Happy solstice & holiday season to you all! See you in 2019.
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Handmade Holiday Sale at Little City Farm
Thanks to all who came out to our 10th annual Handmade Holiday Sale last weekend. What a great crowd, sunny snowy weather, amazing vendors with lovely handmade wares. So much goodness, from herbal soaps, to beeswax candles, organic gingerbread and cupcakes, hand-dyed yarns, beautiful pottery, intricate macrame decor, healing teas, hand-tooled wooden wallets, wood-turned spoons & honey dippers, local authored children's books, luscious vegan fudge, cozy woolen clothing...plus kids area with pinecone birdseed feeders and tiny twig gnomes...
Happy solstice & holiday season to you all! See you in 2019.
Happy solstice & holiday season to you all! See you in 2019.
Sunday, December 09, 2018
Week 12 - Final week of Thinking Tree Art & Nature Program
Week 12 - Thinking Tree Art & Nature Program
Weather: cold with some snow on the ground, and beautiful sunshine & frost
Lunch made today: Homemade pizzas in the outdoor wood-fired cob oven
Art lessons today:
Weather: cold with some snow on the ground, and beautiful sunshine & frost
Lunch made today: Homemade pizzas in the outdoor wood-fired cob oven
Art lessons today:
- final charcoal sketching activity
- folding paper window stars with origami paper
- botanical lantern making with our dried leaves/flowers (from plant presses we made
- outdoor cooperative games
- opening our Thinking Tree "mailbox" filled with wonderful letters and drawings
- personalized veggie pizzas for lunch
- final good-byes, it's been a great 12 weeks together
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Week 11 - Thinking Tree Art & Nature Program
Week 11 - Thinking Tree Art & Nature Program
Weather: cold with some snow on the ground, and a few glimpses of sunshine
Soup made today: Carrot Coconut Curry (a group favourite!)
Art lessons today:
Weather: cold with some snow on the ground, and a few glimpses of sunshine
Soup made today: Carrot Coconut Curry (a group favourite!)
Art lessons today:
- sketching self-portraits using mirrors
- salt art prints
- Waldorf-inspired wintery candle drawings
- beeswax candle-dipping done outdoors around a big table
- doll making continued
- needle-felting continued
- letter-writing for our group "mailbox", on handmade paper
- warming up with cooperative and running games in the community garden
- learning a few new songs during our opening and closing circles
- singing in time to the beeswax candle-dipping to keep our rhythm going!
- shared mint tea by the fire