Matching monkeys

I made another CINO top,

this time for Nu, the middle one.

 

 

She is the love machine in our family.

 

 

Her hugs are so potent,

they knock people over.

So the love often ends in tears.

 

 

But the love point gets through too.

 

These little ruffle details kill me! 

 

 

As do these moments when a couple of sisters

are getting along.

In hilarious hysterics,

speaking their own co-created language.

 

Total monkeys.

Hopefully they start together on these bars.

 

And stick together at the big girl bars

later in life.

 

Nothing better than hanging

around with your people.

Guess who moved in now?

 

 

At our old place we had a fairy door

in our favorite tree.

 

That tree got a work out.

Fairy door,

swing,

yarn bombing...

 

But sadly, we don't have a tree in front.

Yet.

So until we plant one that would house

a whole fairy commune,

we set up a place for a group to keep house.

 



 

And,

we built a bench.

Saw it on pinterest and went for it.

 

Now, whether to add a cushion?

 

As is, it's a good play structure.

Hope the city

 doesn't make us dismantle the glee.

 

Hope you spend the day jumping

off the edges,

into the fun.



It's Flutter Time

The end of school is soon upon us.

And, I can't wait.

 

 

I always feel this way by the end of the year.

(Who am I kidding,

my oldest is only in grade 1,

I've only done this once before?!)

 

 

Last year after the honeymoon phase,

 

 

the walls started to close in and the

kids began to howl: Bored!!

Ack.

I'm hoping to dance around that this year.

I think bored is awesome.

I think bored is an opportunity

to get creative.

 

Are you picking up

what I'm putting down?

 

 

Right now I'm looking forward to slower mornings.

And more free play times.

 

 

 I have fallen in love with CINO's

reversible kimono pattern.

 

 

And I can't

(won't)

stop making it.

 

 

We headed into the woods this weekend,

as we often do...

 

 

...and found all the best things.

 

 

Fields of flowers,

 

 

stump castles,

 

 

and best of all,

salmon berries.

 

 

I love the little flutter sleeves on this top.

 

 

They help with chasing butterflies in meadows.

 

And provide lift for reaching those

hard to reach berries. 

 

 

Apparently I have a thing for that

flower pattern.

Unintentional top and bottom reflections.

 

Now off to reflect on summer prep.

 

I better load up on bubble juice

and batten down the emotional hatches.

 



Freaky Rainbow Readers

The 3 Little's have been having lots

of fun with our new

Little Free Library.

I made a new sign for it to really

bang the drum.

It's been a pretty fun anthropological

study watching people try and make sense

of it for the first time.

People walk around it,

double take,

sneak looks over their shoulders,

give it a wide berth,

and use it.

And I think with all the happy

rainbow happening all over it

it may give off a decidedly LGBTQ vibe.

 

Which is great!

whoot whoot!

 

Our neighbourhood could be accused

of being a little square.

We are definitely the weirdo's in the hood.

While I wish for more weirdos to play with,

if we're out playing

  and flying our happy flags.

maybe we'll meet some kindred spirits.

As the awesome poet Michael Franti says

"All the freaky people 

make the beauty

of the world".

Already the library has been a fun way

to meet new people in the new hood.

Bring on the freaky ones :)