More Holiness Give Me: Sometimes a girl just wants to build something!

Friday, January 21, 2011

Sometimes a girl just wants to build something!

I am doing it! Yep, uh huh! I am super ecstatic. I am building something. Out of wood. And wood glue. And saws and sand paper. Oh Yea!

And what I am building just might be darling.

SOME people (you know who you are) think I have better things to do, but ya know sometimes a person just wants to create something! And I'm doing it! And maybe what I am making won't be quite as fancy as one I would buy....but simpler is often better!

So here is a picture of what I have done so far. :) The wood is bought and cut!

I'll keep you update on my progress! Off to sand!

Oh yeah...So far I have spent 24 dollars. We'll keep a tally of how much it costs.

Speaking of creating....Nathan and Rhett took a very fun 4-H class on bread dough sculpture. We have the nicest neighbor who teaches various classes and the kids love to participate. So here are their creations....

Spider

Alligator (the tail was eaten)

Snake

elephant

frog

Impressive, huh? And their best work (a bat and a chickie) is being lacquered and sent off to compete in the state fair. Ha!

UPDATE...Okay... Umm...Not quite as much fun as I thought. Yeah...Woodworking as my future career....NOT going well. I have yelled UUUGGGGSSSSS several times as apparently this is a lot harder than it looks. I have spent about two hours JUST getting this done....

One measly little board nailed to the other... I had to do it about three times because I kept getting it wrong. GRrr...

It is really hard. I hate that!

One thing that did go well and included hilarious amounts of laughter at me and the kids was trying to teach them our first Hymn. (Remember New Years Goals?)

I made SWEET (as in cool) pictures to help us. I pointed just like a real music teacher at each picture as I tried to teach them the words to the song. It was GREAT! We did have to discuss the difference between softly using your voice as a musical instrument and yelling. Sadly, we are just loud people at this house...

Salt and Pepper shakers to the first person who can guess the song! Seriously. And no! That is not a tractor! And I am predicting the winner will be Kirstin.... Just sayin'.

Hint...some of the pictures we used twice for the different verses. Ha!

I know it is not a fair fight since not all of my friends sing from our hymn book...sorry. Luv ya.

4 comments:

Myrna said...: Joseph Smith's First Prayer. and Susan of course that isn't a Tractor!! It is a pair of Binoculars, any one with artistic talent could tell that; January 21, 2011 at 7:52 PM
Janetlee said...: Bees were humming, sweet birds singing, music ringing through the grove... I totally thought it was a tractor!; January 21, 2011 at 10:25 PM
Anonymous said...: Love the talented kids you have! Great dough sculptures! Good luck on teaching the songs!; January 22, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Unknown said...: See--that music leader (with pictures) is harder than it looks huh? :) Good work! I may have to call you to help me with my primary art projects :); January 25, 2011 at 8:30 AM

I know it is long but it is life altering!

C.S. Lewis- Meanwhile the cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning...It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. But it is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption, and our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

"Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are course; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fotune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." Margaret D. Naduald

" Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Nelson Mandela-

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Sometimes a girl just wants to build something!

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