Tuesday, July 17
Tuesday, January 31
Angry Face
Me: Laine, you cannot pull the dogs tail!
Laine: (grumpily sits down on the floor and gives me an amazingly angry face.)
Me: Oh! Are you angry at Mommy?
Laine: Yes I am. My angry. Huuuuge Angry! (waves her arms very wide, to show how hugely angry.)
Me: Is that your angry face? Are you making angry face at Mommy?
Laine: (cracking a smile) Yes. Angry face.
Me: (grabbing my phone to snap a photo) Make the face again for me. Huuuuge angry for Mommy!
Laine: this...
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Ideas and Resolutions - Stolen
1. Get a library card.
2. Drink my coffee black.
3. Go into the unknown, it will expand my known.
4. Read more, especially things I disagree with.
5. Learn something from everyone.
6. Survive on little, to prove I can.
7. Do what I say I will.
8. Eat more protien.
9. Keep truth-tellers close to me.
10. Nobody likes a know-it-all, don't be one.
11. Read biographies.
12. Don't buy "stuff".
13. Be humble and curious.
14. Be as useful as I can in as many circumstances as possible.
15. Make my home a place where I feel safe.
16. Help people who have never helped me, and can't.
17. Remember who helps me and return the help with twice as much value.
18. Get a tattoo, don't worry about regrets.
19. Meet with friends more often than I think I have to.
20. Walk more.
21. Get to know my neighbors.
22. Apologize more that I need to.
23. Buy some art.
24. Get a good haircut an color.
25. Be like Jesus, not his followers.
26. Give away my best work for free.
27. Bring a bottle of wine.
stolen
2. Drink my coffee black.
3. Go into the unknown, it will expand my known.
4. Read more, especially things I disagree with.
5. Learn something from everyone.
6. Survive on little, to prove I can.
7. Do what I say I will.
8. Eat more protien.
9. Keep truth-tellers close to me.
10. Nobody likes a know-it-all, don't be one.
11. Read biographies.
12. Don't buy "stuff".
13. Be humble and curious.
14. Be as useful as I can in as many circumstances as possible.
15. Make my home a place where I feel safe.
16. Help people who have never helped me, and can't.
17. Remember who helps me and return the help with twice as much value.
18. Get a tattoo, don't worry about regrets.
19. Meet with friends more often than I think I have to.
20. Walk more.
21. Get to know my neighbors.
22. Apologize more that I need to.
23. Buy some art.
24. Get a good haircut an color.
25. Be like Jesus, not his followers.
26. Give away my best work for free.
27. Bring a bottle of wine.
stolen
Monday, January 9
Step by Step - Tree of Life Pendant
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| Twelve sections of 12" long 24 gauge wire on a two inch steel ring, wrapped from the center of each wire four times. |
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| Twist in groups of threes |
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| Twist "roots" upwards into the ring. |
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| Start twisting the trunk, try to keep all trunk and branch sections twisting in the same direction. |
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| Pull off sections of two to five wires and twist branches, break off inot smaller sections and twist until you reach the edge. |
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| Sooner or later it turns into a tree. |
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| Add beads and wrap wire around and around the ring until all wire is used. |
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| Sample finished tree of life. |
