The Scientist has put together all the kits in the house, engineering bridges, building a duck robot, assembling a model boat. He is working slowly but steadily on a Rube Goldberg machine lemonade stand. I'm afraid by the time he really gets it together it will need to be a hot chocolate stand. The subscription to Make! magazine he got for his recent eleventh birthday was clearly a good choice.
The Storyteller has been making Sculpey dice, beads and figurines, beading up jewelry with me, and is working as hard as ever on the RPGs he invents.
Their next projects will be learning archery and fencing at the medieval-themed camp they are off to tomorrow.
The Hero and I began reading the Oz books. I have plans to paint a map of Oz on the back of a bookcase and fill it in as we go. I will have lots of time to work this up because the Hero will be spending two weeks with the daddio and the Gamer out of town while the middle boys are at camp.
I made a bunch of jewelry, two necklace and earring sets, one Lord of the Rings themed. I also strung together a bunch of earrings in celebration of finally figuring out (that, is bothering to Google) how that works. I made a teacup pincushion, too, only it's in a travel mug.
I plan to finish a couple of wetlands-themed gnomes, both for gifts, and work on an owl gnome. I want also to make a few more pincushions, piece together a felt scroll based on a folk song, and make lesson plans! It's the time of year when the school district expects me to send them plans for next year, so plans for next year I shall make, even though my homebrew lesson plan book doesn't require me to fill in specifics ahead of time.
Hopefully I'll also remember to take pictures of all these things and blog about them.
You're so creative! I have become an online planner: scholaric.com (LOVE IT!) If you try it out, email and I will tell you about the secret tricks. You do have my email, don't you? (jennilynn9 at google of course).
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