Showing posts with label Celebrations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celebrations. Show all posts

Saturday, 24 June 2017

Hello Summer - Notre début d'été

Our honey solstice cake decorated by Sacha/Notre gâteau au miel pour célébrer le solstice, décoré par Sacha







even on foggy and stormy days it's nice to get outside/même lorsque le temps est brumeux ou orageux, nous aimons passer du temps à l'extérieur







Summer is here and we have been spending lots of time in our garden, greenhouse and on the beach. We are taking a break from homeschool work and will start again in August, when summer camps end. Sacha, Loane and Pip will be attending our little Waldorf inspired day camp and Lucie will be spending her days at a nautical camp. Sacha's little arts and nature nursery class that he was attending once a week is also taking a break for the summer. On his last day, he brought home the sweetest, dreamiest puppet that he had been working on, it's a little elf that pops in and out of a seashell, made with silks that the children painted. We are also looking forward to spending more time at our yurt this summer, now that we have added a screened porch, we should be able to enjoy sitting outside, rain or shine and without being bothered by mosquitoes!

L'été est arrivé et nous passons beaucoup de temps dans notre jardin, notre serre et sur la plage. Nous prenons congé de nos travaux d'école à la maison et nous reprendrons nos leçons en août, lorsque les camps d'été prendront fin. Sacha, Loane et Pip fréquenteront notre petit camp de jour d'inspiration Steiner-Waldorf et Lucie passera ses journées dans un camp nautique. La petite classe pré-scolaire arts-nature que Sacha fréquente un jour par semaine fait aussi relâche pour l'été. La dernière journée, il a ramené à la maison une magnifique petite marionnette qu'il a fabriquée.  Il s'agit d'un petit lutin qui fait caché-ou-coucou dans un coquillage. Il a été fait avec des soies que les enfants avaient peintes. Nous comptons aussi passer beaucoup de temps à notre yourte, maintenant que nous avons ajouté une petite terrasse protégée par un toit et un moustiquaire. Nous pourrons être dehors, à l'abri du soleil, de la pluie et des moustiques! 


Sunday, 13 December 2015

Santa Lucia - Sainte-Lucie














Wishing you love and light, happy Santa Lucia Day!

Nous vous souhaitons une bonne journée de Sainte-Lucie, remplie d'amour et de lumière!


Monday, 11 May 2015

Saturday, 13 December 2014

Santa Lucia








Wishing you all a beautiful and bright Santa Lucia Day!

Nous souhaitons à tous, une belle et lumineuse journée de la Sainte Lucie!

Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Keep Calm Craft On: Christmas Crafting With Kids

Joining Nicole at Frontier Dreams for Keep Calm Craft On…



For this first week of Advent, I thought I would share some Christmas craft projects that my kids have been enjoying working on.

Last week, we made a batch of beeswax candles. The girls love to dip them. It has become a tradition in our home to make these every year in time to use and give for December celebrations.



Another tradition in our home is to make paper snowflakes to decorate our windows and seasonal mobile.



Lucie has been having fun sewing some Christmas trivets.


Pippa has been making some simple bookmarks to give using recycled watercolours and some finger knitting.



This year, Nicole inspired me to give Fiona Duthie's felted candles a try… The girls really enjoyed making these and Sacha enjoyed splashing around in the water and soap suds while we worked. I have also been making little gift boxes out of recycled watercolours (pattern can be found here).



Today, Loane had her homeschooling buddy over for a story and craft. We read not one but two gingerbread stories (the girls love them so much!) and then made gingerbread play dough (recipe here). Pippa and Sacha joined in the fun.






Happy crafting on!