tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5259231045954413312024-03-10T00:18:39.663-08:00Creatively Contentusing what I have, where I am at to invest,create and play!Creatively Contenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16023737844849191535noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525923104595441331.post-39337001317029230972015-04-13T12:07:00.000-07:002015-04-13T12:07:00.637-07:00BFG has made his way into our home and legos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A recommendation: <span style="font-size: large;">The BFG </span><br />
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The BFG (Big friendly Giant) written by Roald Dahl who was also the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and several others. His writing is unique and this book (BFG) though full of ideas that are repulsive and strange.. for example giants eating people, the author comes at it in such a way that it is funny and the story was light hearted.<br />
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Here is a link to hear Roald Dahl himself read and excerpt from the book: <a href="http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/characters/magical-folk/the-big-friendly-giant">Roald Dahl-characters</a><br />
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It is a great book for both boys and girls. :) All my kids loved it. (ages: 11, 8 and 6) Th BFG himself has quite the vocabulary and the use of words in this book is hysterical and yet at times difficult to pronounce. :)<br />
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We were introduced to it by some sweet friends and the result was some pretty fun Lego structures of the BFG himself.<br />
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We all have our soap boxes I am sure, but mine is: Pick up a book, a good book, a book that has lasted the test of time and introduce it to your kids. You will never look back. :)<br />
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Creatively Contenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16023737844849191535noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525923104595441331.post-3405723763776032602014-12-14T05:28:00.002-08:002014-12-14T05:28:56.489-08:00A book cake (+ crochet bombing a birthday chair)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This girl is amazing. She is full of constant ideas and inspiration. She can find something fun to do in ANY situation and she usually drags her brother and sister into having fun too. She loves life and being with people. She is soft hearted and her imagination is endless. She values things that are important and at eleven is careful what she watches and reads. Her favourite books are mostly the Classics...</div>
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thus the Wizard of Oz Book Cake. :) </div>
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and they made 'High Heel Cupcakes'. :) Seriously this was super easy and </div>
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I could post more pics, but I won't. Lots and lots of inspiration on pinterest if you are interested in making cupcake heels. I just used what I could find here in Turkey to duplicate it. </div>
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Here are a few pics of some Yarn Bombing of our Birthday chair. :)</div>
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Autumn and Lydia are learning to crochet thanks to Jenny (our fabulous Homeschool helper who is living with us for the school year). So we had a lot of crocheted yarn chains hanging about our house that Jenny used to bomb the Birthday chair. :)</div>
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Ok so maybe our yarn bombing is not quite up to standards. This is amazing isn't it. </div>
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Love the idea of splashing color in the most unusual places. :) </div>
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In my west corner, </div>
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This Pinata cake is a year old. :) Well actually the cake has been eaten this pic is a year old. ;)</div>
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Hopefully it is inspiring... it was so fun to watch everyone ooh and aah as the candy started spilling out. </div>
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As of two weeks ago my daughter just turned 11 and there is a new cake for that. :) </div>
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However last year's b-day was an important one as the DOUBLE DIGITS hit our family! </div>
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This cake was as fun as it looks and easier than it looks to make! Autty was so surprised when we cut into it and it exploded or rather spilled out with fun M & M treats from with in. </div>
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We were able to celebrate at my mom's house for Autty's b-day. </div>
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I am sad that I have no pictures of my mom and Autty together.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">As many of you know our tradition for Birthdays is that the kids get to ask for the shape they want for their cake and as long as it is in reason I try my best. I will be posting Autty's 11th Birthday cake and party tomorrow. I am confident that Autty's friend Malachi will like this next one.....</span></div>
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Creatively Contenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16023737844849191535noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525923104595441331.post-37577507005010967092014-11-16T14:11:00.003-08:002014-11-18T06:14:26.266-08:00Processing grief<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello dear blogging friends. Since the last time I wrote which is almost 6 months ago the journey that I was apart of with my mom and her walk with colon cancer has come to an end. November 6th 2014 my mom took her last breath here on this earth and her first new breath in heaven. I was there with her when she took that last breath.<br />
