I like mushrooms.
I like to eat them. They taste really good in an omelet. Or with a steak or roast beef dinner.
Rich bought me mushroom salt and pepper shakers for Christmas once. So cute!
Seeing a mushroom, while walking along in the woods, makes me very happy.
I made Sarah a dress. It is made out of lovely forest green material, with mushrooms all over it.
It’s her little Miss Mushroom dress!
Mushrooms are an edible fungi, but some are poisonous. It can be hard to tell the good ones from the bad ones.
People who forage for mushrooms to eat are brave.
I say that because every year someone dies from eating poisonous mushrooms.
I buy my mushrooms from the grocery store.
The ones in the woods, I only observe.
If you are a wild mushroom forager and have lived to tell about it, please leave a comment on this post!
Fungi are beneficial to our world because they break down dead material.
There are many many different kinds of mushrooms…and they are easy to draw and label, making them a perfect nature study. Children can draw them easily into their notebooks after every new discovery.
For more interesting information on mushrooms see: Handbook of Nature Study, by Anna Comstock
Do you see the mushroom in this next picture?
“In times of old, not only was it believed that toads sat upon them, but that fairies danced upon them and used them for umbrellas.” ~A.Comstock
Little Miss Mushroom
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hi shanda…….the colors of sarah’s dress against the colors of the woods is perfectly stunning! she does make a cute little mushroom!
Isn’t it amazing the shapes and colors and sizes of the wild mushrooms! I too love them (to look at). I have eaten morels (spelling), but always waited anxiously for something to happen (hallucinations, liver failure…Hee Hee). they were wonderful fried in a little butter and then made into a sandwich. guess it wasn’t the healthiest, but oh, so yummy.The pictures of your daughter in her “mushroom dress’ are adorable. Love the earthtones in the dress material. Love the poses in the woods too with the mushrooms;).
Little Miss Mushroom is beautiful~!! Yes, I love mushrooms but have not had enough nerve to eat wild ones. I’m praying for you this week!! May Jesus grant you much peace . . .
I remember that dress! The red trim is the perfect touch. I just love these shots of Sarah in her Little Miss Mushroom Dress, surrounded by leaves and moss and even mushrooms. She could certainly pass as a fairy!
once when i was about 10 my brother dared me to eat a wild mushroom – so i did.. and lived to tell! ;)i don’t typically like mushrooms though.. unless they’re stuffed w/ cream cheese and bacon or lobster~ mmm-mmm. shayne however loves them – any and all ways!that dress is darling. she looks like a little gnome in the woods! i’m sure the fairies were hiding under the nearby mushrooms to watch~ 🙂 hapPy tuesday
I also like mushrooms – but do not forage for them. I get them in restaurants and grocery stores. I love the pictures of your Little Mushroom.
We eat morels and spikes picked in the woods and fields of N. Indiana. We are not brave or foolish enough to try any other kind. That sure is a cute little baby girl “mushroom”.
My family in central Ohio hunts for mushrooms (morels) every spring. They are delicious battered and friend and cooked with scrambled eggs. I love Sarah’s dress and Baby Listens. 🙂 We read that book often around our home. -Maria
I don’t like to eat mushrooms, but I love to observe them in the woods! Love Sarah’s dress, and that you made it for her. She is a little woodland fairy in these pictures- so cute!
little miss mushroom is soooo cute! and, getting so big! wow! i love mushrooms too, and have on rare occasions eaten morels..they are such a delicacy in my mind. since marrying me, my husband is now also a mushroom lover; before me and my cookin’ tho’ he would not eat them! i’m kinda pleased that i’ve been able to get him to like a new food like that! 😉 happy tuesday, and i hope n pray your week without the hubs is going well…♥~Rachel
I wouldn’t eat the ones in your pictures, but we love to eat morel and “snakehead” mushrooms that we find in the woods ~ been eating them since I was a little girl and I’m still here to tell about it ~ they are delicious!!!!!!!!!!!
oh what a little sweetie in that dress! You did a good job on it, what talent!
