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Anastasia Akasha Kaur Malay lives by the sea in Nova Scotia, Canada with her husband where they raise chickens, turkeys, goats, and children. She shares her passion for life on her blog Keeping It Real. |
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Nicola Alesandrini lives in Northern California with her family, where she spends her days chasing kids, enjoying bits of nature, and avoiding laundry. She’s a jack-of-all-trades who loves economical and ecological living. She writes and crafts whenever she can squeeze it in and she blogs about it all at Which Name? |
An Educational Journey Sharing Gratitude Peach Cream Pie Bringing Birds Home Spring Flower Crafting Holiday Countdown Apple Adoration Wooly Sheep |
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Andrea Belcham is the author of Food and Fellowship: Projects and Recipes to Feed a Community (The Alternate Press, Fall 2011), which looks at the batch cooking group phenomenon more intensively. She cooks, crafts, and tends to her little patch of earth in Quebec. |
The Batch Cooking Group: Cooking Large for Family and Friends Saving the Tastes of Summer Breadmaking for Busy Families Interview with Andrea Belcham |
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Margaret Bloom lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children. When she is not busy feeding her baby and making up silly poems you can find her at her blog. | Time to Eat! Grateful :: A Poem Hardware Store Hannukiah Two Little Blackbirds Fingerplay & Tutorial |
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As a certified Simplicity Parenting© Group Leader, Allison Abramson is honored to help families build deeper connections and have more fun. She lives with her husband and two little girls in Providence, Rhode Island, where she blogs about their journey toward a Peaceful Life. More information about Simplicity Parenting© can be found here. |
The Gift of Simplicity A Story of Rebirth |
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Erin Wallace is married to a loving husband and is the mother of two wee ones and in the process of adoption. She’s currently enjoying life with her sweet family in Virginia. She blogs at Tiny Twist Creative. |
Creating a Gratitude Banner Nature Walk Necklace A Magical Wand Handmade Gift Tags Mobile for Baby |
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Alexandra White lives with her husband and two children in Northeastern Iowa. 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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Rachel Sandhorst has taught environmental education for many years, but mostly in the summer. She looks forward to short November days in order to return to her indoor interests, which generally involve making things. She lives on an acreage in Northeast Iowa where she learns with her two daughters and husband, and enjoys the company of an assortment of animals. |
Nature in November Three Sisters and a Goat Enchiladas Recording the Rhythm of the Seasons The Versatile Beet An Edible Flower Garden |
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Sylvia King is a storytelling girl with a camera, maker of stuff and lover of everyday beauty living in Hamburg, Germany with her husband and two-year-old son. Together with her sister, who lives in the US, she blogs on artsy ants and sells family art on etsy. |
Visiting My Childhood Garden A Seasonal Mobile |
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Kathy Stowell is a homeschooling, homebirthing, homesteading mama living in the Kootenays of British Columbia with her husband, two kids, many chickens and a family cow. She blogs over at While Tangerine Dreams where she also offers Sewing Camps for Backwoods Mamas from all walks of life. |
Flannel Doll: First Sewing Project Spring a Head Wet Felted Cowls Autumn Fleece Wash Heart Garden |
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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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Erin Ellenberger-March is a stay at home, soon to be homeschooling, mama. Her and her husband Mike, along with their two children Poppy and Silas live in a 103 year old settler cabin on 4 acres in rural Ontario with their dog, two cats, and six laying hens. You can read more about Erin on her blog. |
Life Uncommon Flourish Where You Are Planted :: Creating Community in Rural Ontario |
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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 The Big Thaw |
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Crystal Atamian is an environmental educator who fell in love with the wildlife biologist who taught her how to dissect a duck. When she is not living in her tippy red canoe she knits, gardens, plays, and creates with her two children in Spokane, Washington. She blogs about the dirt and discoveries at Duck Duck Moose. |
“We All Live In a Tippy Red Canoe”: Paddling With Kids | ||
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Writer and Educator Amber Greene (B. Ed, ADCC) is mama to Henrietta (16) and Ned (2). Her work provides a flash of insight and bright ideas for a variety of topics including parenting young children, eco-friendly living and artistry in everyday life. She writes daily on her blog MamaMoontime. You can contact Amber via email. |
Motherhood: Life’s First Autumn Season Radiance of the Sun Eight Spring Tips for Growing Gorgeous Children Planting the Bulb of Contentment Finding Truth, Beauty and Goodness in the Autumn Season How To Host a Crafternoon How To Host A Birthday Celebration Ritual |