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I am now again in my little west corner of Turkey and trying to process this grief. This post is mainly for me. I want to be able to express myself and get my thoughts down and in some way I am hoping it will be a healthy way to walk out the loss of loosing my mom.<br />
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It is all such a torrent of gratitude, sadness of solemnness and loss of worship and uncertainty and lastly it is hope in Christ. There is such a loss I feel, almost a hole. My Father died 23 years ago and I was only a teenager then, this grief is deeper and now with both parents gone the feelings of loss seem doubled at times.<br />
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Here is what I am doing every week or so to express my fierce emotions or the re-run of the movie in my mind of those last days with my mom.<br />
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I have always been simple and not very 'fancy' as my girls say. My mom wore heals and loved to dress up. She always liked a good pair of heels or dressy shoes. For her funeral and visitation I had such a strong desire to look my best and although I haven't been a girl who wears heels I wore heals for the funeral... and now I have this strong desire to wear heels.<br />
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I find death such an enigma. Death has been around for what years, decades or rather since the beginning of time. We all know that everyone will at some time die. Yet even though humans have that knowledge and have been dealing with death and grief for hundreds of years we still have found no book or vitamin or drug or cure that can take away the pain of it. </div>
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My sorrow is deep and hard to explain yet there is a hope that remains in my heart, a knowing that my Mom when she took her last breath on earth took her next breath in heaven.<b> </b>All the pain that my mom had was gone in an instant not to be remembered....I love that. No matter the hardships in this world they will eventually fade away never to be remembered. <b>What an amazing Father that took the curse of death and prepared for us a glorious place and for us that believe has taken away the sting of death</b>. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8 years old has arrived</span> for our tip toeing middle girl. Dog loving has also arrived and so you guessed it, a dog cake was the appropriate animal cake of choice this year. We tried to do a dog themed party with some fun entertainment.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">We also added a little bit of a talent show from the parents... it was a hit! Enjoy the pics. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Here he is one and all: </span><span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Jock Illuzion... the magician.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The kids LOVED this and David was so hysterical. This was the hit of the party. I think we have found some hidden talent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Their favourite joke:</span> <i>What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator. (ba ha ha)</i></div>
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Here is our 8 year old with her cute little birthday present. Yep a little puppy. Tonight the puppy has found a new home in the cardboard doghouse next to Lydia's bed. :) Oh how we love you lovely Lydia. Happy Birthday. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I</b> </span>also <span style="font-size: large;"><b>know</b> </span>that when I exercise everything else tends to fall in place quiet times, eating right, being organised etc. One discipline snowballs to more discipline.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I know</b></span> that green tea doesn't effect me in the same way so I have learned to enjoy green tea with honey every morning.<br />
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So there you have it, those are the things I know. :)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simply doing what <b>I know</b> provides a better environment for my family and much better days for myself. </span><br />
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What do you know about yourself? What do you do to keep healthy in mind and body and Spirit?<br />
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My motto on this blog has been <b>"use what you have"</b><br />
today I am adding <b>"<span style="font-size: large;">DO</span> what you know".</b><br />
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Doing what I know in my west corner and determined to keep on doing it,<br />
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Well here we are: our homemade couch (pallet couch) and it is used ALL the time and is comfy with the thick foam. One day I would like to make a patch work cover for it ...one day. </div>
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It also stores our Math -u- see blocks and certain board books. David found where they make pallets here and bought me 4 as a surprise for 9 lira a piece (that is about $4 each).</div>
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I don't know if you can see it so well but I stencilled on our terrace door window. I used a stencil I found online for free and then used water colours and dabbed and sponged. It created a fun little design and is easily wiped off without scrubbing. So if you ever want to <span style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">stencil a window</span>... </div>
