LAST WEEK I filled my days with projects. Fun ones! I made a couple of palette signs. I love using the sawzall to cut through the nails. It takes like, 5 minutes to break down a palette that way. Before a friend told me about using the sawzall Cheryl and I used crowbars and it took us days and days. And there's something about using power tools. It's scary yet empowering at the same time.
I have an idea about inventing steel toed crocs to work in. Not that I'm a croc wearing crazy mom. I just have a pair for wearing in the garden. When I bought those $1 green crocs from the garage sale, I made a promise to myself that I could only wear them around the yard and not beyond. The same promise I made to myself about the yellow moo moo that I wear on Mondays to do laundry.
Another exciting thing for me this week when I was putting together the palette signs was using John's nailer. Another power tool. I love it! I just want to go around nailing things with it. So fun. I've noticed a change in my mothering this week. I was a lot more patient with my children. I think using power tools get a lot of built up emotions and aggression out so I'm not yelling as much. I should try to use it every day.
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| My first attempt at painting a chevron print. This was for Kelly O'Reilly, soon to be Kelly Cahoon I like this picture of me. It makes me look skinny. |
I finally finished our American Flag palette. I loved how it turned out. I'm glad that I didn't make this before we learned about how to display flags in cub scouts last month. I would've painted the "union or field" {the blue square and star} on the wrong side. Look at me show off my knowledge of our flag. The things I learn in cub scouts. I finished this and placed it by the front door just in time for 9/11. Patriot Day
We are having an abundance of peppers in our garden. I guess that's what happens when your husband plants 2 dozen pepper plants. I'm going to be making a lot of these.
#!**#!!!tarts don't want to come out of the tart tin. Maybe she might have cussed when that happened. I may have done the same thing a few times. But it's okay because they are called cussing tarts. She made the most delicious desserts. Well, I got to make these twice this past week for two special occasions. Maddy Bowman's mission farewell open house and Kelly O'Reilly's bridal shower.
What a wonderful, fulfilling week. I try not to think and say, "Look. I made this." Brian Regan ruined that phrase for me. If I get caught saying that to my family I am ridiculed. I like what President Uchtdorf says about creating something. "The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul." Oct. 2008. He also said this, "Creation brings deep satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take unorganized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty—and I am not talking about the process of cleaning the rooms of your teenage children." Wait there's more...."We were created with the express purpose and potential of experiencing a fullness of joy.4 Our birthright—and the purpose of our great voyage on this earth—is to seek and experience eternal happiness. One of the ways we find this is by creating things."
Just go here to read more. It's wonderful and go create something this week.
