We LOVE the Tiptoes Lightly series of books by Reg Down. Last year was our first year reading them beginning with The Festival of Stones. We loved following Tiptoes, the fairy, & Pine Cone & Pepper Pot, the gnomes, through all the fall & winter festivals. Michael was so thrilled to be clebrating the same festivals as our favorite charachters in the book.
We still have a couple of Tiptoes books to collect, that's why I was super excited to win a Tiptoes book of our choice from Reg Down himself at Life as a Schoolhouse blog!
We chose The Magic Knot & Other Tangles & were thrilled to see he had signed and drew a picture of the gnomes Pine Cone & Pepper Pot. This book is indeed a comedy, we laughed out loud throughout. Michael's favorite part was when the gnomes were trying to get Tiptoes' birthday present into her acorn house at the top of the oak tree. Owen, who often runs around & plays during our evening story became very interested when a certain character thought a snake was invading his home. Now Owen is excited about Tiptoes as well and he loves her house.
My dear friend Mari gave us this fun idea. We found a wooden acorn ornament at our hobby store.
And I wood-burned Tiptoes' door and two windows onto it. It now hangs over our nature table with a felt oak leaf. Simple & fun.
Thank you so much to Reg Down for our book and to Lacey at Life as a Schoolhouse blog for hosting the giveaway!
Until next time...
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Oh how wonderful! Congratulations on winning. Your acorn is so sweet! Please link this over on Waldorf Wednesday-- it's so beautiful!
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Yay! Such a cool idea with the acorn for tiptoes house! I'm going to look for one like that when I go to the craft store next! We love tiptoes, and this time of year seems so perfect for reading them!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful acorn house! I think we will need to have one here, too!
ReplyDeleteCute! I love your banner by the way!
ReplyDeleteWow, awesome! I need to find out where I can get those books!
ReplyDeleteHi! You can click on Reg Down above and it will take you to his website to see all the books. They're available at Amazon and many other Waldorf stores and bookshops.
DeleteI'm respectfully envious of your signed copy - we *love* The Magic Knot! We are making our way through Lost Lagoon right now, and I'm looking forward to reading Pumpkin Crow again soon. (I really need to get the autumn/winter festival book....)
ReplyDeleteLove your acorn ornament!
Congratulations on winning! I'm so excited for you because whenever I see Reg Down books I think of you as I didn't know about them before coming to your blog.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the little acorn house! I'm thinking about acorns a lot right now too!
xoxo
~ joey ~
How gorgeous and special is your little acorn house! Such a clever idea :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is adorable! My eldest daughter loves Tiptoes. : )
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