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  • Printable Colouring Sheet

    by Raina McDonald
    Free printable colouring sheet from Raina's pandemic sketchbook!
    Posted in coloring sheet, colouring sheet, free, pandemic, printable colouring, raina mcdonald

  • Back to the Den

    by Raina McDonald
      Polka dots and tie dye, hand-me-downs, I can fly.   Race me, fall breeze. Watch me, crunchy leaves.   Last season  piling up, breaking down on ...

  • Into the Woods...

    by Raina McDonald
    and out the next morning.    
    Posted in children in the woods, forest bath, handmade life, raina mcdonald, rural nova scotia, wilderness

  • Rushing Brook

    by Raina McDonald
    We're nestled on one side of a valley out here in Brookland, Nova Scotia. Brookland: the land of brooks. Beyond our shop & studio lie hundreds ...

  • Good night, June.

    by Raina McDonald
    From our details to the bird's eye: permaculture earthworks, plantings, forging & foraging with R&R Handmade in rural Nova Scotia.
    Posted in june, nova scotia, permaculture

  • January

    by Raina McDonald
    Some details around here on a cold, still winter’s day.
    Posted in blacksmith shop, nova scotia, R&R handmade, shop dog, winter

  • From conception to birth, we present: the Lunar Bowl

    by Raina McDonald
    These small bowls evolved in design over years until we found a form that we loved just so.  I was holding one a few weeks ago, feeling its weight...

  • Moments of Summer

    by Raina McDonald
    Bees. Honey Bees. Pollinating like crazy. Thank you, bees. Poppies.  A whole whack of them in our compost pile.  Volunteering wildly.  I don’t m...
    Posted in nova scotia summer

  • Hands and Berries

    by Raina McDonald
    Wild strawberries along the trail in June.  Sweetness in my hands and belly. First low-bush blueberries off our field at the beginning o...
    Posted in R&R handmade, slow living, suzanne babineau, wild blueberries

  • Draw, Swap, Colour

    by Raina McDonald
    Last week when Yula and I were colouring together we birthed an idea, a collaborative one that grew and morphed and had us giggling and excited. T...
    Posted in collaboration, drawing with kids, mark making

  • Unfurling

    by Raina McDonald
    “But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything is a commodity to be bought and sold.  The market economy story has s...
    Posted in braiding sweetgrass, ferns, fiddleheads, foraging, gift economy, unfurling, wild edibles

  • Sacred Life. Winter Greens.

    by Raina McDonald
    This morning I drove to Wallace to visit my new friend at La Finquita (the little farm).  When I met Silvana a year ago, I could feel a pull from ...
    Posted in inspiration, la finquita, life, road trip, sacred, wallace nova scotia