I'm looking forward to lunch with my friend, Mary Beth. She is hysterical and I wish we lived next door to each other. I have to go by work to pick up a couple of things I need to work on for this week. We are having lunch near there so that's no big deal. I have to do some laundry today, but I don't mind doing laundry.
I started working on a fabric basket last night as a prototype for a knitting basket that I want to make for mom for Christmas. I think the sides are too high, but that's why I make a prototype. Other than that, I like the way it is coming along. I made it with the scraps and leftover squares of plaid men's shirts that I made some baby quilts out of a few months ago.
At some point this month (within the next couple of weeks) I would like to make a small pumpkin quilt to hang on my door or somewhere in my classroom. This requires actually organizing the fabrics I have and going through them since when I moved my quilting machine into a different room, I didn't EXACTLY organize everything the way I should have. And by "didn't EXACTLY", I mean didn't at all. Just piled bins up in the quilting room. No bueno. Maybe I will work on getting that stuff organized in some way, although I really have to think about how it will work best. I have A LOT of fabric and supplies. My plan is to ultimately have twelve small wall hangings--one for each month to display on my classroom door.
I may do a little knitting also, I have a market bag about halfway done. It's so mindless to work on, and I love having "a project". I can't remember how I did the attached I-cords though, so I guess I'll be visiting YouTube soon. I have learned so much from watching YouTube. The educational value of YouTube is amazing. There's a lot of crap on there too, which can be fun, but anytime I've needed to see something to understand it (like knitting an attached I-cord, or knitting on double-pointed knitting needles, etc.), there's nothing like YouTube. You can replay it as many times as you want to, which is a bonus.
I'd like to cook a nice dinner tonight--I haven't cooked in a while. When Kaleigh isn't home, I don't really like to cook for myself, so I usually make something easy, but we like to cook together when we can. She likes to cook more than I do, but it's nice time to spend together.
Gotta go move the sprinkler.... (cue elevator music)....
Back. I guess I'll go putter around a little bit, and decide what to cook for dinner. Have a wonderful day.
Later...
I've worked out plan B for pictures on my blog. Not an ideal Plan B, but something that works for the time being.
Anyway, my class did an awesome job reinforcing colors and color recognition during the last couple of weeks. Each day, we focused on a different color--did some art (different methods each day), looked for that color in our classroom and on the playground, practiced writing the letters in that word, read lots of books on the subject of color and did some other fun things too. Below are some photos of the color portfolios that each child made.
That's it for now.
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