Weekly Round-Up

This week I.....

.... did some modeling for art.

Here's me back in 1912:

It was a Downton Abbey Tea/fundraiser for the Lincoln Choral Artists, and I volunteered to model as part of a little fashion show they had amid cucumber sandwiches, scones, and some AMAZING singing.  The outfit came complete with hat, scarf, gloves, cameo necklace---and petticoat.  It had a series of tiny hook-and-eyes in the back that pretty much told the world that madam had a lady's maid.  The dress was from an estate in here in Lincoln in the Sheridan area.

... had tea with Aunt Monica.
... worked on not one but two freelance writing projects.  I actually had to turn one down that sounded interesting, but if I get overbooked I can't do my best work so.....

And now I'm home sick, trying to write, hoping it's not strep throat, and wishing I was hanging out with my friend Elizabeth making art.

Light and Destruction..... Or DIY table lamp from a standing lamp

This past weekend Belovedest and I updated the lighting in the living room.

He is constructive.

He took down the ceiling fan and put up a light fixture.

Next, he turned one of these:

into one of these.

by taking out these sections of the lamp:

This involved cutting and splicing the wire.

(Next up: painting.)

She is destructive:

I took apart the ceiling fan to add to my sell-as-scrap-metal pile, which was a lot of fun.
BEFORE:

AFTER:

Note the box on the right full of metal bits.  There was a fair bit of copper in the motor :)

I'll have to post a picture of the new light fixture....

Herb Garden Medicine

I used aloe on a cut a few weeks ago.

 

I cut a leaf that looked like it was dying anyway and squeezed some of the goo onto the cut.  It didn't sting and it seemed to kick-start the healing process.

Medicine from the window sill and an easy-to-grow plant = a good deal.

Yesterday's Mail

It was a good mail day yesterday....

We got our seed packets from Seed Savers and I got a packet of Christmas cards from a total stranger in Arizona.  As Shakespeare put it in Merchant of Venice: "So shines a good deed in a naughty world." It really warmed my heart that someone would be so kind just to be kind.

So here's to kindness, art, and gardening!  

Let's go make the world beautiful!

Life Hack #10: How much does _________ cost me a year?

I wanted to find out the cost of contacts versus glasses by figuring out how long one bottle of contact solution lasts, but you could apply this method to everything from cereal to sticky notes.  Just write the date on the item when you start using it, and then note how long you used it when you threw it away.

Weekly Round Up

This week I....

... joined a book club
.... watched my husband make a YouTube video for Charlemagne Beard Oil.  (The green screen was still drying from being steamed--he didn't use it that way!)  It was a ton of work but he learn a lot.  You can check out the finished result here.

.... set up the desk in the bedroom with stuff for making Alex's book.  I am determined to finish that thing!

...realized that with three freelance writing projects happening at the same time, the blog is going to get neglected....
.... stopped by Out of the Box to check out my friend Evert's glass art.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

It begins!

Yesterday we started planning for our 2015 garden!

We are using a lot of left over seeds from last year.  We'd stored them in the fridge, but not in a air-tight container, which I discovered yesterday was what we were supposed to do.  We're starting enough seeds indoors, though, that we will know pretty quickly if we need a Plan B.  I hope.