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In my little corner here there are a few used furniture places that are down a narrow alley in the downtown area. It is a street with about seven or so little storefronts full of used furniture and household items. It is not a bad part of the town but for some reason it has always intimidated me and I have never went without Dave. (even though I love the thought of finding some treasure there) </div>
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Well, I needed foam for our pallet couch and when I found out the price, it was more than we could afford so I decided to get over my '<i>I don't feel like I belong, intimidation issue</i>' and head to the narrow street. <span style="text-align: center;">Let me mention that it is hard to get our big van in and out of the narrow street, and it is usually all men sitting about and drinking tea watching you walk up and down and into their shops. However I went and I was successful! I found foam for 10 lira ($5) and this adorable chair with wheels that I bargained for from 30 tl to 15 tl (about 7 dollars) from a very kind shop owner, mind you. So a victory for me and a huge savings on my upstairs furnishings!!! </span></div>
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Here is the full span of the room. Yes it is huge, yes it is <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">aMaZIng</span></i>. We do not <i>need</i> this space for learning because I believe learning should and can happen in every room in our house but there are NO complaints from me. It is so nice to have an upstairs and not be worried about keeping the kids quiet all the time. So while we have this space we are using it to the fullest. </div>
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I had breakfast in bed - homemade scones, green tea and fruit and was smothered with homemade cards. :) I am grateful that my husband and kids have shown their appreciation for me today. It is a gift to be appreciated and loved; not a right. </div>
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Finding splashes of Spring and moments of joy around me. </div>
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Creatively Contenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16023737844849191535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525923104595441331.post-24747180986196822802014-04-16T13:39:00.000-07:002014-04-16T13:39:12.552-07:00Nightly rounds and my new elevator. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is just a quick post to say I am here...I may have moved but I didn't die. </div>
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At the beginning of the year I put together this 'Homeschool Inspiration Board' for the girls.<br />
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It is simple and at the time I thought the signs were silly but it has stuck with me know for years and there are days I actually say that to myself. </div>
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Sooo in light of that, I have little sayings, quotes and verses here and there because I know the girls read them and it will come back to them some day.</div>
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Again I remember verses that my mom quoted to me when I was growing up in her home and verses that I memorised in Bible quiz when I was in 6th grade and on. These verses have come back to me in moments when I was in need of wisdom or encouragement etc. </div>
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God's word is life giving and I love hearing my kids memorise and quote it because I really believe there will be a day that it will come to their minds at the right moment that will help them to make a good choice or remind them of God's ever present love. God's word is my source of life and I want my children to value it and hide it in their hearts. (I could go on and on about memorising scripture but I will spare you all my soap box. :))</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Offering:</i></span> a gift- something offered in worship or devotion- sacrificial<br />
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I find a lot of peace when the Lord gives me new insight into my current situations. The other day I had a break through in my understanding and here is a peak into it from my journal.<br />
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I want to give living without the outdoor freedom for my kids and myself as an offering to the Lord. It may be a small offering to some but to me it is and has been costly. I have born it only as a hardship to be endured but now I see there is a better way to give it, as an offering of love to my King. <br />
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Is there a hardship in your life that you have been enduring? Is there a way for you to take that hardship and offer it to the Lord as a gift or love? The Lord knows what it is costing you and I believe it will bring a lighter heart and a greater sense of devotion to the Lord as you give an offering that costs you something. </div>
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finding peace in offering my hardships to the living God. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ok </span><span style="font-size: large;">so</span> <span style="color: #cc0000;">Valentines day</span> is today and in our house it is always simple but sweet. This year we are making <span style="color: #cc0000;">homemade Valentines</span> for our family. Here are a <b><span style="color: #990000;">few of my </span></b><span style="color: #990000;"><b>favourites for ideas</b></span> that I found! Also here is a link for a <b>5 minute audio by:</b><br />
<b></b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.storynory.com/2008/02/03/st-valentine/">Story Nory on the <b><span style="color: #e06666;">true story of valentines day</span></b></a>.</span><br />
