Banquet Journal

montessori

some of the wooden puzzles and other materials at our preschool. it's been such a great place for us, and as number one moves on i'm looking forward to number two starting in the fall.

the joni mitchell

...the pirates ship is "the joni mitchell" and a guest post on the beautiful simple lovely!

quilt love

when i was in los angeles last summer i found this tattered quilt at the fairfax flea for a dollar. love the prints, esp that last one...

snake grotto

LOVE this "schlangengrotte" from the memory of the netherlands, via 50watts.

beefy

 also wanted to share this sweet mention from erin loechner. i love our buffalo too!   ps i forgot to add, a new post over on open to cool.

collage collage

love this post over on the collage collage blog. makes me so happy to see kids using our cards to make great things! and those julie morstad “shapesplosions”? fantastic.

beatty biodiversity museum

  a few weeks ago the fiver's preschool went to the beatty biodoversity museum - here lies the potential for so many more prints, and that blue whale skeleton! and let me just say Raffi! 19 seconds!  

cross stitch

beautiful cross stitch from york antique textiles.

lotte reiniger

https://dailymotion.com/video/xdl9oq by BFIfilms https://dailymotion.com/video/xdl51g by BFIfilms beautiful shadow puppetry by lotte reiniger. from here.

i've loved you so long

i've loved you so long is so completely heartbreaking, but this bit reminded me of lost and happy weekends on savary and gambier...