The Impending Ending

I can feel now that the end of my blissful vacation is near. My days of creative freedom are over. It is a paralyzing thought sometimes, but I am trying to make to best of it and keep the energy up. I have had so many ideas and felt so relaxed to pursue whatever I [...]

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Can you picture it?

This is A’s chair, as of last night, dry fitted and propped up so you can get an idea of what it longs to be. It will have feet and a cushion seat.
I went to the local woodworking shop today and picked up a bunch of ends and scraps of nice wood for very little [...]

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abandon project

This is not my typical mode of art, but is fits this week’s Inspire Me Thursday prompt. This is a dress I started making 2 1/2 years ago. It was cut out in pieces as of last week and now is much further along, but still not complete. I have decided to make it more [...]

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Winter: In Progress

This is a painting I started a couple weeks ago. It has a ways to go still…more mixed media and finish the cars and trees. It represents me staring out my window (it is the view from my desk in our home office) and dreaming of escaping the winter grey and sometimes feeling delusional and [...]

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Hilarious Quotes of the Day

Covering sexual and asexual reproduction always has very funny outcomes. Today was such a day.
Throughout the day students had fun having the opportunity to yell out SPERM! When well-timed this lead to many laughs. Kids will never get over the idea that plant “have sex” or rather reproduce sexually with two half cells combining. [...]

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EXCITED with planning…what else?

I am so ecstatic right now! I just sat down and looked at the chaos that spring and MCAS bring and came up with an awesome plan that uses all the pieces I have lying around. See, my husband is making a movie with my class, I have units to complete, I am supposed to [...]

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