Well.
So let me tell you first that I had no idea my new canvas says, “…signing loud for the world to hear.” And I’ve had it up for a month. Don’t be jealous of my acute observation skills.
P always contends that I am the worst about noticing my surroundings and that I would be terrible if I ever had to pick a criminal out of a police line up. And now I’ve only confirmed his theory.
I guess the upside is if we didn’t already have an inside family joke about “signing loud for the world to hear”, we do now. Nice.
Here are a few other things you had questions about from yesterday’s post.
1. Mantle
So I talked about my new stockings and felt garland and then totally forgot to show you a picture.
2. Bible study
I had so many emails asking questions about Caroline’s Bible study yesterday.
I started thinking over the summer that I’d love to host a Bible study for Caroline and a few of her friends. Years ago when P and I were in youth ministry, I knew that some of our high school girls would do a Bible study for elementary school girls and that’s what I wanted because I think it’s invaluable for young girls to see girls who are just a few years ahead of them walking in their faith.
So I contacted a few of our friends who are in youth ministry and asked them if they knew any girls that might be interested and the same two names kept coming up. I contacted those girls and they were excited about it.
We meet every other week at my house. The high school girls prepare the lesson and we meet for an hour on Sunday afternoons from 3:30-4:30. This seemed to be the best time because most girls don’t have practices or games on Sundays.
It started off with only a few girls until we figured out if we could add more and now we plan to add girls as we move into Spring. I cannot say enough about it. Caroline and her friends love it and it’s perfect for us because we as much as we love our church, we live fairly far away and Caroline doesn’t go to school with any of the kids in her Sunday School class. This gives her a chance to connect with school friends in a way that’s different from sports or other activities.
If you’re thinking of doing something like this, I’d highly recommend contacting the youth pastor at your church or a neighborhood church or maybe a Young Life director to get some names of high school kids that might be interested in doing something like this. I’ve been so impressed with the lessons the high school girls have come up with for the girls each week. They’ve talked about being thankful, fear, being a good friend and having faith. Each week they do the lesson for about thirty minutes and then the girls just hang out for the other thirty minutes.
3. Couch
A few of you asked about my couch. It’s eleven years old and I bought it at a local furniture store that’s now out of business. I know it was made by Lee Industries. I had white slipcovers made for it about a year ago and even though they get dirtier much faster than I care to admit, I still love the way it looks.
And the good news is I can unzip everything, throw it in the wash with some Oxi-Clean and it looks brand new. Sometimes that lasts for longer than ten minutes.
4. Snowflakes
As for the snowflakes, it was a lot of trial and error. But we finally consulted Pinterest and found a post about how to fold paper to get the best shape. It’s right here if you want to check it out, but there are tons of ways to make snowflakes if you just search “How to make snowflakes” on Pinterest.
Then we started off using this website with snowflake patterns as a guide. We didn’t manage to achieve any that looked like this, but it gave us a good idea of how to cut and shapes that look good. We also used a single hole punch on some of them to get perfectly round cuts.
And then we hung them on the wall using scotch tape because we are very fancy.
I think next year I may want to decorate my whole Christmas tree with nothing but white lights and homemade snowflakes.
And that’s all I have for today. I was in a recording studio for eight hours yesterday recording the audio version of The Antelope in the Living Room and feel that I am out of words.
Which works out since I have no voice left.
See you tomorrow for Fashion Friday.