Spring 2013 Contributors
Spring 2013
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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 her space. | |||
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Samantha Disch is a blessed mama of many little ones, making all natural Waldorf dolls for little ones and big ones to enjoy for a lifetime! Visit her Facebook page for more info and pictures of dolls and projects. | Simple Knitted Cuddle Doll Pattern | ||
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Halina lives with her partner and two young children in a small timber hut in the South of Ireland where they spent their days playing, sewing, baking, drawing, knitting, gardening, raising their children bilingually (German/English), laughing and inventing stories. You can read about their adventures at The Cherry Farm. |
Spring Fairy Doll Knitting Tutorial |
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Miranda Wulff Altschuler is mama to Fiona and Elsa, stepmama to Elijah, and wife to Sheldon. When she is not playing, making things and wandering the neighborhood with her girls, she creates custom house illustrations which she sells through her Etsy Shop, House Love Shop. Learn more about Miranda’s adventures in natural family living, learning and creativity on her blog, Miranda Makes. | |||
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Melisa is a mom of five children and has always homeschooled in the Waldorf tradition. She is the author of “A Journey through Waldorf Homeschooling” curriculum for early childhood through 7th grade, also known as A Little Garden Flower. She also is the facilitator of a Waldorf homeschool teacher training program called Thinking, Feeling, Willing. You can find out more about her work or her program at her website. She is also working on a new free series called Crafting a Healthy Home Rhythm, you can find it on her blog. |
Holiday Planning |
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Shannon Cowan is a novelist and mother of two living in British Columbia. She and her husband blog about their adventures with green building, farming, and family at her blog. | The Community Work Party | ||
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Megan Martin lives on a small farm in South Florida, where she home schools her daughter and tends to a garden and menagerie of animals |
Paper Mache Nest Bowl |
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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 eight-year-old little boy and a toddler baby boy. You can find her at her blog, Ravelry page or her store of crochet and sewing patterns on Etsy. |
Repurposed Baby Pants Tutorial Repurposed Baby Legwarmers Tutorial |
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Justine Uhlenbrock is an urban homesteader, a minimalist mom, a writer, and a doula-in-training living with her husband and two young girls in Arlington, Massachusetts. She is passionate about sustainable living, health, frugality, and her quest for real food and family heirloom recipes. She blogs at The Lone Home Ranger |
Homemade Cheese Crackers |
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Lynn Nash often finds herself musing at the many things for which she is grateful at her blog How the Sun Rose |
Tree of Thanksgiving |
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Zane Kathryne Schwaiger lives in on a Northern Michigan hill with her husband and two daughters. She blogs about the things she loves at her space. | |||
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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. |
To Live Each Moment |
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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. |
The Snowball Curriculum |
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Kathy Stowell likes to scamper through the meadows of the small hobby farm she lives on with her husband, two small kids, mini-dachshund, giant cat, seven chickens, milk cow and her sweet baby, Buttercup. She offers coaching and online workshops to help mamas achieve their maximum simplicity-induced bliss ~ including her freebie; 10 Days to Get You from Crummy to Yummy, Mummy! |
Flannel Doll: First Sewing Project |
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Annie Demko lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband and twin boys on a small, historic homestead where she spends her days caring for and playing with her sons, cleaning, cooking, creating, and attempting to coordinate and accept the chaos. She has recently begun blogging about her days and desire to find and celebrate the beauty and value in the ordinary at Moon in the Window. |
Brighten Your Table with Cloth Napkins |
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Ashley Hensel-Browning is a teaching artist, dancer, parent, and partner as well as a joy-seeker, education junkie, and working wanna-be homemaker. She blogs regularly at Dance with Ashley | Sprout: Spring Dances for You and Your Child | ||
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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. | |||
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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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Nicole Justice-Kleemann is a stay at home mother to her two little children and a slew of poultry (who also fervently believe they are her children). After graduating with her Masters degree in Teaching, she has decided to homeschool her children in the Waldorf tradition. Her journey to Waldorf and her family’s daily adventures can be found at her blog. Also, her favorite food is pineapple! |
How to Create Wood-Burned Gnomes and Faeries
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Elizabeth Sniegocki is a writer and advocate of simple, mindful living. She makes her nest in Sarasota, Florida, where she writes, gardens, cooks, crafts and nurtures two sweet little chicks. Elizabeth blogs about her community, mothering, homesteading and natural living at A Natural Nester. |
Bringing Nature Indoors Summer Fun with Seashells Backyard Blessings Pleasures of Potluck A Mothers’ Circle ~ Uniting Ancient Magic with Modern Motherhood |
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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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Katharina Sandizell has a PDHom in Homeopathy, is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist, and has her Masters in Counseling Psychology. She lives in California with her husband and two boys. They love to hike, go to the beach, and make music together. She does homeopathic consultations in person and over Skype. Find out more at Resonant Homeopathy. |
Healing the Deepest Parts of Ourselves and Our Children: Homeopathy and Waldorf Education |
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Bley Hack is a wife, mother of three, and artist in Ohio who celebrates the seasons and creates nostalgic paper goods for her company, Bibliosophy Handmade. |
Ruffled Wristwarmers |
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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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Joanna Johnson is the author of the knitting storybooks, Phoebe’s Sweater and Freddie’s Blanket, which she publishes with her illustrator husband, Eric, through their independent publishing company, Slate Falls Press. They live in Loveland, Colorado, with their three children, who offer continual inspiration for their stories. The Johnsons are happily working on their third children’s book, Phoebe’s Birthday. You can learn more about their books at Slate Falls Press. |
Little House Shawl
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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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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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Sonja Lukassen used to get paid to bring city-folk into the forest. Now she does it with her family and friends in Ottawa, Canada. She blogs about their exploits and shares ideas at Kids in The Forest. |
Woodsy Wednesdays |
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Amy Ambroult is a silversmith, lover of snowy nights, the smell of low tide, and hands. Her tactile sense has always driven her creative decisions and life pursuits. From rock climbing to gardening to metalsmithing to sweet caresses for her girls, Amy’s hands are given the opportunity to explore their full potential, while her creativity manifests itself in small, wearable art that can be found in her shop. | Spring Vignettes | ||
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Lucy Pearce is a free-spirited, free-lance writer and mama to three little ones aged 6, 4 and 2. She blogs at Dreamingaloud. She has recently launched her first book: Moon Time: a guide to celebrating your menstrual cycle which is available in paperback from Amazon.com e-book format from her new website Thehappywomb, a hub for womancraft and mama souls. She is contributing editor at JUNO magazine. |
Random Acts of Beauty
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