For baby

Here's a little embroidery I've been working on as a gift for 

one of the many babies being born to friends from now till summer...  

Seems that flowers are not the only things blooming!

I tend to not have a patient hand and I struggle with precision.... but it is all good practice.

Los pollitos dicen... pio pio pio

cuando tienen hambre , cuando tienen frio

la gallina busca el maiz y el trigo

les da su comida y les presta abrigo

bajo sus dos alas, accurucaditos

hasta el otro dia duermen los pollitos

A beautiful spanish lullaby.  

This is probably one of the first songs a baby will hear in latin America, as he is trying to sleep. 

A great version is sung by Elizabeth Mitchell in the CD "you are my little bird" .

Featured on the crafty crow

Our blog and project was just featured on the Crafty Crow's  blog 

for "what can you make out of cardboard tubes"!

YEY!!!

We are thrilled!!!

mama earth globe cake...

In honor of EARTH DAY... Here's our mama earth cake. 

Daddy and daughter were VERY eager to eat it... 

BUT the rush job was due to the "is it done yet???".  Only made it half way with the continents... (sorry europe and asia)... and the powder sugar dusting was supposed to be clouds!

We listened to a great song ...

With my own two hands by Jack Johnson  (listen here)

"I can change the world

With my own two hands

Make it a better place

With my own two hands

Make it a kinder place

With my own two hands

With my own

With my own two hands

I can make peace on earth

With my own two hands

I can clean up the earth

With my own two hands

I can reach out to you

With my own two hands

With my own

With my own two hands

I'm going to make it a brighter place

With my own two hands

I'm going to make it a safer place

With my own two hands

I'm going to help the human race

With my own two hands

With my own

With my own two hands

I can hold you

With my own two hands

I can comfort you

With my own two hands

But you've got to use

Use your own two hands

Use your own

Use your own two hands

With our own

With our own two hands

With my own

With my own two hands

Our recent reading...

Plus I loved this week's "A chef's table" on NPR (which you can listen to online below)...

On NPR this week on A Chef's Table ... a great episode you can hear online which talks about :

"It's been said that eating is not only an agricultural act, but also a political one. But it does make sense that how we eat can make a lasting impact on our environment - the problem is figuring out what choices really matter. Paper plates? Organic Vegetables? Bottled Water? This week we examine some choices. From replacing veal with buffalo to entertaining tips that don't fill up the landfill with one-time products, we'll discuss the quandries, questions and curious solutions to "living green." We'll talk to the author of "The Ethical Gourmet," discover a winery that composts four-star meals, and talk to the Soup Peddler. "

also This week's featured books:

Ethical Gourmet: How to Enjoy Food That Is Humanely Raised, Sustainable, Nonendangered and That Replenishes the Earth
by Jay Weinstein

The Era of Choice: The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life
by Edward C. Rosenthal

Soup Peddler's Slow and Difficult Soups: Recipes and Reveries
by David Ansel, Liza Ferneyhough (Illustrator)

Serve It Forth
by M.F.K. Fisher

Simply Green Parties: Simple and Resourceful Ideas for Throwing the Perfect Celebration, Event or Get-Together
by Danny Seo

Starting with Ingredients: The Quintessential Recipes for the Way We Really Cook
by Aliza Green

Peeps dioramas

Just some easter fun on my part... inspired by the PEEP show in the washington post...

(I had a lot of fun making them and regressing to my teenage-hood!)

molly, jake, ralph...psychadelic furs... i miss you.

PEEP-ster dioramas! inspired by my love of the 80's!

Guess all the movies depicted and you can consider yourself a true 80's movie buff!!!

happy easter to all PEEP-sters!