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life (in general)
I’ve lost my posting mojo lately. But I have a good explanation. In fact, it was good to finally have an explanation for the lack of creativity, lack of energy, lack of ‘getupandgo’, lack of emotional stability. I have a very important work in progress going on….I’m pregnant!
I’m just at the very beginning stages, only about two months along, I’m guessing. I still have yet to find a doctor to get that official due date. But I’m guessing early April. I have had the best luck with doctors for Emma and Mary’s births. I’m hoping I’ll find another wonderful doctor here, as well. I’ve had each of my daughter’s born in a different state, Emma-Illinois, Mary-Wisconsin, now this baby will be a Maryland babe. I hope I don’t have to cover any more of the country after this. It would be nice to have the same doctor twice, you know!
So, how am I feeling? Medium. Some days, I don’t even feel pregnant. I’m full of energy, in a great mood. Other days, I can barely get the energy to make myself and the girls a bowl of cereal. Ahhh, the first trimester. This has definitely been an emotional pregnancy. Before I found out I was pregnant, I was about ready to sign myself up for counselling! And I’m sure Dan was ready to sign me up for it, too. I can’t count how many times I heard him desperately say, "I just don’t know where all this is coming from!?" as I cried about some drama that I was sure was effecting the stability of our lives. Anway, I’ve settled down now…settled down into tiredness coupled with pure excitement over another life growing inside me.
In the meantime, I’ve been sticking to easy, no brainer sewing projects with fulfilling results–CURTAINS! I’ve gone a little curtain crazy, I suppose. It started with emma’s room when Angela of Colorfool, graciously offered me some of her vintage fabric and sheets for the project. She showed me her stash, and let me PICK what I wanted!! She sent so much, I’ve been able to stretch it into two projects:
First some curtains for Emma’s room. Brown and white gingham with Angela’s fabric border at the bottom:
A cubby in the living room–more of angela’s fabric and some binding at the bottom:
And a kitchen window…now orange and white gingham.
Mary’s room is next….it’s amazing what a little color in your windows can do for the soul.
I’ve lost my posting mojo lately. But I have a good explanation. In fact, it was good to finally have an explanation for the lack of creativity, lack of energy, lack of ‘getupandgo’, lack of emotional stability. I have a very important work in progress going on….I’m pregnant!
I’m just at the very beginning stages, only about two months along, I’m guessing. I still have yet to find a doctor to get that official due date. But I’m guessing early April. I have had the best luck with doctors for Emma and Mary’s births. I’m hoping I’ll find another wonderful doctor here, as well. I’ve had each of my daughter’s born in a different state, Emma-Illinois, Mary-Wisconsin, now this baby will be a Maryland babe. I hope I don’t have to cover any more of the country after this. It would be nice to have the same doctor twice, you know!
So, how am I feeling? Medium. Some days, I don’t even feel pregnant. I’m full of energy, in a great mood. Other days, I can barely get the energy to make myself and the girls a bowl of cereal. Ahhh, the first trimester. This has definitely been an emotional pregnancy. Before I found out I was pregnant, I was about ready to sign myself up for counselling! And I’m sure Dan was ready to sign me up for it, too. I can’t count how many times I heard him desperately say, "I just don’t know where all this is coming from!?" as I cried about some drama that I was sure was effecting the stability of our lives. Anway, I’ve settled down now…settled down into tiredness coupled with pure excitement over another life growing inside me.
In the meantime, I’ve been sticking to easy, no brainer sewing projects with fulfilling results–CURTAINS! I’ve gone a little curtain crazy, I suppose. It started with emma’s room when Angela of Colorfool, graciously offered me some of her vintage fabric and sheets for the project. She showed me her stash, and let me PICK what I wanted!! She sent so much, I’ve been able to stretch it into two projects:
First some curtains for Emma’s room. Brown and white gingham with Angela’s fabric border at the bottom:
A cubby in the living room–more of angela’s fabric and some binding at the bottom:
And a kitchen window…now orange and white gingham.
Mary’s room is next….it’s amazing what a little color in your windows can do for the soul.
art with children
A little flashback art project this week with the girls. I remember painting rocks when we were younger, and even remember a few handpainted rock doorstops scattered around our house.
