my basement flooded but it isnt a noah style flood just a spring in minnesota style flood

Picture aromatherapy play clay for the ***BIG GIVEAWAY***
Originally uploaded by mayamadeherbals

but some of the wood working stuff got wet. but not my herb and aromatherapy stuff thank goddess. i am leaving the door open today and watching the water just float away in the air. it coulda been soooo much worse.

yesterday was the last day of spring break. we were one minute late to school, tons of the other kids were super late. it was kinda funny to watch this line of kids waiting to the late slips. you can see the surfer kid, in a place 1000 miles from any water you could surf in. the urban stylie kids, the nerds, the kids with flakey parents, the religious kids, my kid goes to a school in which a large population are very very religous, very scarey (do not click on that link if you are easily scared.)and then a buncha atheists. its a very odd combonation.

so today i am working on soap. gardeners soap and hand cream as a set. the gardeners soap is a olive oil and canola oil base with calendula infusion and cornmeal. the cream i'm not too sure about yet. i havent worked out the formula yet. we shall see what it contains. yesterday i worked on aromatherapy playclay. man alive it turned out good. if i do say so myself. cinnamon, spearmint, sweet orange, lemon and lavender in matching colors. it smells so delish and plays well too. now i just haveta get the stuff i have for etsy up in the cart instead of in the holding area.

listening to marfa public radio station. rockabilly central. very good

hmmmm... i had a whole thought. but then younger child work up and now its gone. oh yeah. i remember, we went to
loring pasta bar today for lunch. it was lovely, really.
a group of fabulous ladies, okay they aren't ladies really more like super wild women ready rock.


and drink. it was kinda funny. have you seen a buncha fairly to almost drunk 50+ women? very humorous. very. i drove my mom home.

the kid and i had therapy. is it a wonder we need it? it went well. when i say we had therapy i feel like one of those new yorkers that pays someone 200.00 dollars an hour to listen to them but this isn't that. its an entirely different thing. and it goes well. i generally don't like therapy or social workers but for this one i'll make an exception.

were still working on the ***BIG GIVWAWAY!*** for the mdc etsy team check out the blog here http://mdcmoms.blogspot.com/
make a comment here with your contact info, make a purchase for any of the members or a comment on the etsy mothering blog again with your contact info and you'll get a chance to win! of course it doesn't quiet start yet. believe me i'll let you know when it does.

i am excited to start school. lemme tell you it cannot start soon enough. remind me that i said the above when i am immersed in homework and totally overwhelmed kay?

well that about it for tonight. as soon as i can figure out how i'll post pictures of the loring thing. it was a good time.

oh yeah. does any one out there make white lightening? I NEED SOME for medicinal purposes only of course.

yesterday was my moms birthday

and it went wonderfully. really.
we haven't had her party yet, that happens tomorrow night. and bean is spending the night with bff at the farm. hmmmm... farm.
i got my mom great gifties though. a clear green glass vase, a hand blown glass multi colored vase both second hand, some of the rose body cream i mentioned in an earlier post. and i washed her car and vacuumed the interior. which i must say it was in dire need of. the water from the rio grande isn't the cleanest water. not even close. and after a while it kinda started to stink. for anyone who doesn't know we rescued some tourists from the american side of the river (that sounds so weird, american side. as if the river knows which side of an imaginary border you live on or what language you speak.) then of course, we got trapped after dropping off the tourista's. we waited it out in teralingua.

View Larger Map, which is even a more desolate empty "town" then marathon. which no electricity and no phone. and a pre teen boys a teen boy, me and an old lady. but it was fun. we just wandered around. the boys ran around, and my mom and i sat on a restaurant in the dark and had a beer. eventually it stopped raining enough so we could drive through the dark flooded desert towards home base.

and because murphy's law finds humor where i wouldn't necessarily find it. we got stopped by the border guards and after no kidding a 100 questions, the only legal one was if we were american citizens, let us go, soaking wet in rio grande water, cold, hungry and very very late.

well worth it though. well worth it.

my dad who lives near the border has a fabulous youtube video up you all should watch. try to ignore the chickens and roosters crowing in the background.

in anticipation of spring i am show casing a spring line up of etsy items.

while i am still trudging through the snow i am ever hopeful for spring. and in my spring filled heart there are loverly shops that help the arrival of warmer weather. i know some people live in area's of the world where spring is months away (like me) and perhaps the endless drone of the weather forecaster is beginning to wear on your nerves too. well, to help with this i present to you SPRING! etsy style!

