05.30.07
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 9:06 am by Meg
I have a IRL friend, Chaz, who designes clothes.
She’s one of those friends who never has the same hair color 2 months in a row (we go to a movie together about once a month - often with other friends - and then sit and chat) so I speak of her hair color from many years experience knowing her. She’s fun, she’s funky.
And she makes some wild clothes. 
She also makes children’s clothes.
Now in the past, I’ve seen the stuff that she makes and gone out to her website and thought I’d love to get something…..and then looked at the prices and gone ‘Not on my budget!’
But this week we were emailing back and forth ‘chatting’ when she mentioned that she’s looking at some late nights because of a recent order for custom beach towels and her plans for leaving on Thursday to see family in Boston.
BEACH TOWELS. I had to go see. Yeah, they are cute. But I also noticed that she’s expanded what she’s making and the prices are coming down.
So while I still love the Diva Kitty, and Farmer or Pirate Overalls, you now don’t need to dip into your college savings account to get one of her creations.
So, if you have a chance, go check it out. She doesn’t even know that I’m posting this, so if you should decide to order something, tell her Meg sent you.
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Posted in The creative side of life at 7:54 am by Meg
I decided to go ahead and post Boy’s wallet anyway. He didn’t want a carved one, just a ‘classic’ dark men’s wallet. And this is certainly not my best work, but it will last him for quite a few years and that’s what matters.
I will be doing more leatherwork this summer because I already have about 4 projects lined up for myself between requests from my mil, Hubby, and Hubby’s uncle (and I suppose for myself, since I want to make a bowl for ME!)
Both the kids have projects planned as well. Girl is making a portfolio and Boy has plans for a shield and gauntlets. While they will do most of the work, I’ll be involved working out some of the details.
I will post pictures as things are done.
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05.26.07
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 11:20 pm by Meg
Yeah!!! Thank you, thank you Andrea and Ron.
Now I just have to write that post that has been sitting in my head all week and come up for something to submit to the Country Fair. hmmm….
But not this weekend. I’m making Boy a new wallet tonight (just a boring dark, chemical tanned one) and then taking Girl and Tochter over to Target in Indy shopping tomorrow.
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05.14.07
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 5:21 pm by Meg
If anyone has not been aware of what the CoH has been up to, it now should be called the Christian Carnival of Homeschooling. With that in mind, Chris over at O’Donnellweb decided to make his own CoH.
So, here’s mine:
Going back a ways - Here’s a discussion of idiots calling for a boycott without really looking at all the information.
The following month I posted about why HSLDA is not something to be proud of.
I finally ‘talk’ about why I homeschool in this post from last June. I never did end up posting about Girl deciding to come home.
Taking on high school gives most homeschools the shivers. Here I talk about trying to set up a plan for getting to graduation and life.
It’s always fun to ’see’ where other bloggers are, here I talk about all the places we’ve lived.
And what do you do for yourself?
I was pretty lame and dry for most of the fall, you are welcome to go read it, but nothing jumps out at me.
Anyway, That magazine was a topic on my state list in December and here’s my feelings about it.
In February we found out more about Girl’s nickel allergies. It’s not pretty.
I can toot my horn as well as the next person.
And with that I close the CoH - Meg Edition
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05.12.07
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 11:46 pm by Meg
WOW, I can not express how much all the kids exceeded my expectations both nights.
Our first performance was at a local retirement village. They have a small stage in their community room. The head of Leisure Services said that we should expect only about 30ish residents to come and most would not stay for a 2 hour show.
So I printed about 100 programs and figured that would cover both nights. I mean our homeschool group has only about 20 active families.
I came home from the first night with less than 10 extra programs.
It wasn’t really quite that large a turn-out. Girl was handing out programs with the help of a couple of the littlest girls and she told me later that the 2 of them were giving programs to every person that walked down the hall, even if they weren’t coming to the show. Oh well.
Any way you slice it, the room was fairly full when we started. We did lose most of the residents at the intermission, but some stayed. And the non-residents that had come for the show stayed. We even got scouted by some other group (no idea who) who were looking for ideas for their drama group.
The show went smoothly, everyone remembered their lines or were able to cover their stumbles smoothly. And the audience laughed and laughed. Puck was amazing. His mother did a word count of his lines and came up with about 1300 words. He had them, and he’s only 10! Hard to believe.
When we meet on Friday for the second performance, the family that is technically the ‘head’ of our homeschool group, reported that one of the residents had been so motivated to call and say that she had really enjoyed it and thought is was well-done. She also identified herself as very knowledgeable about Shakespeare. Though she did ping us about the floating pronunciations used for Pyramus and Hippolyta.
Hey, I couldn’t get them to all even settle on one way to say it, let alone the correct way. It was not a battle I felt was worth fighting.
For the second performance I went ahead and printed more programs. Nearly 70 were taken. Now I know some of the kids took souvenirs, but that still means we had a fairly large crowd. At least much larger than I was really expecting for 20 kids from about 10 families to draw.
Our second show was done at a small theater owned (I think) by the local men’s barbershop chorus. Their building manager was there during the show and couldn’t stop raving about it. He thought that we had out-classed his little theater, and deserved a larger audience. He also said that they would love to have us come back next year and would work with us setting a date.
Since the local children’s theater group also uses their facility to perform, I really feel like he had something to compare us to and liked what he saw.
So it’s done and we’re off to see Spamalot tomorrow, which will be a lot of fun.
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