Posted in home, tagged low key new years party on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hosted a successful dinner, I wowed people with thoughtful handmade knitted goods, and I got full of family visits and great cooking. The house is in relaxo mode. We’ve cleaned up after the many guests, caught up on laundry and the only place that is constant work-in-progress is the dining room craft table.
After a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I hand make about 80% of Christmas Gifts for others, Julia gets a combination of bought and made items.
This year, I made her:
* 1 ugly pink and red dress-up scraf. It is a scarf I would have loved between the ages of 4 – 12. She will adore it. (I made a matching one for [...]
Posted in crafting with children, home on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After an entire evening of freedom of school related reading, I ended up acting very Martha-like. In fact, I got Julia all jazzed for making gum drop suckers for all of her classmates, and the idea came straight from Martha’s December issue.
I slid the gum drops on the sticks and Julia decorated their faces with [...]
Posted in home on December 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Animal Protection paper (all 30 pages of it) was sent to my professor today. What a nice feeling. Now, anticipation of a grade will hit.
But, guilt free knitting, crafting and movie watching awaits me. Just in time for the holidays. Lucky me!
Posted in classroom, tagged Christmas concerts, holiday concerts on December 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Julia’s holiday concert, and it is a suprise. The only thing I was told is she needs to wear brown pants and a brown shirt. My suspicion is she will be a reindeer.
I am sure it will be full of children I don’t know, reciting lines they don’t understand and singing either too loud [...]
Posted in classroom, crafting with children, tagged arctic drama, arctic story drama, creative drama, drama in classroom on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday was the last day of “Mrs. Twigg’s Surprising Suitcase” at the theatre school. We opened the doors to the parents, so they could see what we do every Saturday in the early afternoon.
Our last adventure was to go camping. Unfortunately, along our way to find the perfect camping spot, it started to snow. So, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dream knitting project, handmade gifts, knitting on December 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am going to make this. It will take me a long time, my massage therapist will not like what it does to my left shoulder, and it is the perfect thing to work on all winter.
The baby hat (pictured in previous post) was a hit at the shower. They placed it on Tyson’s head [...]
