Spring preparations

So, it was just days ago that I mentioned it was so warm here I was sure spring had come a month early. I'm sure you can guess what happened next. Yes a few cold rainy days of course!

Those few warm days were just enough to spark my enthusiasm for spring time preparations.

Ive been busy making some little spring root children from the book 'The Nature Corner'. I made felt for the dresses by wet felting organic merino wool rovings and dying them with eco friendly dyes. Dyes and wool rovings were from my sponsor The Humming Alpaca

 The first one is almost done. I'm not particularly happy with her head but I know ill learn from my mistakes and the second and third doll will be nicer. The second head Ive stuffed tighter so it should be a little chubbier and cuter.
Why yes I am still wearing my new cardigan and no I still haven't done its button band;)

I have been reading the story of the root children and we have been acting it out with our little dolls (which were needle felted by the very talented Kate, yay for swaps!) Its been a lot of fun

all of the decorations I made myself except the ostheimer tree and lamb

Ive also found all the spring decorations from last year.

I'm still deciding exactly how our spring celebration will go but I'm  thinking we will have a garden hunt. (inspired by Frontier Dreams)
I will hide
*the spring root children,
*some felt butterflies bees and ladybirds in the wet felted eggs(which we will hang on the wooden ring pictured above, to be a mobile for over our indoor table)
*and also some dyed eggs that we can eat for snack time.

I began my Waldorf journey around a year ago and now that we are having our second Waldorf inspired spring I can now see how fun and exciting it is having all these things packed up for three seasons to seem new again a year later. I know it will get more exciting as years go by when the treasures hold memories of seasons long ago.

I also found this frost child i made last year so he can be out for the next few weeks even though I think our frost is probably gone for this year (the beans I impatiently planted too early are hoping so anyway!)