{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Yesterday I cast on and frogged the hat pattern I mentioned in last weeks yarn along post. Apparently that yarn did not want to be that hat. So today I think I have found an alternative pattern.
I'll keep you posted on how that goes.
The former hat had cables in it and while I have worked with cables before apparently my brain did not remember it as well as I thought. So, thankfully I had my stitch'n bitch book to refer to. I was lucky enough to receive it as a birthday gift from my friend Carol.
My other read, that arrived yesterday from my friend Dana, is Everyday Blessings
I wanted to borrow it from someone after finding a link to their list of "12 exercises for Mindful Parenting"; Dana was nice enough to gift me with a copy. Not pictured is the third book in the Percy Jackson series. I finished the second book. I'm really enjoying reading these along with my 12yo. It is fun to discuss books with the child who used to cry "Not chapter books" when she was younger and I was reading to her older sister. She was never forced to listen...she just did not like the absence of pictures. And if she did not like chapter books still that would be fine...but I'm glad she does.
Happy Wednesday!
So here at this late hour is my photo. I am reading the Percy Jackson series with my oldest two girls. The scarf is the Harry Potter scarf I linked to in the "On the needles" post. Not much longer and I will be shipping it off to it's new owner.
When searching for things to do I came across a cool recycled project.
Here is what our process looked like
The view from our window while we worked
Icecream while we waited for the paint to dry
And then I lost the kids after the ice cream. Or rather they decided reenacting the Strawberry shortcake movie they watched the other day was better than gluing on painted egg carton pieces.
So I finished things up
And then I learned what happens when you forget to put the bottle of acrylic paint away.
So, find some valentines crafts to work on over the next few weeks, just be sure to put away the paint when you are done.
First there was Christmas Tree Day
Christmas #1 happened the week before Christmas when our friend Rhonda came to visit.
Zoe with her Miss Rhonda
Then there was gingerbread house construction in all forms
We welcomed winter and thanked God for bringing us through one season and into another and for extra minutes of light in the day.
Christmas #2 was ours plus gifts from my family down south.
And Christmas #3 was up north in the even more frozen tundra with my husbands family
What's this? An empty pickle jar? It's what I always...wait a minute this isn't really my gift..is it?
Brothers
Even our dog Mazie came with us.
Greatgrandma with Z
All the girls
So, what have you got on the needles or in your crafting line up? Right now I have a Gryffindor scarf on the needles and am about to cast on for a hat (scroll down and click on "cabled" on the left margin) for my friend Rhonda. I also have one bowl of a set of felted nesting bowls just about finished. Once those are done I am going to turn my attention to a shawl for my grandmother. I cast on for a shawl weeks ago but couldn't figure out how to follow the pattern after line 22 and was not liking how the yarn was working up.
I firmly believe that you can choose a yarn and start knitting with it only to find that it wasn’t intended to be what you started knitting. Are you following me? I imagine it is similar to what a potter or sculptor might experience when they begin working with their medium. They may have one thing in mind but the clay or marble may have something completely different that it wants to be. The same goes for yarn I believe.
Then there are my sewing projects. Tomorrow night Emi and I will go to the library to start on these http://www.purlbee.com/fabric-window-valentines/. We are having a mommy daughter date and she wants to work on sewing. The library is the perfect place to go because it is first and foremost free, warm and who doesn’t like to work on cool projects while surrounded by thousands of books??
I also have a knitting needle case in the works which , if it is going to get finished, is going to require that I find a hidden sewing room supplied similarly to Anna Maria Horner’s where I can sprawl everything out(yes I said sprawl) and get it all done. I am actually anxious for it to be completed because the outer cover is a pieced quilt square that my great grandmother made years ago. As well as having a few or her sewn and crocheted pieces I am also blessed to own her sewing machine, a 1950s singer that sews beautifully and is in desperate need for a room all its own. I must confess that in the years that I have had it it has not produced the same flawless garments that my Nana made. From the stories my grandmother has shared I know she was an excellent seamstress. Her talent helped to take care of her six children, that she raised on her own, in a time that was not really kind to divorced women.
Then there is my small canvas and fabric artwork that is in process. I have one canvas done and the other is 90% there.
I also finished a scrapbook project last night as well but am not able to share any photos just yet. Once the recipient of the gift has seen it then I will share.
So, how about you? What creative things are you working on now?
*Just to make things clear.....while I have all of these going I don’t get to work on them everyday and when I do my house falls apart and that is just fine. Life is too short to not be creative. I promise that a clean house is not what gets you into heaven. If it was I would be SOL!
Since it is the beginning of a new year I thought I would get back to blogging with an update post on the girls. I hope to be a better blogger this year since I have discovered that I do have family members that read here. J
I will start with the youngest and work my way up to the oldest, just to mix things up a bit.
Miss Z
Ace
Emi
Sisi
Aly
And all of them challenge me, in a good way, to be a better mom and friend. I am grateful to them for all the joy, insight, and honesty they bring into my life. I would not be the person I am today if it weren’t for them.
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