Alpaca Roving and Chocolate Chip Cookies

We made a visit to a local alpaca farm this weekend and had a wonderful time with the new baby alpacas. The roving was so delicious we could not resist so we got some roving from Hershey's Kiss and Snowmobile Runner (two of the alpacas) and a mixture of browns and blacks from various alpacas and had a lot of fun making different felted foods and other items from them!

You can see some of the pictures of what we made at:
http://thedreamangels.weebly.com/photosfr.html

I started a special photo page for all the local businesses we support so I have them all there in an album called "Goldwater Creek".

After you look at the photos I am sure you won't be able to resist getting out your roving and making a few things too!

Blessings & Health,
Kristie
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Advent Story Ribbon

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Felting Without the Needle

Ever since we started working on this video the kids and I have not been able to stop making these adorable little felted figures! The figures you see in the pictures above were made by a 3,5,9 and 11-year old without needles. How? Find out by downloading the member video of the week at The Waldorf Channel. It is available at: Felting Video

Speaking of Felt...

I just read all the e-mails about the felted animals and posted my felted hobby horse, then I went to check out my BLOG feeds (I read my favorite BLOGS once a week) and found that one of my favorite BLOGGERS has done a wonderful bit on felt food - and he presentation is amazing as always! She has pictures of a gift she gave to a friend of her child's here:

LIFEFLIX

Felt Stick Horse

I found this ole horsy when I was helping my daughter clean her room (don't ask me for the details on that). It brought back such good memories! We made it together when my eldest was 7 (she is 13 now) and it was very easy - we just used 2 pieces of large felt fabric and cut them in the shape of a "sock" - hand sewed them together, stuffed it, added button eyes, sewed closed the part where the stick went in and we had a lovely stick horse. I am not sure why we chose pink....but anyway...thought this might inspire someone out there. We got a lot of use out of him before he joined the stuffed animal zoo in my child's closet!

I felted my pet cat's fur yesterday!

Dear Parents,

So what does one do with their fingers when they have been knitting like mad for a month and suddenly one day they have a break with nothing to do with their hands?

Well, I ended up felting my pet cat's fur. It was sort of an accident, really. She saw that my lap was free (this cat follows me aroud like I am the Pied Piper and waits for me to sit down) a lot yesterday so she got petted A LOT. Finally I decided to switch to the little cat brush we have. So I brushed an brushed an removed some hair and had this little pile of cat hair. I was talking to a friend at the time and didn't want to get up and throw it away so I held it in my hands for a while and started messing with it...pretty soon it started to take on a felted texture. So I thought...hey - perhaps I could make something out of this....so I made a little skirt for a doll.

Encouraged I made some hair for the doll and then a little baby dragon. Ran out of hair then. We have a nice white bunny and I tried to get some hair from her (I was having fun by this time) but she didn't want to be petted so...

Anyway, this was really easy. All I did was roll the hair around in my fingers for a while until it started to come together like felt. Before it was too stiff I started shaping it into what I wanted. I didn't use any needles. So I guess this would be "finger felting?" is there a such thing?

Enjoy!

Blessings & Health,

Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND
Mother to Mosi, 13: Suni, 11: Sofi, 9
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http://herbnhome.blogspot.com/ (Frugal Natural Healing and Living)
http://waldorfschoolonline.blogspot.com/ (Waldorf Home Schooling Inspirations)
http://healinghumor.blogspot.com/ (Healing Humor)
http://thedreamangels.blogspot.com/ (Inspirational Thoughts)
http://yearofthelimo.blogspot.com/ (A BLOG about my crazy car and charity work)