Zman and TBC are officially engaged. Wedding in January!
WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Zman and TBC are officially engaged. Wedding in January!
What's goin' on at CasaS? Well, we're letting the dogs in and out about 50 times a day. I don't get that at all.
But summertime = arts and crafts as far as McKid is concerned. She's been MAKING STUFF.
First, she made jewelry:
That's my necklace you see there. Butterflies and beads. And I'm supposed to wear it every day. If I don't have it on when she gets here, she goes and finds it and puts it on me. I've even agreed to wear it to church on Sunday, which is her birthday. It'll make everyone jealous, I know.
Then we took an empty oatmeal box and turned it into a beautiful canister. Right now it's storing other art supplies. She's anxiously awaiting my finishing up the next box so she can have a matching set:
And we've also finished up two, count 'em two, potholders on our loom. The third one is in progress, as you can tell:
The loops that came with this loom are truly pitiful. Nothing at all like the sturday cotton ones back in my day. (Dating myself immediately!) But they are colorful, and McKid likes them.
We watched a video on weaving with yarn on Youtube, so we think we will try that next. If it works, then McKid will make some sturdier potholders to give as Christmas gifts. We'll see. Patience is an issue around here. And not just for McKid.
But give her a flat space and she will immediately start setting up a writing/art desk. PapaC took his laptop to work today, so his worktable (with wheels!) has become today's creativity office:
LaMa has extra produce to give away. Pretty soon I may have extra ART to give away!
Happy Wednesday, ya'll!
Heard the author, Piers Paul Read, interviewed yesterday on a talk radio show as I was out running errands. The book sounds good, and is available from Ignatius Press. There is also a website for The Death of a Pope.
And here's the review that will make me want to read it:
If you love the Catholic Church, you will probably love this book whether or not you love a good story. If you love a good story, you will probably love this book whether or not you love the Catholic Church. But if you love both the Church and a good story, you will certainly love this book.
-- Peter Kreeft, author, Because God is Real
Anyone read any of his other stuff?
Edited to add: I finally figured out what I had read that he had written! Alive--the book about the survivors of the plane crash in the Andes! Thank heavens. Now it won't rattle around in my head all day.
so which of you mommas would like to try this yummy pattern? the only thing missing is a couple of slices of bacon. of course, with baby on board, you'd have to make mine a double-double-cheese-cheese-burger-burger, please.
Another easy-p crochet pattern. These look so useful! I throw apples in my bag and then just give them to my children all the time. Just like that. All bag germy and banged from cohabitating with whatever else is in there. I think an apple cozy per child will help build my crochet muscles to a hat per child, as well. Or at least embellish some knit hats with crochet...
The pattern is a free download here at Ravelry. You need to be a member, but if you knit or crochet or like patterns and aren't on Ravelry, you need to do that anyway.
I love this pattern. And, LaMa, I think this is the very yarn you are using for your coasters!
Dishcloths are a wonderful thing to make when you are learning to crochet with cottong yarn. They are generally square, so you can tell if you've messed up your pattern along the way. They can be made with a multitude of stitches, so you can practice. And they are small--so they don't use much yarn. And they don't take much time. A perfect project to work on while you're watching a movie or something.
And I love the cotton cloth to wash my face with at night.
Anyway, here's a nice one:
And you can find the pattern here.
And there is a whole page of crocheted cloths (dish and face--though what makes 'em different is a distinction beyond me!).
Pick up your hooks and GO!
with earnest prayers that this poor, miserable soul will hopefully find some peace, this is THE song that turned the smock into a michael jackson fan -- and a fan of minor hedonism -- for a brief moment in time.* this man was living proof that the line between genius and insanity is a mighty fine one.
don't stop 'til you get enough
there's just enough disco flavor with a dash of soul to make this song move anyone with two ears. g'head, take a listen. you know you wanna tap those toes!
*that would be throughout the eighties.
.....and if it doesn't make you tear up, well, you're a stronger person than I am.
Maybe the most heartfelt video of a song I've ever seen.
This morning we're listening to Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. It is FULL of awesome.
Happy Monday, ya'll! I gotta go fold clothes.
'Nuff said.
And what I want to know is this: How long did it take him to figure this out and set it up?
From over at Kickass Classical, one of my new faves.
Today is National Chocolate Pudding Day!
Who's making me some pudding?
I have worked myself nearly to the bone (ha! would that that were true!) this week, trying to catch up on financial work for the parish that has fallen behind following my dad's death in April. One more diocesan report to do this morning, and I will be as caught up as I can be at the moment. At least with reports. Then I can mush forward with my attempt to regularlize my work, going up to the church one day a week to work. Doing that will keep me on track and keep my volunteer work in this area from bleeding over into my house. I'm not sure how this will play out in the summer with the McKid here, but we'll see.
I love my air conditioner guy. He was here when he said he would be, and, thanks be to God, it was only a bad capacitor (whatever that is) and a pound of freon to fix the problem. A little more than $250, and we're back to cool. Or, cool-ish. Hurray for guys who work out in the screaming hot to keep my life nice. There will be a special place in heaven for them. And I hope I get to serve them there. It would be my joy.
This morning the news of Michael Jackson's death was on the front page of our paper. That's not particularly weird. But the headlines were more than an inch tall and his picture took up all the space above the fold. I mean, seriously, it was "war headline" big. Really, Star-Telegram? Really?
I nearly snorted cereal and milk up my nose though, reading the paper this morning. (Now that's an attractive picture, no?) Advertisers have taken to buying stickers that are stuck on the front page of the paper. Today's ad is for a "Seized and Forfeited Assets Auction". And what, you ask, might they be selling? Jewelry seized from narcotics dealers, fine art from Dali, Chagall, Picasso and other flashy items [emphasis mine] to be liquidated piece by piece regardless of cost or value.
Don't you just love that? Dali, Chagall and Picasso are flashy items. I think from here on out, I'm renaming it "Flashy Art Friday" instead of "Fine Art Friday". Whatta ya think?
All the commenters on Amazon were right about Not Buying It by Judith Levine. Her idea is interesting. Her implementation and take on it is frustrating. And I'm already tired of the Bush-bashing, which is her fall back position on everything. Oh, except for the times when her position is "the government ought to pay for everything I want to partake of so it'd be cheap." Sigh. I mush onward, though, 'cause the journey is both interesting and maddening.
A free weekend! Theatre Arlington tonight with my dear PapaC, NOTHING on Saturday (did you hear that? NOTHING!), church and baseball game on Sunday. Doesn't that sound perfect to you? Does to me!
You know the Zman is a good guy when he gets out of bed on his day off school to come and work with the McKid on learning to ride her bike with no training wheels.
That's my boy!
And you can read the rest of the Quick Takes over at Conversion Diary. Go on, it's fun to peep into others' lives!
So, today it may be 103 degrees! While we always hit that temp in the summer, it's really a little early for it. Last year we had a nice summer--it didn't reach 100 until sometime in August, which is pretty unheard of. But on days like today, we are thankful for our sweet air conditioner repair men (Thank you, John!) and for tall glasses of iced whatever, and wonder just how the heck did people do this when there was no air conditioning, no ice, and, heaven forbid, no shorts to wear!!!! If I had to live through this in a long cotton dress? Well, you'd probably have to wrap me up and bury me.
So, we're thinking about WATER. In particular, swimming pool water. And here are two retro prints that capture the essence of the Summas.
And then one of the Summas themselves. You always wanted to see us together, didn't you?
Happy Friday, ya'll!
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