The Gnomes Home

Sept. 7th Show

Thank you for joining us for our first show broadcast at our new home at Blog Talk Radio.  As promised, here are the verses we shared on the air:

Anyway 

by Mother Teresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

Also we shared our morning verse that we start school off with each day:

There lives in me an image
of all God wants for me
until I have become it
my heart can not be free.

This is a Steiner verse that has taken on many forms in our home over the years, words changed to fit our needs. 

September 7th's show is available for download at our station.

From our home to yours...

Melisa & Erik Nielsen
Owners
A Little Garden Flower & Gnomes Home Radio
www.alittlegardenflower.com

Gnomes Home Radio Show

For the past few months, we have been working on a solution for The Gnomes Home radio that is both user-friendly and family-friendly.  To keep the radio show free for listeners, we have tested out a few different sites but in doing so we had to compromise on standards.  We have decided that is just not how we want the show run.  We want an environment that works for the live listener and also someone coming back for archives.  To achieve these goals, we have partnered with BlogTalk Radio to give you the best internet radio experience possible.  

One of the benefits of our new home is that there is a permanent call-in number for listeners to ask a question on the air.  Another advantage is the ability to have guests on the show who live in different cities.  We are also working on one more bonus we think you will really like - you will eventually be able to download episodes as podcasts through iTunes.  We feel like these will greatly increase your enjoyment of the show, as well as, make it easier to access.

 

In order to make it possible for us to continue to bring this show to you, we are asking for your assistance.  A $5 contribution by each listener will help offset the charges incurred for hosting The Gnomes Home radio through BlogTalkRadio.  We will make the radio show available to you as long as it is financially viable for us.  We depend on you, the Waldorf community, for support and in return we give back with services such as this, blogging, video tutorials, webinars, and an online forum.  We want Waldorf homeschooling to be accessible to everyone.  Please let us know if you have a request for a show topic.

You can make a donation to the Gnomes Home Radio by visiting our store.

Additionally, to offset the cost of utilizing the site for our station we will be accepting sponsorships from businesses or community groups.  We are offering 10 introductory spots at $10 each.  After that, the cost will be $25 per sponsorship slot.  One paid sponsorship spot entitles your business or group to two "commercials" per show, as well as, a linked listing at the Gnomes Home Radio station on Blog Talk Radio and our radio show blog.  Sponsors which are relevant to the theme of a show will be given priority. You can purchase the sponsorships from our store as well.

To celebrate our new home, we will be loading some of our favorite shows this weekend.  You can log in Saturday beginning at 10am MST to listen to shows and view the scheduled line up.  You will also be able to download them to your computer and listen to them at your leisure.  On Monday, September 7th, we'll broadcast our first show from our new home.  The topic is "The First Weeks of School."  Don't forget our book study on "Rhythms of Learning" by Roberto Trostli.  We'll be chatting about chapter  4 in the second part of Monday's show.  Be sure to tune in Monday morning at 6 am MST.  You will need to sign up for an account with Blog Talk Radio to access the show and all of it's features like live chat and calling in.  

Bookmark our new station page at:

www.blogtalkradio.com/alittlegardenflower

Access to the Gnomes Home archives will change as we move to our new home.  At any given time, there will be several recent shows available for download at the Gnomes Home Radio station.  All other episodes will be available for download for $2.  You can visit our store to purchase the shows and a link will be sent for you to then download them.  They will be available in mp3 format.

Be sure to visit Blog Talk Radio this weekend to get registered so you are able to listen on Monday!  Just go to their website and sign up for an account, it is free.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com

We look forward to sharing this new route on the journey with you!

Blessings,

Melisa & Erik Nielsen

Owners, A Little Garden Flower & Gnomes Home Radio

www.ALittleGardenFlower.com

December 19th - webinar painting

On December 19th, we changed things up and turned our radio show into a webinar!  Our dear friend, Tammy, found this inspiration painting somewhere on the web and we thought it would be perfect for the Solstice, Nativity, rebirth.  There are so many ideas that this painting inspired.  The segments here are each about ten minutes long.  Part one and the first half of part two focus on painting products, mixing paint, and several other simple paintings that you can do with your children.  The third part is our group painting based on our inspiration piece.  

   

After the show, I was inspired to paint this:

  

This is the same techniques we did in part 3 substituting blue and yellow and adding fairy wings.

We stock a variety of painting and other art supplies in our shop.  Visit A Little Garden Flower today!