watercolor prints

(photo by Lori of the Camp Creek Blog)

instructions here. 

Gather

(photo by the amazing Aria Fotografia)

A homeschool group's gathering in N.Y. -- so charming!

Here they are learning Luau: A culmination of Queens Home Educators Alliance's first "Quest for Culture" unit: Hawaii. 

aria fotografia

Culture is activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and human feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

-Alfred North Whitehead

a boy's desk

(photo by Lori of the Camp Creek Blog)

collections

(photos by Childhood is calling)

childhood is calling 

childhood is calling

homegrown

(photo by Bubble & Squeak) 

 

But as soon as we take into our own hands some of the tasks we'd previously consigned to machines and manufacturers, our work becomes vastly more gratifying.

-Laurel Robertson in an excerpt from Laurel's Kitchen