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Seriously this is my favourite of all time I think!!! Clever clever. :)</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Also one more thing that we have done so far today is read 1 Cor. 13 :1-7 and John 15:13.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com.tr/2012/02/candy-bar-holders-thoughtful-love.html">Candy bar valentines 2012</a></b></span></div>
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We have a few last minute details to complete...the monkey puppet was my responsibility along with the sign for the puppet theatre. :) So I am working on those today. :) Tomorrow will be practice day and putting it all together. It was really fun today to see each of the girls take total responsibility for their parts in this 'production'. </div>
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So only two more days before the 'big' production and I think this rather large cardboard puppet stage will be in our living room until at least then if not a few days after. :)</div>
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<a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com.tr/2014/01/homeschool-j-j-2-puppet-theater-part-1.html">Part 1 of Poems and Puppets. The cardboard stage.</a><br />
<a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com.tr/2014/01/diy-felt-stick-puppets-for-puppet-show.html">Part 2 of Poems and Puppets. Felt puppets.</a><br />
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I am not ready to call it finished...something is missing. I put it away though because, well I needed to clean up my dining room table for guests and I am hoping that time away from it will bring fresh ideas when I see it again. Thanks for sharing in this process with me. </div>
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A month or two ago my oldest daughter and I stayed up late together, snuggled in my bed and watched Little Women. My daughter watched it for the first time and I watched it with different eyes, paying closer attention to Marmee and how she handled her girls. We finished the movie completely delighted with our hour and half experience with the Marsh's. It has been one of my favourites throughout the years and it was such a treat to get to watch it with my daughter!</div>
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Since that night I decided I was going to make the book Little Women a part of their required reading at some point in their schooling. Then I realised I had never read it and I feel that if I want my kids to read the classics I better have read them or be reading them myself. <span style="color: #cc0000;">So this year I have committed to immersing myself with more classic books of literature</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">.</span> </div>
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After Autumn watched the movie she was taken by Jo's gift of writing and she herself has always enjoyed writing and coming up with stories. So one night about a week ago I found her up in her room frantically writing. The title of her story was Riches and Lace. Even after she went to bed she wrote with her little flashlight until her 10:00 pm lights out. </div>
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We have picked out<span style="color: #38761d;"> three poems </span>from this lovely book; <span style="color: #0b5394;">Poems for the Very Young</span>, it is full of lots of sing songy poems that are super engaging. </div>
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We are using <span style="color: #351c75;">felt</span>, a <span style="color: #b45f06;">glue gun</span> and some <span style="color: #cc0000;">doul sticks</span> to make the puppets. </div>
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I first had the kids draw out there puppets on a regular sheet of paper. </div>
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They then cut out the picture and used it as their pattern on the felt.</div>
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I am trying to let the kids take the lead on this. </div>
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They picked the poems and had to think through how many puppets per poem. </div>
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I have placed Autty in charge of all things 'puppets' and Lydia in charge of the stage. </div>
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Here they are testing out there first <span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">stick puppets</span>. :) </div>
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My remain nameless child who balked at this idea is warming up just fine and enjoying herself thoroughly. </div>
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So far we work on this idea 2 times a week for the last 30 to 45 minutes of our morning...clipping right along. </div>
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Poems and Puppets part #3....soon to follow. ;)</div>
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You can check out how we made our stage here: <a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com.tr/2014/01/homeschool-j-j-2-puppet-theater-part-1.html">Part #1- Creating a Puppet Theatre</a></div>
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Just wanted to say Hi and show you a little face lift to my 'idea book'.</div>
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This is where I write lists or sketch ideas of art pieces to be or not to be. </div>
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It was just a plain notebook I had and added some grey scrap book paper to it about a year ago. </div>
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Tonight I looked at it and thought how drab. So hopefully the new additions will inspire new ideas, creativity and cups of hot tea. :) </div>
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Underneath my idea book are fun little quilting squares I randomly put together the other day. </div>
