Magical Monday Giveaway: Mosey's Mermaid Crown

Our Magical Giveaway is is so... well magical. It is the sweetest mermaid crown made of the softest wool and sweet woven ribbon. it is the perfect highlight for our tribute to mermaids. This crown come to you by way of Mosey.

Mosey, Waldorf inspired birthday crowns and toys, created by Steph & Jes who joined forces a little over a year ago. Steph and Jes have been friends for over 18 years, they used to write a zine together and now they make mosey magic!

They draw their inspiration from Waldorf education and the warmth of working with all-natural objects.  In the past year their Waldorf style birthday crowns have become their most loved and cherished things in the shop as well as one of our favorite things to make. We choose every detail carefully down to the fancy ribbons & shades of wool felt. Their crowns were crowns were featured in Mothering Magazine's ♥ Best Natural Toys ♥

Mosey's creators say, "We try to always keep in mind the children who will be holding or wearing our creations and we hope they receive as much magic from each object as we put in to making them!" To read more about this wonderful Artist head on over to the Naturalkids Team Blog!

Giveaway item: Mermaid Wool Crown by Mosey

Contest Date: Monday April 1st, 2013 - Friday April 5th, 2013. The winner will be picked on April 5th, 2013. Winner will be announced on my Facebook Page.

Who Can Enter: This Giveaway is for domestic and international ( International winners are responsible for all tax, custom, and duties applied by your country. This item will be marked Merchandise on the custom paperwork.)

How to enter:
Check out Mosey's shop and tell us what you think.

For Extra Entries:
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First Spring Walk

After dinner we went on our first spring walk living in our new town and this is what we saw...

Amazing Old Doors

Lovely Detail Work

Amazing Victorian

original brick road showing itself

home again, home again...

I just love my new town!
Make sure you check out my Magical Monday Giveaway post and enter to win this weeks giveaway!!

Magical Monday Giveaway: Underwater Stash

Spring is here even though it is very snowy outside right now. Spring always gets me in the mood to clean and organize. Over the next few weeks I will be working on my studio. I have now been in my space for over 6 months and feel I know how I need to work in it to be most productive.

During this process I will be sorting though my stash of Nature table items and getting this organized for my new project of story book making and stop motion videos. While cleaning and organizing I came across some extra little items that I thought would be fun for a giveaway.

This set of items makes for a great theme Nature Table set up, this collection is small enough that you can add it to a travel bag and take it with you. A few wooden toys and it would be complete for an underwater adventure.

Giveaway item:
11" Water Playsilk
A few water drop (glass)
A few pretty sea shells
A set of Sea Coral from The Enchanted Cupboard

Contest Date: Monday March 25th, 2013 - Friday March 29th, 2013. The winner will be picked on March 30th, 2013. Winner will be announced on my Facebook Page.

Who Can Enter: This Giveaway is for domestic and international ( International winners are responsible for all tax, custom, and duties applied by your country. This item will be marked Merchandise on the custom paperwork.)

How to enter:
Leave a comment about what you most look forward to for Spring.

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Spring Arrival

We got a long awaited Spring surprise. 

Meet Galadriel, Gladdy for short, 1st born and named after the The 7th Queen Enthroned.

 

 Meet Gandalf The Grey, 2nd born named after the Wizard and Leader of The Fellowship of The Ring.

Meet Guinevere, nicknamed Gwen and named after The legendary Queen of Camelot.

This is my Max, the sweetest little boy, he does all the litter clean up and feeding of the cats. He has been pleading, since they were born, for us to keep them all. He does not care about the amount of work it will add for him. It has been hard for me to keep our Easter surprise for them but the surprise is we are going to keep them all!! SHHH!!! Don't tell them!

Hearty Skillet Rice Dinner

Here is another great quick dinner. This is also a great way to use up leftover rice. I like to do big cooking once a week and then keep precooked rice and pasta in the fridge for easy meal planning. The meat can be substituted with any ground meat,  diced up whole meat, or beans of your choose. I love to make this meal for our friends that eat gluten free.

Ingredients

2 teaspoons olive oil

3 cup Brown Rice, cooked

1 cups chicken stock

1 med onion, diced

1 green pepper, diced

1 Red Pepper, Diced

2 cloves garlic, finely chopped

1 med. zucchini, Diced

1 Lb of Ground Pork, pre-browned

1 Jar (homemade or Commercial) of Med. or Mild Salsa

1 cup precooked left over or frozen corn

Fresh - Sprig of Cilantro and Oregano

OR

Dry -1/2 teaspoon ground cumin, 1 teaspoon oregano

1 teaspoon chili powder

1/2 lime, juiced

Salt

2 cups shredded cheese - we use a Mexican Mix


 In a medium saucepan, heat 2 teaspoons olive oil over medium-high heat. Cook Sausage till browned. Add veggies and saute. Add rice and broth cook it and stir for a few minute. Once broth has absorbed add salsa and herbs. Turn the heat down to low and covered for a few minutes to raise the heat. Add cheese and cover again till melted.

The Enchanted Cupboard: Easter Sale 20% Off

Now is the time to stock up for holidays and birthdays! Lovely eco-friendly toys, a life time of joy to get to pass down for generations. Give a gift that is engaging and good for the Earth too! Our sale Ends 11PM EST on March 15th, so come shop now for a great savings and enchanting toys! Cotton colorful eggs can be found here!

Lazy Summer Days and Mermaids

When I was a girl living on Sunshine Mountain in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania, we had a great watering hole under a bridge where we spent lazy summer days! My cousins and I would take our bikes, but mostly had to walk because the road had a very steep down hill and followed by a steep uphill. Pushing your bike in that midsummer sun would always make you question the logic of bringing the bike, but once you got to ride on the flat part on the way to the bridge you didn't think about it anymore!
The trees over hung on both sides of the creek, and it created this beautiful canopy of leaves that blocked the hot sun and made the light dance on the top of the water. It was pure magic! Most of it was shallow, but under the bridge, the bigger boys had dammed up the water so that they could dive off the bridge.
In the deepest area where we swam there were large rocks we would sit on and pretend we were mermaids. My cousin Christine and I became great swimmers that summer. A customer asked me if I could make some wooden mermaids like my fairies and it took me back to this wonderful memory.

Here is what I came up with...

These wonderful little girls are ready to swim and play. I love the magical feel they have and how the playsets are developing. All sisters and a mama at a size that is just right for little hands and nature table play.
Rhyme and Reason are twins with sisters Story and Verse being the youngest. The lovely mama is Song because she sings sweetly to her girls at night! The stories are developing in my head and over taking my dreams at night, I hope you like them as much as I do! You can find these toys and more at The Enchanted Cupboard.

If you like the little wooden seal check out Armadillos Dream .