Last week the girls and I traipsed down to the stream for some large smooth rocks that would be good for a little painting. Many more rocks came home in our basket, but they were secretly weeded out…
We finally got around to scrubbing the rocks off and painting them early this week.
It’s funny doing art projects with children. Oftentimes, I go into them with big, glorious plans for how the finished project should look. And what is usually being dreamed up in my mind is something far too complicated and controlled for a carefree two and four-year old. This project reminded me that it’s just fun to create. to paint. to doodle. to have no plan. no required outcome. no step by step instructions. the process–from wading into a cold stream to pick the perfect rocks, to swirling colors of paint in a dish and realizing they just turn grey on the brush, to arranging the rocks in a row on the porch–is far more important than the finished product.
(love the big, crusty cut on her knee…she’s been maintaing these all summer)
And you know what else is important?
Putting on a pair of pink stripey socks, your sister’s too big riding boots, and clicking around the house all morning long.
A little flashback art project this week with the girls. I remember painting rocks when we were younger, and even remember a few handpainted rock doorstops scattered around our house.
Last week the girls and I traipsed down to the stream for some large smooth rocks that would be good for a little painting. Many more rocks came home in our basket, but they were secretly weeded out…
We finally got around to scrubbing the rocks off and painting them early this week.
It’s funny doing art projects with children. Oftentimes, I go into them with big, glorious plans for how the finished project should look. And what is usually being dreamed up in my mind is something far too complicated and controlled for a carefree two and four-year old. This project reminded me that it’s just fun to create. to paint. to doodle. to have no plan. no required outcome. no step by step instructions. the process–from wading into a cold stream to pick the perfect rocks, to swirling colors of paint in a dish and realizing they just turn grey on the brush, to arranging the rocks in a row on the porch–is far more important than the finished product.
(love the big, crusty cut on her knee…she’s been maintaing these all summer)
And you know what else is important?
Putting on a pair of pink stripey socks, your sister’s too big riding boots, and clicking around the house all morning long.
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Things have been very quiet lately on this blog haven’t they? The end of summer has felt very busy around here. I’m also getting ready for my mother-in-law’s visit later this week. The piles of laundry are ridiculous. really, they are. But we’re working on it.
I got my first batch of buttons and pendants back from my work with the workshop program at the community college. There is definitely a learning curve involved–finding new clay, new glazes, new kiln…So this batch turned out a little differently from my past work. I’m still pleased with some of it, but I did have to put a disappointingly large pile of things (almost all my owl buttons. boo!) in the "seconds bowl". I’m not sure what I’ll do with them. For now they are serving as currency for Mary and Emma’s ‘grocery store’.
The clay this time was a little bit redder and lighter so everything has a different feel, at least to me.
This was the first time I worked with some imprints on my buttons and pendants. This set has a blue green wash of color over the print. They look extrememly shiny in this picture. Some of that is the sun, but they are a little glassy.
And a few pendants came out nicely, too. They remind me of robin’s eggs–the blue color flecked with specks of brown.
These and others will be up in my etsy shop sometime this week. As always, if you are on my mailing list, you’ll get the heads up first.
Off to change that laundry…..we’re making progress, we’re making progress…..
Things have been very quiet lately on this blog haven’t they? The end of summer has felt very busy around here. I’m also getting ready for my mother-in-law’s visit later this week. The piles of laundry are ridiculous. really, they are. But we’re working on it.
I got my first batch of buttons and pendants back from my work with the workshop program at the community college. There is definitely a learning curve involved–finding new clay, new glazes, new kiln…So this batch turned out a little differently from my past work. I’m still pleased with some of it, but I did have to put a disappointingly large pile of things (almost all my owl buttons. boo!) in the "seconds bowl". I’m not sure what I’ll do with them. For now they are serving as currency for Mary and Emma’s ‘grocery store’.
The clay this time was a little bit redder and lighter so everything has a different feel, at least to me.
This was the first time I worked with some imprints on my buttons and pendants. This set has a blue green wash of color over the print. They look extrememly shiny in this picture. Some of that is the sun, but they are a little glassy.
And a few pendants came out nicely, too. They remind me of robin’s eggs–the blue color flecked with specks of brown.
These and others will be up in my etsy shop sometime this week. As always, if you are on my mailing list, you’ll get the heads up first.
Off to change that laundry…..we’re making progress, we’re making progress…..