Cute , cute Sarah and cute dress!! My aunt and cousins go mushroom hunting every spring and I ‘ve eaten and lived to tell about it.. They are really good!
that dress against those leaves is amazing! Sarah is beautiful no matter what but she really “pops” against the foilage!
What a cute dress!
That dress is adorable on your sweet baby!I love mushrooms too, but only the grocery store kind..lol!
Great shots of your wee one amongst natures beauty. The little dress is just perfect for these shots. :)You are such a sweet mommy. Thanks for sharing your photo’s hun!{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}
Sweet, she looks like a little wood nyph.
I’m not a mushroom lover, but I have some friends who are. One time she and her son found one and took a teensy-tiny nibble. They got so-o-o-o sick and ended up in the hospital. She told me later she thought they were going on to Glory!
She is so cute! Love that nature study book. I am not a huge fan of eating mushrooms, however, I do find them interesting. We have seen a lot this summer in our yard. Happy Day to you. =)
A cute dress 🙂 I’ve never eaten a wild mushroom, I prefer the grocery store kind – not interested in the risk…
just darling 🙂 🙂
I am an avid morel mushroom hunter. Morels are easy to distinguish, and there is absolutely nothing that compares to their taste. I’d like to learn to distinguish more mushrooms, but I want to ‘shroom with someone who knows what they are doing.
Little miss mushroom is so cute. I love the 2nd pic of her on the forest floor! I would eat her right up! It is fun seeing your sewing project on her.Mushrooms are supposed to help boost immunity, another plus. We like them in stir fry or in salad.We made mushroom prints of the caps before. I will have to look up how we did that as they turned out great.
Hi Shanda It didn’t take me that long to stop by again this time ;->Schuler’s Books carries a book all about mushrooms. It shows up close pictures of every type of mushroom there is and then lists all kinds of info. about it, including whether it’s edible or not. We had given a copy of it to a friend after having ‘borrowed’ their cottage in the woods. He was/is ecstatic about the book!! Learned the mushrooms they had ever so many of at the house they had just moved out of were edible…I enjoyed reading about your visiting great-grandma. That is the kind of grandma I want to be!!! Well, have you found any ‘trouble’ to get into while hubby’s gone? snicker, snicker …. your friend,Cheryl B.http://thebzhousethatlovebuilt.blogspot.com
Don’t you just feel so creative and smart to have made Sarah a dress? Such a sense of accomplishment, to know you did it yourself! 🙂 She’s growing and getting cuter and cuter….will needs lots and lots of sweet baby dresses as the months fly by.I look and look for morels but never find them. However, I eat them when cooked by our neighbors, who always seem to have better mushroom-hunting skills than I.There is also a fall mushroom here called Hen of the Woods that our neighbors adore….but it looks too fungus-y for my taste.Keep sewing–although I can’t imagine when you find the time!
Hi Shanda,While I don’t at all enjoy eating mushrooms, in spite of many attempts to teach myself to like them, I did enjoy the pictures in your post. You are a bit of a wonder woman, sewing at this time in your life, but I am sure it feels good. Katie and Sophie once had matching outfits made out of mushroom print from Gymboree.Thinking of you especially this week . . .loveChristie
Little Miss Sarah is tooooo cute with that dress on in the woods! Wild mushrooms are so good!! I have lived to tell about it!!
I worked with a nurse years ago who ate wild mushrooms and ended up in the hospital very sick. Her husband was a science professor at the college where I graduated. You’d think he would have advised her not to do it!Your baby is beautiful!
You are amazing! I was going to beg you to let me borrow it so Ethie would have something to wear that YOU made but Ethie will be much larger! It is such a perfect PERFECT dress!!!!
The mushroom in the first picture looks like it’s golden. I love the way you were inspired by mushrooms to make the dress and take pictures. I love this!