown pen, and my word! I have really really really been struggling with my eating habits, trying to re-train my brain to crave wonderful, wholesome real foods as apposed to the beige boxed foods that it usually does. When I imagine living in Europe, I imagine going to the market everyday with my basket, picking whole foods that resemble something that grew in a garden and if it was made, had only ingredients that I could pronounce without effort and expired after a few days because it has no preservatives. SO when I read this blog entry that spoke of a local store in Paris that sold American food (I'm Canadian, so pretty darn close-still Walmart culture), it just confirmed everything I have been struggling with.

When I fall back on foods in a pinch, it always tends to be these pre-fab foods, that even after years of sitting ona shelf, are still edible. Tell me, what do you struggle with?

31 things

After reading this ridiculously inspiring post from this ridiculously inspiring lady, I decided that although I'm a bit late (and weirdly rebellious) about New Year's resolutions, this might be just the thing to give my year some direction and have some fun, dreaming of the lovely things to come. So without further ado, heregoes:

1. Go to New York
2. Bring Emma to the American Girl store (commercial, I know, but come on!)
3. Make a real office for myself
4. Lose 20 pounds (for my health, not some Weight Watchers stupidity)
5. Do Yoga at least 4 times a week
6.Put a birdfeeder closer to my window so I can see all variety of birds up close that visit our land juuust too far for me to see up close
7. Set up and take actual care of an aquarium
8. Felt Easter eggs
9. Recover the sofa
10. Go to see the butterflies at the Botanical Gardens with the kids
11. Finish mine and Ahmad's closet
12. Get a babysitter
13. Get Greenlight off the ground with Jen
14. Go to the scrapbook weekend with Nathalie
15. Cook and like (?) beets
16. Bring the kids to see Robert Munsch's show
17. Get braces
18. Get my own socks
19. Teach the kids how to ride bikes
20. Tremblant with Jen
21. Go to church on a non-holiday
22. Make a photo wall on the brick wall in the kitchen
23. Go away at least 3 weekends with Ahmad and babies this summer
24. Make homemade raviolis
25. Figure out a system for the laundry that finally makes sense!
26. Make lemon squares
27. Start a doll collection with Emma
28. Take out each kid once alone and give them a dream-come-true day
29. Go biking this summer as a family
30. Watch the meteor shower this August
31. Learn how to gocco print