Winter 2012 Contributors
Winter 2012
Rhythm of the HomeNo Comment |
Cindy Wallach lives aboard a 44-foot catamaran on the Chesapeake Bay with her husband and two children. She can’t knit, bake, carve, or cook, but she can rebuild sailboat winches, repair a marine toilet, and raise the anchor with a toddler on her back. She blogs about homeschooling, sailing, and their life afloat at her blog. |
True Colors |
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Nicola Alesandrini lives in urban, coastal Northern California with her husband and two young children. She creatively lives lightly with less as a means to creating balance and simplicity. She spends her days chasing kids, enjoying bits of nature, avoiding laundry, and nourishing simple dreams. She writes and crafts anywhere she can weave it in and blogs about it all at Creative.Light.Less. |
An Educational Journey |
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Stephinie Miner turned 30 and found her writer voice, who was happy to be let out. She moves across the country every couple of years following her sweet man. Together they’re raising four kids and dreaming of retiring young. She’s currently wondering where the time went and how she is now a mama to two teenagers. She shares creative bits, healthy food, family life and more on her blog Gypsy Forest. |
Patchwork Picnic Blanket |
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Jennifer Tan, MA lives in Davis, California with her husband and four children, and teaches music and fiber arts, performs on flute, officiates weddings, consults and leads workshops for parents and teachers in the areas of Waldorf curriculum, homeschooling, music, and handwork. She is thankful for the blessingway at her baby shower last year lead by herbalist/author Kami McBride. Jennifer may be reached through her website, Facebook, and her blog. |
Pregnancy Tea |
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Kathryn Pagano is a mama of two spunky little girls, who spends her days navigating the exciting world of young mamahood. She loves whole foods cooking, sewing, reading, hiking with her family and documenting everything in between on her blog Olive and Owl. | ||
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Jo Ebisujima is a Brit living in Japan. She loves creating for children and helping parents to organize themselves and their children so that they can spend more quality time together. She writes about her work at My Organized Chaos. She can also be found at her personal blog jojoebi designs where she shares about her everyday life, Montessori, crafting and raising a bilingual child in Japan. |
Tanabata Wish Tree |
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Elissa Peterson is a busy homeschooling mama who likes a little bit of paint under her fingernails. As a former teacher, she is passionate about all things creative and loves to instill that creativity in her children. Check out all the creative ways she manages to keep her children away from the television in her blog. | ||
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Krista Arias is a mother, minister, midwife, mentor, philospher and poet. She loves words, wonder, and all things earthy. Through MamaMuse, she helps mothers who want joyful births, authentic family and connection to the rhythms of the earth. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family where they run the Tierra Soul Urban Farm & Guesthouse, home-school, and live deeply into life’s magical glow. |
10 Steps Towards Getting the Break You Need, Tired Mama, Without Relying on TV |
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Jessica Hopkins enjoys living the simple life in small town Kansas, with her husband, son, three dogs and 15 fish. | Winter Essay | |
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Shannon Kinney-Duh is the creator of A Free Spirit Life and the mother of 2. She has a passion for inspiring women to reconnect to their intuition and creativity so they can nurture their dreams, live with more meaning and joy, and create lives they love. When she’s not leading e-courses like “Inside Out: A Creative Adventure of Self-Discovery” or “Outside in: A Return to Stillness”, Shannon is playing in the woods or making messes with her boys. |
Make YOU a Priority in Your Daily Life |
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Danielle Reiner and Andrea Folsom, LCSW are the co-founders of Crafting Connections, a website and quarterly digital publication for little ones and their grown-ups. Creative business women, mamas, and friends, Andrea and Danielle are doers to the core and can often be found crafting and creating with their own little ones. Connecting with the natural world through exploration, their children through creation, themselves through focused hands, and the community through shared experience – that’s what they’re all about! Learn more about Crafting Connections and join in the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. | Abstract Printed Scarf | |
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Angela is a permaculturist, bird-nerd and compulsive knitter. Together with her husband and four homeschooled children, she grows crops and teaches free urban agriculture workshops. She strongly believes that growing and eating nutritious food should be a sustainable, economical, community-building, spiritual, and joyful experience – accessible to all people. She blogs at Salt of the Earth Farm. | Red Lentil Curry with Pumpkin and Kale | |
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Rachel Lendyak-Peters is a freelance writer and stay at home mama of darling identical twin boys in Western Pennsylvania. With the help of her husband, they have filled their home with love, handmade happiness and homegrown goodness, which she writes about at her blog, Pete and Repeat. | Seeking Warmth | |
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Courtney Ware is a former social worker and community educator who now spends every day with her two kiddos at their home in Dallas, Texas. She blogs about her endeavor to provide a more handmade, seasonally-centered, natural environment for her family in her blog, The Family Ware. | Scavenged Natural Materials Ornaments | |
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Amy Hughes is a wife, a mama, a writer, a candle-lighter, a bread baker, and an addicted knitter and reader. She homeschools her 7 children over a hill near the California ocean and blogs at To Love. | ||
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Emily Watkins lives with her husband and three wee boys. She loves celebrating the seasons and the church year. Emily’s days are filled with learning, playing, making and reading with her boys. She chronicles some of these activities and various adventures on her blog Watkins Every Flavor Beans. |
St. Patricks Day Story Bag
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Kathy Stowell frolics in the deep snow of the Kootenay Mountains when she’s not defrosting by the fire in the strawbale home she shares with her dreamy husband, two adorable kids, giant cat and mischievous wiener dog. She offers a series of ecourses to help mamas draw in more simplicity, rhythm and flow to their busy days at Bliss Beyond Naptime. |
Flannel Doll: First Sewing Project |
