Comments on: Paper Cutting, Paper Sculpture, and Scherenschnitte

By: Pellora

Pellora — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:04:10 +0000

g’morning!
32 degrees here blue skies sunny! deceptive – you’d think it was warm out there. Low was 19.

Work this morning. Go pick up Dad at dialysis and take him home this afternoon.

Betsy – for your use, I fixed Gnome’s post on girls and finished a serious one myself last night – still have some evening late night over night posts in cupboard.

By: gnome de plume

gnome de plume — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:46:35 +0000

Morning. It is going to be a busy day here. I need to get my Habitat stuff done, then I need to move all the plants I want to save into enclosed porch – the forecast says a high of 32 tomorrow We haven’t had that kind of a day in several years! On top of all that I have the full board meeting at 6pm that follows my executive board from Tuesday.

Gus is on my lap purring and Theodore is lying in front of the screen.

By: Texas Betsy

Texas Betsy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:55:48 +0000

boy, send the kid up north for a week and she comes back knowing how to juggle snowballs. morning y’all

By: madmommy

madmommy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:51:51 +0000

Morning y’all!

The weather report is that it might snow here Friday night to Saturday morning. Of course the kids are beyond excited, I am meh. Since the last time it snowed here we lost power for 4 days and had to catch snowmelt to flush the pottie, I am less than excited. I was planning to put up the outside tack-assed, over-the-top, white-trash Christmas display this weekend, but Madhubby is pooh-poohing the idea. If the kids got wind of him thinking of not doing any outside decorating we’re gonna have a mutiny on our hands!

By: Pellora

Pellora — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:20:43 +0000

@ freckles cassie:
Hey Cassie!

By: freckles cassie

freckles cassie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:16:59 +0000

By: freckles cassie

freckles cassie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:01:20 +0000

Hiya Beach Bumz!! Cool paper cutting. New York is going to be warmer than Austin for the next few days, and we might get snow on Friday.

By: Pellora

Pellora — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:50:32 +0000

Pellora's Snowflake made at Make a Flake on 12/2/09

By: Pellora

Pellora — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:41:18 +0000

@ madmommy:
I kept as many of the kids’ made ornaments as I could manage – helps that I am a total pack rat! But they always love putting them on the tree. To relegate their ornaments to some little tree over there is rather rude and demeaning I think. humbug!

g’night Betsy – sleep well, sweet pain free and full of nice soft dreams!

g’night Gnome, Madmommy – you both sleep well too!
Gordon is already gone – hope he feels better tomorrow.

I think I’ll do a serious day post now before I go to bed and read or play games on my new phone Kidlet3 caught me playing on phone in bed the other night – called me a nerd takes one to know one!

By: Texas Betsy

Texas Betsy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:35:08 +0000

Thanks madmom. Sleep well. Maybe I'll find my brain tomorrow and write a post. In the meantime, g'night bumz. :zonked: I still use Texteen's kindergarten menorah, company or not.

From 5th night of Chanukah

By: madmommy

madmommy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:34:37 +0000

My tree has quite a few kid-made ornaments on it. They’re not part of a “theme”, and I’m sure Martha Stewart would poo-poo it, but I love it. I have friends who do not let their kids hang their ornaments on the “company” tree. They set up some dinky tree in an out-of-the-way place for those ornaments. I just don’t understand that way of thinking at all. When we were at mom’s doing her tree, she unwrapped each ornament and could say where she got it and what it meant. Of course the ones we made as kids are long gone, but everything on her tree is something she’s gotten on a trip, or was given, or made to commemorate a family pet. I look at my tree and see things the kids made in pre-school and can’t wait to see what they’ll bring home this year

Time for be for me. The doc gave me a dose of the medicine he prescribed tonight at the office, so I’m not feeling as itchy but I am sleepy.

Hope you feel better soon Betsy!

By: Lea

Lea — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:30:50 +0000

I teach my students how to make snowflakes every year and then they write equations on them equaling the new year. My nod to the holidays since I don’t do any holiday type stuff otherwise.