Mother’s Day is coming up and I know my girls are busy doing Mother’s Day crafts at school. They are very tight-lipped about what they’re making, but as always I look forward to their handmade Mother’s Day gifts. Another thing I look forward to on Mother’s Day is getting flowers. I love flowers. What I [...]

Tomorrow is May Day and as Louisa May Alcott shared in her book Jack and Jill today is the day to make May Day baskets in all “shapes, sizes and colors.”

The job now in hand was May baskets, for it was the custom of the children to hang them on the doors of their [...]

As far as I’m concerned, spring has sprung. The sun is shining, the temperature is warmer and the birds are chirping. Something is missing though. The flowers aren’t blooming . . . yet. So I decided my girls and I would make our own spring flowers to tide us over until Mother Nature has time [...]

Spring is here . . . finally!!! I was beginning to think that the sun was no longer hiding, but had been taken hostage by the clouds and freezing rain. Now I’m inspired to do spring crafts! So today I’m taking down this snowflake craft and this snowflake craft and putting up my first spring [...]