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waft

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my 8 yr old son

(who wants to be a mathematical scientist or a famous inventor)

IMG_5241shadebrought me home

a gift today:

his

first attempt

at weaving.

i have

this feeling

 that someday,

when he’s

learned the technical

terms to explain,

he’ll give me

the fuller details

behind the reason for each color placement and each pattern change…

for now, i love it.

so will the pages of whatever book i choose to ‘mark’ with it.

if you knew this kid, you’d know what i mean,

but this one is out to change the world

one multi-colored strand at a time

or something like that.

don’t say i didn’t

warn you.

‘first’ taken from 4:27-29 of mark.

five-five

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my kids made me crackers.

all by themselves they cut in the shortening,

rolled out the dough, etched the circles, and added a ‘secret’ message.

sj, ez, elsa + t, i ‘heart’ u, too!

IMG_5035satlove how the exclamation mark starts a line,

like the end of the row was an inconvenience for their creativity,

so they just plowed right through it.

yup, those are my kids.

100 percent.

‘heart’ taken from 27:3 in the psalms.

critical mass

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last official day of school vacation.

all my kids seem to want to be in the same place:

working at my desk.

here are the younger two ‘sharing’ the space.

IMG_4200ironically, i’d like to be there too,

but i’ll have to wait until after their bedtime tonight.

so much fun to cram into these daylight hours first.

and off we go.

getting out of our pj’s

would be the best way to start, i suppose…

‘daylight’ taken from 10:27 of matthew.

details

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sketching is not

my best thing.  not by far.

i do it because mags need a picture of what’s in my head.

thing is, i don’t doodle.  i’ve never been one to draw just because i had free time

Scan 1uppedand a paper,  and a pencil.

so my sketches

look like

this

(in ‘real life’,

that turned into

the ‘amperes hat’ for

knitscene, accessories

2013).

unlike me,

my oldest likes to draw.

she adds colors

and textures.

she draws eyes (which i can’t yet and so don’t)

and draws mouths (which are still well beyond my comfort zone).

she is brave in this area of sketching where i am not.

sj sketch collagethat impresses me.

it also makes me think that when she gets

to be an actual grown-up, that there will be no stopping her.

i like that.  a lot.

‘impress’ taken from 6:7 of deuteronomy.

newbie

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my daughter

wants to knit a little.

she feels motivated in spurts.

up until now, garter stitch squares

have been her project of choice.  she says,

‘the short little 16 st rows make me feel like i’m getting somewhere’.

this is teenager nearly instant gratification at its peak.

but, i had just one skein of city tweed aran

and she wanted to knit it.

i talked her into

a hat worked in the round:

simple, slightly slouchy, and just her size.

IMG_4098cropthere were starts and stops.

the circular needles felt fidgety to her,

she’d never done knit and purl stitches in the same row before,

and she had to learn k2tog & ssk from scratch to get through to the top.

IMG_4099crop2but her hat came out great.

so worth the effort to learn all the new stuff.

now she wants to knit chemo caps for the local hospital.

i love my kid.  she’s enthusiasm and caring, talent and 14 all rolled into one.

wait’ll you see her sketches tomorrow.

i could learn a few things

from her already.

‘simple’ taken from 20:10 in 2nd kings.