I have always wanted chickens but just did not think we would be having them so soon. It was the church Bazaar in Philadelphia where Carle lives on the 2nd September. She knew that I wanted chickens at some point and so she ordered me some when she pre-ordered for her boys. And so our adventure with chickens began on 2 Septemeber at the Philadelphia Kerk...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Sep 20, 2011
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The thing about pink hair is that it makes you recognisable. There are not that many of us with pink hair so people remember you. I was in the wool shop on Thursday and a lady caught my eye and said “Hi, how are you?” So I was polite back but it was clear I did not know who she was. It turned out she was from Yme’s dad side of the family...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Sep 19, 2011
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Titus is 6 months if you can believe that. Saturday marked a half a year that he has been part of our family. He is a very dear little boy and I love watching his personality appear.
Babies are hard work no matter what but he has a very sunny nature most of the time to make up for his total dependence.
He is not skinny like the other 2 and was 8.5kg at 5m...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 29, 2011
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I have an unwelcome visitor. With Rachel Aunt Flow only came back after 15 months. With Caleb it was 11 months and now this time it is a day short of 6 months! What is going on with that. All this breast feeding my enormous giant baby and still not even a good 10 or 11 months without a monthly visitor. For most of us a period is rather a hassle but it...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 26, 2011
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I saw this Dinosaur tracksuit top on Pinterest, it is so easy. I made one for Caleb’s birthday and it has been a real hit with him and his friends. Here is the link to the blog tutorial with some nice pictures, I have added my instruction below
Here is how to make it:
1: Find a plain tracksuit top with a hood and zip, this was the hardest part as it...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 23, 2011
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I posted a while ago that I was on a year long gift challenge to make, upcyle or regift all the presents I gave. Here are some of the things I have done so far
A friend’s kids were having a party for their doll Pumpkin and we could not go empty handed so I made a quick pumpkin for us to take
I came across this scarf pattern years ago and like that it...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 22, 2011
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Part of the fun of homeschooling and particularly unschooling is that you are restricted to time tables and curriculums. Today we felled the big pine tree in our garden. It was really sad to have to cut it down but the pine needles make such a mess and the get into the gutters and clog the drains. The soil also gets very acidic from the pine needles. The...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 21, 2011
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I am a terra firma kind of girl. I like having my feet on the ground. I don’t mind flying as am means to get from A to B but not that keen on small planes. I don’t really want to sky dive, bungee jump, go into space if that was something normal people could do. This quite amazes Yme as he would love to be an astronaut and would jump at the...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 17, 2011
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‘It is a virus.’ There is nothing to be done for a winter virus of snot and slime and coughing and misery. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t want them to need antibiotics and most of us know it is not good for them to be on antibiotics repeatedly, but damn there is something that feels good about doing something.
A virus makes you...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 12, 2011
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It was a good friends birthday and she requested the carrot cake I had made for a spinning day a few weekends ago.
I love this recipe. It is sort of based on one my mom had in her whole foods book. We can’t find the book and I was sad as it was by far the nicest carrot cake ever. I tried others on the internet, even one with cooked carrot, but was...
Posted by Pinkhairgirl
Aug 06, 2011
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