December Planning Pages

Im so sorry it has taken me so long to get these up : (  I have had some sick children and time just flew by.
But I hope that you will be able to use them and its not to late.  Have a very wonderful Holiday!

Your Friend,

Jane

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

May you have a day full of gratitude and Joy!

Little bit of Scotland

Dear Challee has been studying Scotland  and for one of her  activities she wanted to make shortbread cookies.  They turned out really lovely and I thought I would share them with you.

Here is the recipe we used:

Scottish Shortbread

1 cup butter

1 cup granulated sugar

2 1/2 cups of flour

2 table spoons of milk

strawberry jam

Cream softened butter and sugar together till they are blended completely.  Then add the flour.   Our dough was very dry and crumbly.  Start adding the milk and knead it into the dough keep adding the milk till the dough start to form a ball.  You might need a little more then two table spoons but you don't want to add to much. Just enough to make it so you will be able to roll the dough out.    Roll out  your dough to about a 1/4 of an inch thick.  Between a 1/4 of an inch and 1/2.   Then  Challee used our fall leaf  and acorn cookie cutters to cut out the shortbread.  I have a set that has different sizes in it and so we used the big ones first and then the smaller ones next.  Cutting a whole right in the middle of our first cookie leaf.  Then we gentle spooned in the strawberry jam.  Bake them at 375 for about 10 minutes.  Take out when just turning golden brown around the edges.

November planning pages

  I am making a label list on my blogs sidebar.   Im hoping that it will make it easier for you to find the different planning pages.  I hope that will be helpful!  Happy planning I hope all of you that use these pages have a wonderful month, and even if you dont : ) That your November is truely filled with joy!

The Letter H

These are the letter cards I made for H following the story of
The Hut by the Bro. Grimm.  I make them out of index card using my pastel chalks. Then I cover them with contact paper so little ones can use them over and over again with out getting chalk dust on them and every thing else. : )   On the back of the letter H some of the 3 letter words I put on it were hut, hat, how, hug, hill and hi even though its not a three letter word. : )
Also here is our little verse for the letter H.  My second son helped me come up with this verse for my youngest son.   I got the idea of having a verse from a couple of places, A Path of Discovery by Eric L. Fairman, and School as a Journey  both wonderful books.  So no more ado here is our verse : )
The heroes came upon the hobbits home in the hill.
Finding none,and losing hope.
They venture to find the hobbits before the hideous , horrible
half Troll, humiliates them with his horrifying humor.
On this haunting Halloween Eve.
I wonder how hard this will be for Loch to say?  : )

Happy Halloween

I'm very excited to share with you a project I've been working on. When I was a little girl my mom would crochet these adorable little dolls.  I just loved them!   Well I'm so excited to share that I am now able to crochet the same little dolls.  Its taken me along time to finally learn how to crochet. I'm left handed. : )  But I have finally succeeded.

I can now create one of these dolls for my own daughters.  I have been experimenting with different yarns and its amazing what just a little different wait of yarn will give you.

these patterns are over thirty years old but  they reminded me so much of the Waldorf dolls that I like so much.

                 Hope you have a very wonderful Halloween and a

                                                    Happy Autumn!

Provident Living

I found this really neat website on living very frugally.  I thought I would share it with you. : )  Its The Prudent Homemaker, her site is so beautiful.   She makes it look like fun.
Im going to put a button to the website on my side bar, I hope you find some great ideas : )  I have tried some of the fall recipes and have enjoyed them!