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What on Earth is Earthschooling?

What on Earth is Earthschooling? An Interview with Kristie Burns by Tracy Stevens of “A Better Education” BLOG Kristie Burns is an earthschooling mother of three children, ages 10, 12 and 14. Kristie works from home as a healer, artist and teacher. She ran a Waldorf Enrichment school from 2000-2004 and now provides curriculum, lesson plans […]

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Photographing Fairies with Sofi

Today we went to photograph the fairies. We wanted to take pictures of them by the really nice mushrooms we saw last week but someone took all the mushrooms away so we took pictures of them in different places. I set the fairies up and my mom took the pictures. We saw a baby bunny […]

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Homeschooling Challenges: Turning a “Bad Day” into a “Great Day”

Sometimes a morning just looks impossible. Of course I have an ideal vision of what I want it to be – filled with smiles, gently stretching, perhaps a song and a prayer, good food and a sunny clean home. However, this morning started out to be anything but that! I had not been able to […]

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First Farmer’s Market

Sofi is working on the lesson Starting Your Own Business for Kids. This is her experience… Today I had my first actual store. I sold one mermaid and met a lot of people and gave a lot of people my website name. A fiber artist named Wendy came to talk to me. I showed the […]

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Dish Tag – a Housework Game

With Earthschooling, volunteering, a business to run, more than ten pets, three kids and a home to keep going, I am always looking for ways to be more efficient and get things done with less stress. “Dish Tag” has helped me so much I wanted to share it with all of you to perhaps help […]

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Alpaca Farm with Sofi

Today we went to visit some alpacas at a farm near where we live. They were very cute. They get very hot in the summer and so they have to be hosed down twice every day. My favorite was the chocolate llama. We bought some wool roving from Snowmobile and Hershey’s Kiss. When I came […]

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Candycane-icorn Falls Into the Hot Chocolate: A Knitting Story

Ever since I made this little gal she has been into everything in the house. Perhaps that is why I have had a hard time adopting her out. But I don’t have time to go into all the trouble she has gotten into! I will just share with you what she did last week. Candy […]

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Making Mermaids with Sofi

I’ve made a lot of movies with mom but today I wanted to make a real DVD because I will be setting up a booth at the farmer’s market and I want to show people how I make the felted mermaids. I made little packages of roving and supplies and my mom made some DVDs. […]

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An Interview with Kristie Burns of Herb’n Home: How to Start a Business

Kristie Burns on the Business of Herb’n Home By Sherry Borzo Is this a time of stress for you? Are you stressed that I ask that? Kristie of Herb’n Home shares a compelling entrepreneurial journey which is worth a listen but more than that, she also offers some interesting information that may help you rethink what […]

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Spiritual Letter from Santa

Every year many people request that I re-post this or they write to tell me how much it helped their family and how much they enjoyed using it this year or last year. So here is this year’s Spiritual Santa Letter… Letter from Santa by Kristie Burns copyright www.Earthschooling.com Update from last year: Sofi […]

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Do Non-Waldorf Toys Really Exist?

Important Note: You may copy this e-mail/BLOG post to any list or location you want. However please include the title, my name and website listed below. ALSO include the important note that comes with this article in italics. Can a Non-Waldorf Toy Become Real? Waldorf and the Velveteen Rabbit by Kristie Burns www.EarthSchooling.com Important note: […]

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Ten Minute Pumpkin Pie

Every year somebody asks me to publish this recipe again. Ever since I discovered it my kids don’t even like the “regular” pumpkin pie anymore! This is SOOOOO easy and tastes like a pumpkin pie with a thin crust – the recipe actually makes its own crust. Hope this helps your life be less hectic […]

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