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Courtney Cable is a Midwestern mama who blogs about keeping a simple, mindful, beautiful, and sustainable home at A Life Sustained. | Solstice Luminaries Welcome Spring Wreath Celebration Bunting |
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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 a seven-year-old little boy and a new baby boy that was born in the summer. 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. | Repurposed Baby Pants Tutorial Repurposed Baby Legwarmers Tutorial New Baby Crocheted Spring Dress Reversible Crochet Baby Hat Winter Baby Beret Spring Flower Baby Hat |
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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 Fingerplay Fun How Tall I Am::Growth Chart and Fingerplay |
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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 Discovering a Sense of Place |
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Susannah Wood obsessively crafts toys for her two children in Charlottesville, Virginia. She also has a small shop where she sells her toys and patterns. | Indoor Play Spaces for Imaginative Play | ||
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Valarie Budayr is the author of the book The Fox Diaries: The Year the Foxes came to our Garden. She is a mom to her three creative children, writer, photographer, gardener, crafter and an avid book lover. You can find Valarie on her blogs A Place Like This and Jump Into A Book. |
The Storyteller’s Bag Stories into Paper Hello World The Sit Spot Santa Lucia Crown A Santa Lucia Festival Life in a Viking Village The World of Louisa May Alcott and Little Women Dream Country :: Becoming a Dream Collector |
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David Sewell McCann fell in love with spinning stories in first grade — the day a storyteller came to his class and captured his mind and imagination. He has been engaged in storytelling all of his adult life through art, film-making, teaching and performing. Out of his experience as a Waldorf class teacher and parent, he has developed a method of intuitive storytelling, which he now shares through workshops and through his website. Together he and his wife Lisabeth Sewell McCann have created Sparkle Stories. | Free Martin and Sylvia Audio: The Autumn Goose Pond Crafting a Story: An Interview With Sparkle Stories Jack and the Snowman: A Free Sparkle Story Mike:: A Sparkle Story |
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Meryl writes about chickens, babies, knitting, gardening, and whatever else tickles her fancy on any given day at My Bit of Earth. | The Chicken TV :: Why We Adore Our Backyard Flock | ||
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Annie Riechmann is an educator, parent and unapologetic lover of striped knee socks, avocados and field guides. She lives in Vermont, wishes that she was better at flying kites and can be found online on her blog, Bird and Little Bird. | Interview with Annie Riechmann of Alphabet Glue Story Lanterns from Alphabet Glue |
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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 Ring in a New Beginning with Homemade Prayer Flags The Magic of Raising Butterflies |
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Sarah Nanjee lives in Dallas, Texas with her husband and two little ones. Besides homeschooling and homemaking, she loves to read, knit, sew, paint and create. She blogs about her life at The Serendipity. | New Day::Celebrating the Spring Equinox | ||
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Donna Ashton is the creator & founder of The Waldorf Connection. She spends her days with her husband and twin girls in Coastal Carolina homeschooling, & creating programs to support homeschoolers. When she can squeeze out time she loves organic gardening, knitting, yoga baking, bike rides and walks on the beach. You can follow her at her quirky and informative blog. | Creating a Children’s Garden | ||
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Kerry McDonald, M.Ed., lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and three young children. She blogs about city homeschooling, natural parenting, and urban homemaking at City Kids Homeschooling. | Fom Mother’s House to Mine Springtime Puddle-Stomping |
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Elise Bowan lives in Colorado with her husband, two amazing boys 12 & 1, and two crazy dogs. She is an avid gardener, baker & cook, holistic healer, and adores simple living and a nature-inspired lifestyle. She is helping to develop a waldorf methods charter school in Colorado Springs with a goal of opening in the fall of 2013.She is also trying hard to convince her husband to get chickens for the backyard.She blogs at Mumacita. | Woodland Stick Frame A Beaded Blessing |
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Chris Willow is a mother, crafter, storyteller and toymaker. She enjoys creating roots with mothers and children in her community. Her inspiration has always grown from her world she shares with her husband and two sons in the beautiful Missouri. She has a store on Etsy and blogs at Mamaroots where she shares her love of crafting, mothering and reading a great book! |
Wood Fire Spirits Summer Bindle Story Eggs Christmas Spider Surprise Yarn Eggs |
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