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I am Tricia. Momma of nine, homeschooler, artist, foodie and maker of all kinds of things. It's a pleasure to share here our family homesteading adventures, the things we make, and what inspires our days. Read more about my family and work here. Thanks for visiting!

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A newborn hat for a welcoming party

By on August 8, 2012 in Knits and Crochet

Five weeks to go!  I can hardly believe it though I can certainly feel it.  I have slowed down so much this week.  Every activity is followed by a rest on the couch or rocking chair and I am getting out of bed later and later everyday.  I feel big and heavy and slow but oh so blessed to have this little one with me throughout my day.

It is kind of sneaking up on me and so I have decided to narrow down my ideas and put together a list of what I want to get done before the big day.

Since we are hoping and praying for a home birth, a hat to keep the babies head warm and a pair of mittens to keep that beautiful new face scratch free was first on the list and I can now check it as done.

I am calling it my Welcome to The World hat!  I used this pattern though I changed it up just a bit by making the mittens a little longer in the hand part and shorter in the ribbing and changed the hat by making the ribbing knit 2 purl 2 instead of knit 4 purl 4.  I also learned the turkish cast on which I thought would be so hard.

The rest of my list for right now is:
a quilt for the crib
some sack style pajamas from soft vintage tshirts
newborn sized prefolds
a paper cut art for over the crib
bunting to hang in the window over the crib
a couple more soakers from wool sweaters
finish the Christening gown that I made for JP while I was pregnant with him to which I am making alterations
a gauzey swaddling blanket
a few flannel blankets

I feel like I need everyday that I can get so here is hoping that this baby stays put until they are supposed to be born : )

I am joining my friend Nicole at Frontier Dreams again this week as well as Small Things for the Yarn Along.

Hope to see you tomorrow for the Stash Bash linkup right here with a knitted newborn project and a little something to organize the nursery too!

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These days…My weekly journal

By on August 6, 2012 in Weekly Journal
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This week :

wedding invitations were addressed, stamped and sent out,  the stamps were ordered from Stamps.com with Alexandra and Lewis’ picture on them

had a sudden influx of eggs from the chicken, very rare in summer since they usually slow down production

zested a huge pile of lemons to make the limoncello for Christmas.  It has to ferment for about 90 days so if we don’t do it now, we will not have any yummy homemade liquer for the holidays

started to go through the kids artwork and frame my favorite pieces for the upstairs hallway wall

put the buffet/side board in the foyer up for sale.  Hated to see it go but we have too much furniture and we have been moving away from the formal look for a few years.  The dining room is next since we have again outgrown our dining room table.  It will be replaced with a more rustic farm table and long shelves on one of the walls to hold my pyrex collection and serving pieces

finished baby beans hat, will share it on Wednesday

enjoyed many delicious meals made by my budding chef Nick.  This is the only one I took a picture of but the flavor was restaurant quality.  Out of nowhere he started wanting to cook and everything he has made has been absolutely amazing

our well pump broke and we are still at this moment without water.  Luckily we were able to catch some water as the water supply dwindled to nothing.  We set aside enough water for drinking, flushing toilets and brushing teeth.  The boys however, did have to bucket brigade more water this morning down from the pond in order to flush the morning toilets.  We are hoping the fix will not be too expensive.

last night it started to rain so I sent the smaller, slightly dirtier kids out with a bar of Dr Bronners to bathe in the rain.  As you see this turned into a game of chase each other with the soap but it made this inconvenience much more fun for them.

we got to use our great big enamelware water jug.  It is all the water we have for use other than drinking.  It has been interesting to see the kids figure out how to use less water.  Hoping for a quick fix because the laundry is growing.

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