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Here is what my living room table has looked like for the past week. :) </div>
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I am determined not to put it all away until I have created something else..something fabulous, something full of color, something grand! (my table might be looking like this for awhile ;))</div>
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Oh and here is my little incognito sewing/art supply cabinet in my living room.</div>
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I can turn my living room into a creative space in a flash and then close it up really tidy like. :) </div>
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This morning I woke up and pulled my chair over by one of my living room windows and watched the clouds move and make way for the bits of color left over from the sunrise. As I talked with the Lord I tried to sketch what I was seeing over the apartment buildings all around... they (the apartment buildings) could not shut out the sky, the clouds the fresh morning glow. I am convinced that beauty can be found every where God is! </div>
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Tonight I am going to try and create some beauty. Good night to you all. </div>
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Hey. So I have been thinking for some time how fun it would be for a <b>puppet show</b>. I have been saving this big ole box for some time and I belive the time has come for a little theatre. a little show. a performance of sort. to happen right here in our home. <b><i>So watch and be amazed as we transform boxes and felt into an amateur display of the arts. :) </i></b><br />
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We are going to take a few hours of school each week to plan and put together a puppet stage, homemade puppets and a story or poem of some sort for the script. We are hoping to have it all ready before our wonderful and dear freinds who have lived in this city with us for the past 8 years pack up and go home. We would love to perform it for them...so two weeks is our goal.<br />
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If you are interested in making your own puppet stage like this check out this you tube video it is perfect! (just need a big box)</div>
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You would think that both my girls would be completely delighted with this project. Well not so...nope one of them (who I will keep anonymous) is struggling that the results are slow and it takes steps and planning to make it come together, she wants it to go faster. This is going to be a great learning tool for her in follow through and how forethought and hard work pay off. </div>
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This idea involves thinking thru steps, <span style="text-align: left;">math, reading and crafting to name a few. Not to mention learning to work together. So I am feeling pretty good about taking our school time and putting this together. We shall see how it all goes...as this momma also is learning that 10 yr. olds and 7 yr. olds have lots of great ideas that are sometimes different than mine and wearing flexibility is imperative. </span></div>
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So long for now. In our west corner. Using another cardboard box.</div>
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Yes I am hopeless when it comes to a new printable calendar for a new year, and really one with a tea cup... well it simply must be shared. So look what I found, pretty fun hey!! :) Enjoy like I am.<br />
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My dear friend made this tea cup cozy for me for Christmas! Isn't it super fun.</div>
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I am confident that I have the funnest and cosiest tea expierence in my city. :)</div>
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Do you want one? Sorry my friend, my tea cozy.</div>
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We returned from the States just in time for the wonderful flurry of Christmas prep/Christmas and then New years. We are now feeling a bit challenged to get a good rhythm and rhyme to our days again.</div>
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While I was in the States I lost my nice camera. (I am so sad about it) I am struggling with wanting to blog because to me writing and pictures go hand and hand. I need color and I find it is through the lens of my camera. I have my phone to take pics and I am <strike>very</strike> somewhat grateful for it, but it doesn't have the same effect for me. </div>
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Knowing me my blogging blues will clear up. I have been blogging faithfully for 3 years now and it has been such a wonderful outlet for me. Honestly I love looking over my posts and re-reading certain ones and seeing the pictures captured for that thought or idea and remembering. It is a journal of sorts and a fun story of my life in this little west corner. I truthfully don't want to let that go just yet.</div>
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At this point I feel a little bottle necked. I guess what I mean is that there is so much happening in my life it seems to have made it hard for me to write because there is so much to write about and without the picture prompts it has made it harder, as the prompts and color help me express life. I have written 4 posts and left them almost finished in my drafts. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is bottle necking me:</span> My mom's diagnosis of stage four cancer, my dearest friends leaving in February, my kids grief of there best friends of 8 years, homeschooling 2 kiddos this year, discovering a learning disability in one of my daughters, uncertain of our future and if we will move, realising that we will be the only foreigners in our town, trying to figure out how to improve my Turkish when I am home and homeschooling so much, aware that I haven't blogged-took pics- or created much of anything in a long time... well that's the surface. </div>
