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Lanolizing is a process that waterproofs woolen soakers. Lanolin can be found in the baby section of most stores. It is often used by breastfeeding mothers. Crochet Diva bought some at Wal-Mart. The brand is Lansinoh. All that is needed to lanolize woolen soakers is Lanolin, a bowl, hot water, and baby shampoo. First, run hot water in a bowl (Bowl should be big enough to fit soakers in). Then, squirt one spoon of lanolin in the hot water and a squirt of baby shampoo. Mix the solution with your hands (This makes hands really soft :)). Solution should become white and milky. When solution is milky, this means that the lanolin is emulsified, and ready to lanolize the soakers in. 
Soak over night in lanolin solution. Take soaker from solution and push water out gently. Lay wet soaker on a dry towel and roll to wring excess water out of soaker. Hang to air dry (This could take a few days).
Getting the Wee Diva to hold still long enough to model her new soaker was not easy, but finally she relented:
June 22 2008 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
I got this Baby Einstein video for my baby when she was first born. I mostly wanted it because it was van Gogh, but it is great for so many other reasons. First of all, my daughter who is five months old loves it. She is mesmerized by the wonderful music and colors. I even catch myself watching it. I believe this video would help any child learn their colors. I am anxious to find out if my baby learns her colors easily because of it. Besides all that, there are wonderful paintings by van Gogh in it, including:
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Lane in the Public Garden at Arles
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14 Sunflowers in a Vase
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The Starry Night
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Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles
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Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
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Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise
Vincent van “Goat” is a cute puppet in this video, and he paints the famous van Gogh paintings. These paintings help the child learn their colors. VERY CUTE! (And if you notice, on the cover, Vincent van Goat even has a bandaged ear!)
June 16 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
When my husband first bought me this book I was skeptical about reading it, because it is fiction. Now that I have finished reading it, though, I am starting to wonder if it is totally fiction at all. This book definitely raised many questions in my mind…..
Richman tells the story as though Marguerite, the famous Dr. Gachet’s daughter, is narrating it and tells of a torrid love affair between Vincent and herself prior to Vincent’s suicide. Although the story is written as fiction, the end of this book discloses some facts that lead one to believe that even though this is fiction, there may very well be some truth to it. I normally do not want to read anything fictional about something like van Gogh, because I don’t want to confuse myself about what the facts are and what is made up. This book, though, was well worth the read, and may very well have given us a closer look at the last moments in Vincent van Gogh’s life.
June 16 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
In Vincent’s letter to Theo, which is letter 596 in “The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh” Volume III, Vincent talks of sending Theo “Two studies of cypresses of that difficult bottle-green hue”… and also, later in the same letter, Vincent says “Only I have no news to tell you, for the days are all the same, I have no ideas, except to think that a field of wheat or a cypress is well worth the trouble of looking at close up, and so on.” Further down in the same letter, Vincent writes: “I think that of the two canvases of cypresses, the one I am making this sketch of will be the best. The trees in it are very big and massive. The foreground, very low with brambles and brushwood. Behind some violet hills, a green and pink sky with a crescent moon. The foreground especially is painted very thick, clumps of brambles with touches of yellow, violet and green.”
October 24 2006 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
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