Heb. 4:12

Be wise, my son, and make my heart rejoice, that I may make a reply to him that is taunting me.
- Proverbs 27:11

Categories

Current Reads


As You Like ItWilliam Shake­speare

The Adven­tures of Huck­le­berry FinnMark Twain



Charlotte’s WebE.B. White


The Call of the Wild(G.I.C.) — Jack Lon­don




Charlotte’s WebE.B. White


The Adven­tures of Buster BearThorn­ton Burgess


~READ ALOUD~
The Teacher
Beau­ti­ful Sto­ries from Shake­speare for Chil­drenEdith Nes­bit


*READ ALONG*
Charlotte’s Web -E.B. White

Where I hang...

Fine Arts Study

COMPOSER
Anto­nio Vivaldi
Baroque Clas­si­cal

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ARTIST
Vin­cent van Gogh
Winslow Homer

Impres­sion­ists

Past Reads

#1 Son
East of Eden
Around the World in 80 Days
Jour­ney to the Bot­tom­less Pit
By The Great Horn Spoon
The Nar­ra­tive of the Life of Fred­er­ick Dou­glass
13 at Din­ner
Up From Slav­ery
To Kill A Mock­ing­bird
Croc­o­dile Tears
Water­ship Down


Flower Picker
Frog and Toad are Friends
Stu­art Lit­tle
Tom Sawyer (G.I.C.)
Huck­le­berry Finn (G.I.C)


Face
Won­ders of the Pond
Tom Sawyer — (G.I.C.)
My Book of Bible Sto­ries
Stu­art Lit­tle
Huck­le­berry Finn (G.I.C.)


The Mom
Sarah, Plain and Tall
The Adven­tures of Grand­fa­ther Frog
The Bird-woman of The Lewis & Clark Expedition

On The Watch!

Jan­u­ary 25, 2010- The Spider’s Silk — g08 Jan — Did you know that the spider’s silk, if enlarged to the size of a foot­ball field is strong enough to stop a jumbo jet in flight?!!! Awe­some! Novem­ber 5, 2009- The Raven — What Makes it Dif­fer­ent — g97 1/8 pg. 22 — We learned that Ravens have a warped sense of humor.
Octo­ber 30, 2009 — The Lit­tle Gen­tle­man in the Black Vel­vet Suit — g95 2/22 pg. 18–19: an arti­cle about Moles! Very Inter­est­ing

2009-2010

  • School Started:
    29 weeks, 4 days ago

Old Stuff

Crochet Projects

We’re turning into Knit Wits!!!

For those of you who may have fol­lowed my cro­chet blog, (which was recently merged with this one), you know my plight about learn­ing to knit.

Well, Flower Picker has been pre­tend­ing to knit with two pen­cils… no yarn — she’s just rub­bing two pen­cils together at the tips. :-{

So, I decided that would be our hand­i­craft for […]

This week, so far…

This week was a 1/2 day school week.  We have a two-day assem­bly this week­end, and I always like to sew new things for the girls and I to wear.  I made myself a skirt and shirt (that’s a first for me!) and I made a skirt and dress for Face.  Flower Picker was in […]

Sew N Show

I wanted to show off the dress-up dresses I made for the girls last month.

Noth­ing fancy, but they don’t seem to care!

Aw, the latest…

Well, for starters, I’ve added a new cat­e­gory — Sewing!

Yup, yup, this cro­cheter sews, too!  Well, let me rephrase -

I have owned a sewing machine for 17 years.  In that 17 years, the most sewing I’ve done to date, was cloth dia­pers.  I sewed dia­pers for 3 years.  I never had proper instruc­tion, so most […]

NOT a hobby!">Crochet is NOT a hobby!

It’s a skill!

I was watch­ing an old episode of Knit & Cro­chet Today and there was an inter­view with Nikki Epstein.  She made the com­ment, “Knit­ting isn’t a hobby; it’s a skill!”

That rang bells for me.  It’s true.  Cro­chet­ing (and knit­ting) are skills.  You have to really work to hone those skills.  The more you hone, the […]

The coolest idea ever!!

Loi­ter­ing online –that’s what I call “surf­ing”.  Surf­ing requires some sort of skill or strat­egy — loi­ter­ing is clearly just hangin out some­where with no real pur­pose, and that’s how I internet.

Any­way, as I was loi­ter­ing, I stum­bled onto this:
Make your own bag handles

Now, as a cro­cheter, I have found, and fell in love with […]

Stone Soup, Anyone?

A friend of mine, who works at our local library, is read­ing the book, Stone Soup, to a group of small chil­dren.
She said she’d love to have props on hand as she read the story, so my son and I cro­cheted her some veg­eta­bles for her Stone Soup.

We made:
tomato
peas
green beans
radish
red bell pep­per (not pic­tured)
car­rot
gar­lic
egg­plant
cab­bage
turnip (not pictured)

I can’t believe it!!

I’m Knit­ting!
I’m actu­ally mak­ing some­thing that will amount to some­thing larger than a dish­cloth, but with more shape than a scarf!!

The first ques­tion is… what?
I found this cute pat­tern, it looked easy enough — didn’t require cir­cu­lar nee­dles, and I have the size it DOES call for.  I’ve been want­ing to make a tank for my […]

Many Tanks!

Yay! I’ve just fin­ished up my old­est DD’s tank top.

DH says it’s too wide, so I see some alter­ing in my future, but she loves it!

She loves the color — which is awe­some, since she is the one that picked it out.
She loves how it feels against her skin (Another […]

Puttering Along

I’ve been work­ing on a few things at once lately.

I’ve started my Banana Bay top, which I’m lov­ing!
I’m also work­ing on a cute tank top for my old­est DD.
I’ve used the pat­tern before, but this time, I’m using Knit Picks Crayon yarn, and it’s YUMM-O soft! Even DD stated, “Hey, it’s soft, so there’s […]

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