Camper: A Pull Behind House

My definition of Glamping: Women getting excited about camping.

MaryJane Butters has written several books:  Glamping With MaryJane (2012).  

She has also written MaryJane's Ideabook Cookbook Lifebook, for the farm girl in all of us.

MaryJane's Out Post. 

MaryJane's Stitching Room.

MaryJane's Farm monthly magazine. 

She also has a website.

Small vintage camper.  Pull behind house.

  Home is comfort, function, "place" and diversity.  

Diversity is to leave the driveway occasionally (to get away from it all ) and go somewhere different and interesting, but  have survival needs met: Cooking, bathing, and a place to sleep- to bring it with!   

  Glamping is painting the camper turquoise and pink  before you leave! 

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain on the tender herb."  A small rain.  hollyhockjunction

Fashion Runway

  A garment homemade.  Handmade. Hand sewn. Hand touched.  
I suppose the most desirable way to  say it is, "My garment is handmade."  

  The 40's house dress  shown  below looks handmade, but was manufactured.    The tag reads: Top Mode Frocks  made in USA.
  "Yesterday's Dusen Dusen Box Dress," my   daughter would say.  
  In the forties, handmade and store bought may have looked very much the same.

Greatgrandmother Emma sewed for herself house dresses like this, and wore a fresh crisp cotton apron over the top of it. She baked bread most everyday for a dozen kids. 


And my daughter,  in her forties, is learning to sew and to sell dresses on Etsy.Com  Prairie Chic.

Sewing is becoming fashionable once more.



Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb."  A small rain.  hollyhockjunction
  



  

Nativity felt hand puppets:

Mary and Joseph

Songs sung,  the Christmas story told.  Hand puppets can be used around the  table to create a hands on puppet show nativity scene.   
The Nativity puppets can also be displayed banner style.  

Wise man and Shepherd
Large sequin jeweled crown,  pipe cleaner on brown felt  staff.

Lamb and Donkey
Bell and buttons.  And a cow!

Angel

Feathered wings and puffy paint.


A basic puppet body pattern:   There are many other posts throughout 2012  blog posts that show many other hand puppet characters that can be made from the same pattern.  Some of the 2012 posts encourage ways to use hand puppets in different settings,  and encourage interactive and multi-generational play and care.

Jesus came to earth as an infant.  He came for the shepherds, the wise men, for Mary and Joseph, and for us. 

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb."  HollyhockJunction 

Salad weather.

Ninety degrees all week. 

 It would be nice  to stay cool on  a houseboat or a pontoon!

The rabbits are in the garden eating the leafy green Hostas.  

They wiggle their noses, and chew them up and 'round- the rabbit Hosta pasta. 

     Back in the day when my husband was a boy,  his grandmother would say,  "Chew your food - every bite!  Chew each bite 25 times before you swallow."  Back in the day, she had developed  swallowing issues. 
     And this day,  several old folks I know, have too.  They're not able to swallow food.  The food is coming back up.  It won't go down.  It's a condition I discover there is a name for.
     It could be as simple as, when you chew your food, the saliva in your mouth increases.  The saliva cues the esophagus to get moving- food is coming down!  Peristalsis. A normal thing.  There are exercises to get things working again.   Speech therapists knows them.  They're available to give exercises that offer help in the office, and even on on You Tube.   

           "As the small rain upon the tender herb..." 

 

 

Summer Crafts.

  

It was a week of vacation that went by too fast with the swimming, and theater musicals to attend, but we got it all in, including the crafts.

My granddaughter and I constructed a puppet.  The body was finished,  but she added the character and whim!  

Before Air Conditioning

Phelps Mill County Park.  Here, wheat was once ground into flour, and the community enjoyed one hundred years of picnics along the breezy Ottertail River.  We cool off.  Men and women in colorful shorts, tee shirts, and sun glasses.  Children dance barefot in wispy dresses, or swim on the sand bar.  Temps in the nineties with high humidity.  A cloud of steam rising, and in the vapor I envision genteel men, sporting handle bar mustaches and wearing panama hats, crisp white short sleeve shirts and tan slacks.  They're singing harmoniously in quartet,  "Down by the Old Mill Stream.."

HOME SCHOOL BLOG: Rocks and Reading Activity

SHOW and Share interesting rocks:  The rocks can be sparkly quartz, agates, petrified wood, and rocks with unusual colors, textures or shapes.
  
READ a book about rocks or nature:  


PAINT a rock.  Find smooth rocks to paint.   Use tempura paints and markers. Small stones can be glued to the rocks with permanent glue to make small critters.   

LIBRARY HOUR:  ROCKS PAINTED and embellished.

SHOW AND SHARE the children's creations.

READ stories about nature.  


(SWEET SHORT SIMPLE STORIES-  The Adventures of the mole sisters arefun for young and old.   Moles and little critters like gophers dig up rocks!    Sometimes by mole hills and gopher mounds,  there are  rocks to be found.
My husband likes to pick up rocks where ever he walks.  Sometimes he carries one or two in his pocket and after a time, the stones look shiny and polished, as if they have come from the  river bottom.

Thoughts on Rocks

In the parking lot  at the care center, rocks have been  touched by an artist's paintbrush. Left there,  to be found by those who come and go. Community Art.

DOC'S ROCKS IN THE CARE CENTER PARKING LOT

"Come to Him, (then, to that) Living Stone which men tried and throw away, but which is chosen  and precious in God's sight." 

1 Peter 2:5 Amplified Bible

"A time to cast away  stones, and a time to gather stones together." Ecclesiates 3:5

CRAFT PROJECTS rock!
Stones gathered to make a pebble picture, and stones cast away in  a game of hop scotch. (Clean shiny rocks can be purchased at a nearby dollar store if large amounts are needed for a group. Or find them on the beach.)

To make Pebble Pictures,  arrange  the stones to make  critterS,  flowerS,  or wordS.  Glue the stones onto wood or chipboard with tacky glue.  Paint embellishments with acrylic craft paint. 
 

To make Chalk Rocks,  paint a rock with flat acrylic craft paint.  Write on it with chalk. 

Hollyhocks Revisited

Winter is gone,  along with the six months of snow on the ground.  The hollyhocks that replanted themselves last fall, are out and around.

Deuteronomy 32:2 "small rain upon the tender herb."  HollyhockJunction