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Another fairly lazy day for me today. I did some laundry and washed the sheets that I intend to use to make a dust ruffle and a duvet cover. However, after a brief shopping trip out in the muck, I was very cranky and not in the mood to fight with my sewing machine. (My sewing machine and I are not really friends yet. I still haven’t figured out all of her quirks, and she’s not very forgiving of my lack of skill, that bitch). So I read a book for a couple of hours, watched me some Sense and Sensibility, and finally decided to get off my ass and make something around 10 tonight. I didn’t want to get into anything big, so I decided to try some easy paper-cutting. I used a drawing out of one of my Dover Chinese pattern books (love Dover!), an exacto knife, and some cardstock. I backed it with some dark blue scrapbooking paper, and then put it in a little frame I had lying around. I might try making another one of these this month, as it was pretty easy to do, and I think I can do better next time. I might also try embellishing this one a bit with some glitter or possibly some very small rhinestones. What do you guys think?

The first actual drawing exercise I ever did as a kid was to cover an 8.5X11 sheet of paper with one line, and only right angle turns were allowed. Another thing I hadn’t done in several decades. This one was way more fun and is more interesting to look at as a finished thing than the ones I made way back when.

Today was I made a really fun thing: an accordion book. Now, I have never made one of these before and didn’t know how much fun I would have with it. We took a trip to the zoo recently and so I made it from those pictures. I can see how these could become quite addicting! If I ever made a scrapbook from this time, I think the accordion book would fit int here very nicely and give me a way to showcase lots of pictures without doing 10 scrapbook pages.
I took a bunch of pictures, which I did upload to the flickr group, but I’ll just post the mosiac of them here:

My girls also both did their projects today as well. One made a bookmark and the other made a book. It’s so cute. They wake up and almost immediately begin to brainstorm about what they will make for thing-a-day today! They are having fun with it and that is really fun for me to watch =)

Affordable and easy to make cat toys.

I found the Mouse, Jak and Ball patterns FREE at Marmalade Pets

I made the notches too wide, so I ended up taping them to ensure the 2 pieces stayed together.

For Day 4, I will attempt to make dye from Blueberries!

“My, what a year 2008 is already turning out to be for disabled people…”

An Ouch Blog post in which I bemoan my inability to do anything useful. And other, more serious things.

That’s all the creativity I have in me, for now, since it took me all day.