Down back at the sugar shack!

Yes, that's where we will be for the next few weeks! Either that or trekking up the hill back and forth from home to shack.



I have a few cute drawings of my littlest artist (in residence) to share ...

Finishing up ...

I finished these two sets of custom order birds and am about to send them off.

A famous blue bird!

...well only a little famous. One of my needle felted blue birds was used as a prop in the late winter Pottery Barn kids catalog. Below is the online photo and the bird is really tiny and on the left near the bedside lamp. In the paper catalog I received today, the image is flipped (mirror image) and my bird is just a little bit more recognizable.



I guess thats a bird-sized 15-minutes of fame!

Long winter...

On Monday I took advantage of the warm sun to rinse out the maple buckets. We wont tap the trees until the weekend though. This is certainly the latest we have ever started with our maple sugaring.

Here are a few photos of my latest projects...

A whole flock!

Happy belated Valentines Day!

I hope everyone enjoyed a nice Valentines. The girls came home loaded with bags of Valentines and candy.

I finished up my little chicks for easter too!



And a few panda bean bags and a finger puppet ...

Panda - monium

Another snow day for us. The girls will probably be going to school until July with all the snow days this winter.

We used the opportunity to make our "sushi" for the birthday part. It was fun, yummy, and surprisingly not too messy. Our "sushi" isn't quite as neat but looks colorful and yummy. We used gummy worms and fish.



I spent the morning printing out little panda coloring books for the kids. Next is to make a few little panda finger puppets and maybe a few bean bag pandas for a toss game.