I am Sarah: 43 year old Canadian-American, tea-drinking, feminist, agnostic, (former) homeschooling, crafty, domestic-artist-wanna-be, island-dwelling mother to Maxine (age 7), Asa (age 10) and Lee (age 13).
this blog is dedicated to urban Island dwelling, creative endeavours and household minutiae.
i haven't posted in forever but i am coming back! all is well, but i needed to take a blog vacation for a bit. i'll be back home next week, so please check back then.
a few notes: the cake was honey layer cake with guava paste filling and rolled marzipan topping and marzipan polka dots- it was so hard to roll out!! i had to get my man to do it for me. is there a trick? i made the fabric bunting with a few new fabrics, but also some from my stash and some vintage pillow cases. my hope is that it will never look dated and we can use it every year to decorate for Maxine's birthday parties. i still didn't finish my gift for her and the house is a wreck, but it was all good fun!
here is Maxine when she was a baby. she weighed 9 pounds 1 ounce, dropping into her father's hands in the middle of the night after 22 minutes of labour.
her exciting arrival was a preview of what she would add to our family life...
Miss Maxine is a mischievous little monkey. Last night i came upon this scene.
am I a bad mum for grabbing the camera first instead of the toddler?!
BUT the biggest change is... Lee wanted a haircut (i think he just felt like a change) so he went to our very own Island salon- Alice's House of Big Hair- with a picture of Professor Indiana Jones.
he is going to donate his hair to Cuts for Cancer, so Alice had to was and dry his hair first. Her cat Creamy sits on all her willing clients' laps.
here's Lee before:
and after:
he is so pleased- he can't stop smiling at his reflection.
i made this for Asa for his birthday- from a drawing he did recently of a car with a tailfin. i got the idea from a shirt Lucia made a while ago. i think he likes having his own art on a shirt!
i have loved them since childhood, but even more now because the time that they bloom on the island is the exact time of Asa's birthday. the day that he was born my man filled the house with lilacs and the heavy scent of them will now always remind me of my sweet baby.
lilacs and a lilac-coloured sweater for a custom-order Sweet Thing(s) sweater
guess what? here it is 3 days after i made this post, and i realized i have a heart in my photo- the leaf of the lilac. there was a 'challenge' this week to hide a heart in your picture, and i had already taken the photo when i read that, so i kinda ignored it- but there it is! how cool.
i've written before about how much Asa loves to dress up (here). my man had the idea of an Indiana Jones costume. I bought the hat and whip (!!- what were we thinking?!- it is now an outside only toy) at a costume shop, and put the rest together from thrift stores. here's the birthday boy getting his annual tuba happy birthday serenade from his godfather, Grahame.