Something sweet for your Friday

cookies from http://www.hampdenparkcoop.com/

mango with sweet rice at http://truethairestaurant.com/

Turkey Bingo

The elementary school we work at hosts a turkey bingo night every year for families to have the opportunity to win a full Thanksgiving dinner. This was my first year going, and it was so great to see everyone together, playing nicely, and having a good time. Plus who doesn't love those classic bingo boards!

Making Monday: Quilt Square

I recently saw someone who's sister had sewn a log cabin onto the back of her fall coat. Well I got inspired and made up a quilt square of my own to sew onto my coat. I'm quite happy with the result. It is so much fun to pull out the scraps of fabric and make them into yet another thing.

No Buy Black Friday 2

We are no longer in a No Buy Year.  However, this Black Friday will also have no purchases.  Why?  Simply that stuff doesn't make you happy; that stuff is made with resources and then is thrown away;  that gifts do not require stuff; that humans were never meant to wait in line to buy stuff they don't need; and that complacency will never lead to progress.  Give it a try.

Yum

May all your meals be delightful.

Making Monday: Poem

This poem was number 9 in my project to write 52 poems:

My language,

can not be explained through yours.

It has been constructed by my life,

my vocabulary has been built up by years

of reading, and listening, and watching

As my passport fills with stamps

each new location fills

my ears with a lack of understanding,

my mouth with a need for communication,

my eyes with the beauty, of overwhelming newness

            of physically being where I am, every second I am alive.

My language

is a gathering

of the people I have meet

of all the sounds those around me have created 

and the gestures that punctuated them.

Photos from the Week

Top to Bottom: 1) pear for the pie/tart 2) Leftover pie dough filled with pear and blueberries 3) going out to eat with my mom 4) the first restaurant of my 12 new restaurant goal 5) I cut 10inches of hair off to donate to locks of love! 6) roommate waiting outside for the gas company

The Finished List

22 Things to do Before I turn 23
1. Work in a 'sketchbook' every Wednesday night.
2. Donate hair to Locks of Love.
3. Get a children book published.
4. Ride a train.
5. Get a second tattoo.
6. Take a dance class.
7. Show my art in a public space.
8. Take part in Northern Spark.
9. Show Infinity a Chile sunset in the mountains.
10. Cut all monetary ties to parents.
11. Visit the ocean.
12. Make $500 from my art.
13. Pay back the $800.
14. Properly learn to ride a bike.
15. Hug a Redwood tree.
16. The Kentucky Trip (Wigwam Village & Dinosaur World)
17. Complete the 52 Poems Project.
18. Make a rocking chair.
19. Give arts & crafts leadership at Camp Quest MN.
20. Go to the LOTR marathon at the Riverview.
21. Be vegan for a month.
22. The Billboard Project. 

23 Things To Do Before I Turn 24

1. grow cherry tomatoes in the backyard.
2. take the train.
3. teach a class not at Bancroft.
4. make jelly/jam.
5. keep an invetory of my little free library.
6. finish that sweater!
7. get published under my name or a pen name.
8. have an art showing.
9. learn three songs on the keyboard.
10. eat at twelve new resturants.
11. juggle.
12. play four games a month.
13. bake twelve new pies.
14. give thanks once a week.
15. get my name off of my father's company.
16. successfully dye yarn.
17. go to Seattle.
18. go on a date once a month with Infinite.
19. set the table once a fortnight.
20. use Spoonflower.
21. more photos of people: twelve I really like.
22. install and stock little free library.
23. keep volunteer committee on schedule.

Little Free Library

We have a Little Free Library coming to our yard, and to best be ready for it we have started to collect books for it. One of the goals, other than getting people free books, through building a community, is to keep track of the books. To do this we used some stamps that we had make years ago and starting stamping every book in our growing collection. Within each stamp we wrote "LFL 3757", LFL for Little Free Library, and 3757 is our number. We will let you know when it appears!

Empty Bowl

The unveiling of my bowl, from Empty Bowls this year.

Making Monday: Patches

It was time to update the jeans with some new patches. Along with reinforcing older patches I spiced it up this round with a bright cotton, properly hemmed, fun patch!

Lovely New Patches

 

We have been working on  a new project involving stencils, which turned into dumping the stencils and using simple fabric markers instead. They feature some, if I do say so myself, very cute drawings. This one is done on an old jeans pocket!