spring colors layer it now and wear it with a flowery skirt later.
spring wear i want one of these in a grown up size. look at the fabulous bike! i love bikes, even pictures of bikes. they are the coolest.
spring wear scarf imagine riding your bike wearing this. fluttering in the wind.
bring spring to school or on a picnic with you friends with this cutie little set.
spring style with jewelry i love acorns. i love they way they grow. and smell. now i don't have to let the acorn turn into a oak tree. i can have an acorn forever.
spring animals these are the most darling critters. i want them. especially since i don't have to feed them. i think if i got any more animals we would have to move to the country. hey wait a minute. now there's an idea.
spring playthings hmmmm. i love wood toys. they feel so good in your hand.
spring bag i love purses. i don't own more then one or two but this one might cause me to fall off the wagon.
hmmmm spring skin soothers i think this would be wonderful on hands after a day in the yard.
now spring reminds everyone of new babies. so here are some baby items you might need, gifts for yourself or
a friend
and some older babes too. i especially love this doll. it remind me of the dolls my gramma used to make me.

woooohoooo!

the etsy team i am part of made it into a treasury!
thanks sooo much to brightonwoman generously gave the treasury she was offered to our street team!

we all are so excited! so here is the
link


this is a big deal. as always you can visit any one of our shops at our
blog or you can search etsy for items with the tags "mdc moms" or "mdc"
and i told you all that i would post pictures of the body cream i made yesterday so
so here they are.

i also wanted to give an update on bud, the rescue donkey. he is doing really well. bud has gained 20 pounds or so and is really loving his new herd. the other donkeys piper, linda, lightening and chiptle treat him really well. lightening is ancient for donkey years over fifty, and has really taken a shine to bud showing him the ropes and teaching him all sorts of stuff. important donkey stuff. like how to work the lock on the gate when the humans leave, what plants are the tastiest and how to recognize zacks trcuk sounds so everyone can hear them baying i mean calling to be fed.

there are photos up of how good bud is looking too. wonderful little guy...

wonderful rose skin cream

i was struggling with what to make my mom for her birthday next week. go
pisces ! and while studing at my usual place i came across a fabulous video for making body cream. with video and everything! so i am making her rose body cream. rose is one of her favorite flowers, essential oil and hydrosol. i also made her some rose flower water for her room, bedding, air, skin where ever she wants to spray it.

very exciting. and very useful infomation on that video. the original recipe is from rosemary gladstar and you can look it up on amazon, get it from your library, borrow it from a friend or purchase the book and find it. rosemary is a well known and highly respected herbalist.

when the cream is done i shall post picture but SHHH dont tell my mom. she doesnt have any idea.

because my son has listening logs for music class and i get to help him pick out songs to write about

with a teacher he is convinced is a fascist dictator of art and music. so much so that he is sure he can only make "state approved" art and listen to "state approved" music in school. now, i don't know about that exactly perhaps fascist dictator is too harsh. frau director? but i do know she has talked to me about his objecting to singing the star spangled banner and the national anthem and how the only other kid who wouldn't sing it was a jehovah's witness, and tbh she kinda sneered when she said it. she also made terrible remarks about fat people. rude inappropriate remarks that had nothing to do with the subject i was asking her about. maybe i should just try and skip talking to her. can i get a witness?








gil scott-heron



nina simone



billy bragg, who uh well i don't have problems with his politics, or rather more specifically that he is a commie. but generally anarchist and communists have a pretty long history of uh, division (see spanish civil war c. 1939. when it didn't work out so well for the anarchist. but we had one good year there.)



sigh. woody guthrie.

and a personal favorite. ahhh...to be young.







the redskins










"he who bleeps nuns will later join the church" greatest song lyrics ever.



the clash. no better band. and because i have both an insane family and a family that rocks (all in the same two or three people...) the clash prolly had the greatest influence on my life of any band. they made me who i am and got me though the years of hell known as high school. and for someone like me that's saying a lot.



"the british army is waiting out there..." maybe today it would be the american army, in almost any other country. which remind me of the billions of dollars the air force is asking for to pay for the
f-22 a loverly airplane THAT HAS NEVER BEEN USED IN COMBAT. but was created to prove american military air superiority during the cold war and has yet to be ended. but if we don't pay for even more of the the airplanes lockheed martin will go out of business the hawks cry. hmmm. perhaps there is a different kind of economy we can create? a different
kind of world?

but i digress.

and finally, i think, because i really really like the video that the poster set up with this song...