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Laura Hooker is a full-time mother, wife, Registered Nurse, and sewing and crochet-a-holic! She came about this wonderful world of crafting at an early age, and finds much inspiration from her lovely friends in blog land. She really enjoys coming up with and displaying her own patterns and tutorials. She is married and has an eigth-year-old little boy and a one year old baby boy. You can find her at her blog, Ravelry page or her store on Etsy where she and her twin share sewing and fiber tutorials to inspire creativity in other Mamas. She also can be found at Windfall Dolls, where she and her sister give away Waldorf inspired dolls to deserving little ones. |
Repurposed Baby Pants Tutorial Repurposed Baby Legwarmers Tutorial |
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Donna Ashton is the founder and CEO of The Waldorf Connection, an online resource that provides workshops, courses, and coaching to homeschooling families all over the world. As a homeschooling mother, entrepreneur, writer and coach, she knows the importance of daily balance and is dedicated to helping others with this balance in their own lives. You can read more blog posts and information at The Waldorf Connection. | ||
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Megan Devine lives with her husband and four children on the edge of the wilderness in Northern Minnesota. She is an early childhood educator and enjoys learning from all of the wonderful children that surround her in her life. Megan can be reached at via email here. |
Simple Acts, Extraordinary Love |
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Suzanne Chanis lives in Western Mass on a hobby farm she shares with her husband and three of her five children. She loves knitting, gardening and crafting. Most often she can be found in the kitchen cooking up some goodness for her family and shares all of it on her blog. | Cream of Tomato Soup (basil optional) | |
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Hallie Lindal is a mother, home educator and third generation puppet maker living with her husband and two girls in Washington state. She has an Etsy shop and a blog where she shares their adventures. | A Tree for Many Seasons | |
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Sarah Niman is a writer, wife, and mother of three young girls. She lives in the Yukon Territory and blogs at Cure For Boredom. | Dark Days and Warm Souls | |
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Courtney Cable is a Midwestern mama of one who strives to find the creative beauty in each day. She blogs about keeping a simple, mindful and sustainable home at A Life Sustained. |
Solstice Luminaries |
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Alexandra White lives with her husband and two children in Northeast Iowa. She loves the bare beauty of winter and cozy time inside with her family. By day she works as an IT operations consultant, and by evening and weekend she enjoys cooking, photography, and crafts. She writes about her family’s adventures at her blog, Talleygilly. |
Inspiration in Your Own Backyard:: Fairy Houses & Crowns |
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Rosina Huber lives on Vancouver Island, British Columbia and is an enthusiastic home educator to her three children whose goal is to instill a life-long love of learning in each of them through living books, exploration and imagination. She enjoys sharing her love of homeschooling, creative ways to foster learning, projects, ideas and more on her blog Rosy ~ Posy. | Carve Your Own Rubber Stamps | |
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Hanna is the mother of two little children and lives with her husband in a small village in rural North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She writes on her blog about the journey through childhood and how her husband and Hanna try to give their kids a bit of “soul food” to take with them on this adventure. Whenever possible she sews or felts for her little online shop at DaWanda. | Celebrating Wintertime | |
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Meryl writes about chickens, babies, knitting, gardening, food, photography, and whatever else tickles her fancy on any given day at My Bit of Earth. |
The Chicken TV :: Why We Adore Our Backyard Flock Trash to Toys: Three Easy Toys From the Recycling Bin |
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Brenda recently moved with her family of four from rural IL to live down South. The family is enjoying the warmer weather while exploring their new surroundings. She blogs at Pioneer Kids and has an Etsy store Pail and Pie. |
Knit Lollipop Pattern |
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Kathie N. Lapcevic is a writer, teacher, and homebody living in northwest Montana with her soul-mate, Jeff. She enjoys a creative and simple life in which she seemingly hoards glass jars and seeds while sometimes herding cats, chasing honey bees with her camera, and letting composting worms slip through her fingers. A life-long note-taker and journal filler Kathie continues that tradition in electronic format with her blog, Two Frog Home. | Bark Worth Biting | |
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Gretchen Stuppy Carlson spends her days living simply and joyfully in upstate NY with her husband, three young children, a dog, 2 goats and a coop full of chickens. On any given day, you can find her backyard farming, crafting, painting, parenting, and blogging all about it at her space here, and here. | Powerful Princesses for Boy | |
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Jennie sells her handmade toys at her shop, Wild Marigold. She loves to make custom wool playmats so all the farm-less, forest-less, pasture-less, sea-less and city-less creatures of the world have a soft and lovely place to call their own. It makes her happy to use recycled and eco-friendly materials to create inspiring toys for children. If you need help with your playmat, please email her at wildmarigoldtoys @ gmail.com. | Felted Wool Farm Playmat | |
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Becki Lewis is a wife, mom, musician, and educator. She lives in a quiet rural/suburban neighborhood near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where she gardens, hikes, geocaches, bakes, and gets messy with her two sweet girls. You can read about her family’s adventures in going green at Organic Aspirations and about all things music at Lewis Music Studio. | Nature Treasures Mobile | |
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Serena Li lives with her husband and two children on their sailboat sv Wildest Dream. In the summer of 2012, she and her family started cruising down the east coast of the U.S. and are headed toward the Bahamas. She writes about her family’s adventures here. | Rhythm of the Sea | |
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Mary Ellen VanMarter has spent most of her career as a Montessori educator, but has benefited greatly from Waldorf wisdom, both as a teacher and a parent. Additionally, she is a teacher consultant with the National Writing Project and holds an MA in Reading and Literacy. She lives with her wonderful husband and children in North Carolina. You can find her at Pie jesu. | ||
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