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It was 3:30 am and I was laying with my oldest daughter who woke up earlier and had just starting falling asleep. I was about to get up and go back to my bed when my middle daughter started singing quietly...Lydia was singing stories...she sang three different ones while I lay there quietly in her sister's bed. The first few song I barely could hear, one was about her little stuffed lamby that she sleeps with and the other I couldn't really hear until the end where she would end all her stories with "this is my story for the day", repeated by 4 to 10 thank yous following and all this is sung in a sing songy voice.<br />
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The last song I was able to hear all the words. "There once was a little boy who liked to dance, who liked to dance, He put on some music and danced his heart out, his heart out. It was funny because he was dancing on a frying pan, and it had butter on it. This is my little story for today. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you." She then fell asleep. :)<br />
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This was one of the sweetest jet lag instances ever and I just had to share and record it for later!<br />
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We are heading back to Turkey in 7 days, our time here in the States with my mom and family has been invaluable and full of new memories. <br />
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Happy Thanksgiving weekend…I hope it is full of family and tradition and very little shopping.<br />
I look forward to blogging again when we return to our west corner.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Truth is Isaac loves that I made this for him but it is not on his list of favourite toys. It gets played with on and off. I think it would help if I made a few more pieces of furniture. However it was ALOT of fun to make and he often calls it 'special'. I love my little fellow and all the boyishness that he brings to our home!</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Hope this is inspiring to someone</span></i>. :) <a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com/2011/01/polly-pocket-cardboard-dollhouse.html">Here</a> is the <a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com/2011/01/polly-pocket-cardboard-dollhouse.html">girls carboard dollhouses</a> from years ago, (we still have one in good shape after 4 years!!) and another homemade toy from cardboard that I made for Isaac a few years ago can be found<a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com/2011/12/carbdoard-love-part-3-super-duper-drop.html"> HERE.</a></span><br />
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In my west corner, Good night.<br />
<i><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;">Becky</span></i></div>
Creatively Contenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16023737844849191535noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-525923104595441331.post-11174743484342021352013-10-20T13:24:00.002-07:002014-01-18T13:05:01.872-08:00Homeschool journal & journey #1 ~ Taking things too personal. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ok so the truth is I am their mom. Yep and that comes into the learning experience. I am an emotional mom at times, they are emotional girls at times and that too comes into the homeschool experience. Last year I think I took things too personal and truthfully had my feelings hurt more times than I can count by my 8 year old. :) This year my perspective has changed and I feel like I am able to see clearer. I realise that my 7 year old and almost 10 year old are not struggling with 'me' it is the subject or the learning style or there own immaturity. I feel like we have made greater strides at the beginning of this year just by me growing in that one area. My desire this year is to be a better student of my children to understand them more; how they learn, think and what they thrive in, what they are afraid of and why. Examples like what are there preferred learning styles, what are their individual love languages, what are the gifts God has given them, what are their personality tendencies and yes even what is their favourite color this month. I want to 'get' my kids so that I can love them more and teach them well.<br />
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In just over a week we will be traveling to the States to visit my mom. This summer my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. It was such a shock to my family and me. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for the opportunity to visit my family and be a part of my mom's journey that she is traveling right now. I am looking forward to being around my mom, sisters and their families. I really hope I am able to be a help and support in some way. I am also a little nervous, I know my mom has changed so much.<br />
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In my west corner... journeying,<br />
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Here are my posts from last years Homeschool journal and journey: <a href="http://bloggingthemoments.blogspot.com/p/homeschool-journal-and-journey.html">Homeschool J & J page</a><br />
Also here is a post from Mother's day a few years back I dedicated to my mom.<br />
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Off to make dinner. In my beloved west corner. </div>
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<span style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"><i>Becky</i></span></div>
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