Tue 13 May 2008
Victorian Passage has a delightful download…an 1887 Alamanac in PDF format (Photoshop has no problem opening this file format) in 300 dpi. It comes in both a color and black and white version.
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A new Victorian journal page to download and print. Created from my image, Delicate. Click on the thumbnail to download the PNG file.
Sat 20 Oct 2007
Click to view, right click and download PNG…print on heavy cardstock.
Tue 9 Oct 2007
Victorian Journal
Nature Journal
Quinn’s Family Tree printable. This is a huge file (PNG format 300 dpi scaled to print on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper) so I zipped it using Windows explorers utility. I’m hoping that it can be downloaded and opened with no problems…if you do have any problems, please just email me (danidh at aol dot com) and let me know.
Click to download each printable. Print on heavy cardstock.
Fri 5 Oct 2007
Victorian
Nature Journal
Click to open new page with the PNG file. Right click and save. Print on heavy cardstock.
Charts and posters from ThinkZone.com and lots of preschool things at PlaySchool Printables.
Thu 20 Sep 2007
Homeschool Freebies…
From International Paper - The Life of the Forest. This is a great set of teaching tools and the posters are R E A L L Y nice! I wish I had the wall space to hang them all.
The EPA offers tons of free materials, some shipped to your home, others for download. I did a simple search using the word “tidal,” filled out the form and received some really nice posters and materials for my area, the Chesapeake Bay.
The Chart Jungle offers free printables…calendars, charts, checklists…you name it!
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I use my crockpot quite frequently to make easy meals for my family but I especially love to use it in the fall, along with some fresh bread from my bread oven. The house always smells heavenly. I visited CrockPot.com and found not only the latest in crockpots (I wish mine would break so I could justify buying the newest one…it does everything!) but some tasty-sounding recipes too.
To use up leftover chicken (one of those store cooked Perdue oven stuffers), I bought one of those chicken and dumplings freezer crockpot meals, added a bunch more baby carrots, new potatoes and fresh thyme. The boys loved it.
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Sophie Anderson’s art makes such pretty Victorian Journal pages. Click to view and download PNG. Print on heavy cardstock.
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Thoughts on Solitude
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. ~Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude,” Walden, 1854
Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. ~Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now
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Ode to Autumn
~ John Keats ~
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,
Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,–
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Thu 13 Sep 2007
Fri 7 Sep 2007
Click on each image to view PNG…right click to download and print on heavy cardstock.
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September
~Brierly Ashour~
When the goldenrod is yellow,
And leaves are turning brown -
Reluctantly the summer goes
In a cloud of thistledown.
When squirrels are harvesting
And birds in flight appear -
By these autumn signs we know
September days are here.
Wed 29 Aug 2007
Thu 23 Aug 2007
Google has a beta Book Search engine that searches full texts of books. The reader applet is quite handy and quickly scrolls through a book’s pages online. Do a search of your favorite author and see what comes up.
The Rosetta Project is an online library of vintage children’s books. “How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers” by Robert William Woods is enchanting.
ChildrensLit.com offers Teaching Guides, Lesson Plans and Teaching Materials.
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Nature Journal
Victorian Journal
Click to view and save PNG - Print on heavy card stock
Tue 21 Aug 2007
Jumped up out of bed and fell flat on my face, went downstairs to be greeted by Yumi’s bathroom problems all over my kitchen floor and her backside (bathtime!), youngest twin comes in to tell me that his stomach hurts and then rushes to my bathroom to take care of said problem…all before six this morning.
It’s just another day. *smile*
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Nature Journal
Victorian Journal
Click to save PNG - Print on sturdy cardstock.
Thu 16 Aug 2007
Nature journal…
Victorian…
Click on each image to open PNG…print on good quality cardstock.
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Summer Sun
~Robert Louis Stevenson~
Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.
Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.
The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.
Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy’s inmost nook.
Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.
Fri 10 Aug 2007
Nature Journal…
Victorian…
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Stampington & Company has a beautiful magazine featured this month…Somerset Home. I want to take a peek at it. Hopefully Barnes & Noble will have a copy.
Found a pretty new artsy blog to visit, Alice Lands.
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~unknown~
The tragedy of life is not death,
but what we let die inside us while we live.
THEREFORE
Decide to be happy,
render others happy,
proclaim your joy.
Love passionately your miraculous life:
Do not listen to promises;
do not wait for a better world;
be grateful for every moment of life.
Switch on the positive buttons in yourself;
Those marked optimism, serenity,
confidence, positive thinking.
Love, pray and thank God everyday.
Meditate, smile, laugh, whistle, sing
and dance.
Look with fascination at everything.
Fill your lungs and heart with liberty.
Be yourself fully and immensely.
Act like a queen unto death.
Feel God in your body, mind,
heart and soul and be
convinced of eternal life.
All Graphics, unless otherwise noted, ©Dani Foster Herring/Dani3D.com.
