On our way home from Laurel Hedge Oma, Opa, Naiya and I stopped by the Swan Island Dahlia Farm for their Annual Dahlia Festival.  This fami...

Yesterday we made it to the Art in the Garden event at Laurel Hedge in Estacada.  We've been to this designer garden/boutique nursery...

   Every now and again I come across a place to visit or a product or a store that I think is worth sharing.  Sometimes I'm surprised t...

As if making cookies instead of bread for baking day weren't fun enough, today we did several trays of snickerdoodles as tiny cookie nib...

Saturday is Painting Day.    We sometimes paint with tempura but Saturday Painting Day is most often an adventure in wet-on-wet watercolor. ...

Friday is Craft Day.    Each of our weekly afternoon activities are pretty specific and we do essentially the same kind of thing each time ...

 Thursday in our home is Drawing Day.    As I've mentioned before, I have never "taught" Naiya how to draw.  I generally stay ...