monday : in the thick of it

clay bowl


outside!


eggs

cool math games

godzilla

finishing (other) the sugar eggs



starting the clay eggs


....again!....
(it's been like two weeks now of trying, now, but it seems like seventy-hundred months.... soon, hopefully....)

tattoos

more clay

which is really code name for "Alien Space Creature With Wings On His Head"
-or some such thing, I forget what it's called-

and "Oohhh, right through the heart!"...



more tatts. :)


'puter games

time with Dad.

the daily Artly Pursuits.

issuing invitations to dinner (to Grammie).
"Whaaaa?", then, "I dunno even what we're having for dinner, Madd...."
sigh.

guess we'd best get on that...

we're doin' alright.
glass of microbrew at Mama's elbow.

larder stocked,
icebox filled with fruit-licious goodliness,
(crave, crave, crave, this time of year)
TALL library stack,
sunshine (at 5:37 pm and for the First Time Today hmmph)
crafty cupboards overly-filled

love
and love
and love abounds.

and dinner is planned.
we'll say that's Good Enough, shall we?

Let's do.

Beaded Bowl

We made a beaded bowl today.


We're all about spring pretties in these last (let's hope) cold and gray days of winter.

First we rolled out a 1/2 inch or so thick bit of air-dry clay.

We cut it with a flower cookie cutter, then picked it up and placed it on a piece of plastic, and rolled it out just a bit more, so it would be bigger.


We placed it over a rounded bowl, and put it in the oven on the lowest setting for an hour or a little longer.


When it was somewhat firm, we took it out of the oven, and carefully pried it off of the mold.

We painted our bowl with acrylic paint, and let that dry for a little while.

I got out some small, malleable wire and a needle, and after poking a hole with the needle, I set the wire through the hole.
(Very carefully - the clay isn't dry yet, to allow for easy beading.)

I wrapped the end around the edge of the bowl, and ran the first beads thorough the doubled wire.


We wanted ours not uniform, but sort of breezy and winding, so we didn't string up the beads tightly, but loosely.

We made irregular holes with the needle, and just looped our beads around as we liked.

When we got to the end, we wound the wire around where it began.

Now we just need to let our bowl finish drying for a couple of days!


Cheerful and pretty, I think.

sunday

build.


flat stanleys


talk of Titans
and Hercules.

computer play,

family time,

to lunch.

took the children to an import store,
to things they could see and touch and listen to and ask questions about...


aftican drums, stones, turkish cloths, art from India, Buddhas, instruments, prayer flags...

to the Capital!


we're hosting Flat Stanley (he usually lives here), so we thought we'd start with our State Capital.



right next to the capital is Memory Grove, which was verra tempting to the children, so we ventured in to run and play.





to home,

and computer play.

an' supper
an' Percy Jackson.

that'll do!

the soul of sunday

what's the soul of your sunday?

a space for moments,
snapshots,
or entire days of Shine.

dabble, dabble, coil, and rabble

we've been dabbling.

dabbling in creativity.


dabbling in and with friends

dabbling in imagination

dabbling in taking care



dabbling in soul work.


hmmm... coiling, too.

winding and stretching and turning and spiraling.


seems to be the season for days and thoughts such as these,
in between the shortest days of winter and the yet-to-be-announced arrival of spring.

it's like we're just occupying ourselves, these last few days, waiting for the party to begin.

guess we should stop waiting and just start dancin'....

Saturday's Artist

Welcome to Saturday's Artist!
It's a weekly joining and celebration of every kind of creativity. I hope you'll join us in celebrating this wonderful part of ourselves.
Show us where in the past week you've been shining your artistic, magnificent light.

Something this week that fed your spirit.
An outstanding photograph.
A day of mad painting.
A new yarn discovered that has sparked something fabulous for you.

The only requirement is that it is your favorite artistic Create! of the week!

(If you'd like to post a link so your readers might join in Saturday's Artist,

we would all love to share with them.)

Linking is only open each week until Tuesday morning!

wednesday : on a sigh

making cleaners.mmmm. :) and the recipes here if you're interested.

blossoms shedding husks into a pitcher of tea cooling on the patio!



hat making.

scope making.

pancake making.
all by himself again.



maddie masters cutting a very long and very straight line.

(quite proud of herself was she. "Mama! Look at this! Guess which one I cut?")

skatin'. with ski goggles and skate helmet.

birdhouses!

dino play.
(computer and movies)

dough.
love hands in dough.
mine, theirs... doesn't matter.


a visit on the phone with Papa and cousin Jakub.

Madd finished her spring basket.


roll and twist (pretzel yumminess).

go!

mmmmm.

math animals.


turtle races (between two turtles).

Draw and Write
much time doing this today.


i dunno what else.
it's been a beautiful, slow, meandering sort of day.
as always, i'll take it, and say Good Enough.

'night, then.