Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Julia’s school is closed for parent teacher interviews. We went last night and Julia led us around her classroom and shared all her work with us. We got to bring her lovely wooden snowman home with us.
I was supposed to go to work today, but a series of events gave us a free day together [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged children tea party, creative drama with kids, teaching on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We had extra guests at Sunday’s Tea Party . It must be a dream of many young girls.
We drank Bubblegum tea that I purchased at Ama’s Tea House in Gimli right before my wedding in the summer. It is a mix of dried fruit, flowers and gumballs.
It was a bit of a struggle to get [...]
Posted in birthday parties, classroom, crafting with children, home on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was another busy weekend in the Twigg & Ross household.
Julia spent a large portion the afternoon painting items she loved in the house. Here is she painting a portrait of our cat, dnoddy-oh.
The painting in progress:
On Saturday, I made my brief debut on CJOB radio. I expressed interest in hosting a children’s show on [...]
Posted in Winnipeg events, tagged children and art, subconscious city, Winnipeg Art on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had a great date with Julia last night, we went to The Winnipeg Art Gallery to see the new exhibit, “Subconscious City“. I always find myself more comfortable seeing new work with her at my side. She reminds me to keep myself open to the work and any emotion that arises from it. I [...]
Posted in crafting with children, home on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Valentines Day, like so many things, is filled with much more magic and love through a child’s eyes. As I was putting Julia to bed she told me that she was my Valentine and would be my Valentine tomorrow and has been my Valentine for a long time, except for the day she [...]
Posted in classroom, tagged creative drama, drama, Mrs. Twigg, puppet show on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The students liked their Valentines. We ended up having one girl who did not want to hide in the bear cave and she became the Valentine fairy. She hid all the valentines in the snow and then sprinkled special dust on someone, and one by one they found their Valentine’s in the snow!
Mrs. Twigg’s class [...]
Posted in classroom, crafting with children, tagged drama class, handmade valentine, homemade valetines, sewing, Winnipeg drama class on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is our Valentine drama class. I made each student their own valentine. I just cut out the first letter of their name out of thrifted napkins and sewed them onto felted sweater pieces. Here is a perfect sneak from my cat, Zillah with the Valentines:
And here are all of them.
I am constructing a [...]
Posted in home, thrifting, tagged kenmore sewing machine, thrifting on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I went on a thrift run yesterday and was delighted to find a sewing machine. Mine has been on the fritz lately. I am now the proud owner of a vintage Sears Kenmore machine. I sewed a bit last night and will be taking out a “getting to know your machine” book at the library.
I [...]
