What are you working on recently? Is it something for baby? A gift for someone? A flower bed? A vegetable garden? Baking a cake? Writing a book? Share all about your creative side here! It can be anything YOU think is creative! Feel free to include pictures if you want!
Re: February Crafting/Gardening/Creativity
My craftiness is pretty exclusively painting and graphic art. Both hobbies (the latter being a career I had and that is now freelance for over 10 years). I don’t get to do either near enough.
I have dreams of being crafty but the reality of that just doesn’t match up with my life. I’d love to make jewelry and sell it but I don’t even know where to start.
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
Im glad your husband is supportive but I get the pushiness.
We live in a great district but my husband was homeschooled and I went to public school. I have nothing against public school but there were a lot of factors that make it feel not right for us. Private school is the compromise. For a long time, we were sure I would homeschool but as it got near, I realized it was wildly unrealistic right now and I didn’t have the desire. So we decided on the private Christian school that was connected to our church and I basically said I’d do that for a year and then reevaluate. But we’ve loved it SO much and I can’t imagine my kids being anywhere else. So we are making it work and in the future we will have to make some adjustments.
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I don’t know how to crochet well enough to make anything (although I have friends I plan to rope into teaching me,) but I know how to knit. My mom is a master knitter (she did a 3 year course) and growing up I learning how to wash sheep’s wool, dye it, card it, spin it into yarn, knit, and felt with it. I never liked it as much as sewing at the time, so I can knit scarves, dishcloths, and things of simple shape. I know a few different stitches though, so I play around sometimes. I also want to knit a baby blanket, but know the gender first.😂
I never got pro skills at anything, because I love trying everything🤣, but some things I enjoy include Painting (often on unique items as canvases,) Semi-Abstract ink drawings, painting pottery (there’s a shop in town with a kiln,) Sewing simple things, floral arrangements, cake decorating, gardening (restricted to it being in an apartment in the winter right now,) writing-I love my fountain pens, beading, card-making, etc.. I’ll share a few pictures of favorite projects!
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
5.5.16 | 8.14.17 | 1.30.19
@and_peggy no. It’s so difficult to homeschool here. Our church has a co-op but is an hour away so that’s already a challenge. My cousin used to homeschool but had to stop. And I know another woman who homeschooled all of her 11 children but her youngest is 16. So it’s really not easy to just jump in. Ds2 can do preschool in the fall this year but I probably not sending him. I essentially homeschooled ds1 through preschool and he was more than prepared for K. But my biggest reason in sending ds2 is that it’s only a half day program, morning session and afternoon session, so I would essentially be back and forth to the school all day. And with a baby and their schedule it just sounds exhausting.
@paytonpedro that blanket is beautiful! Definitely save it for your baby girl
@and_peggy Now I'm curious about which church the private school is through, because a ton of my friends there growing up went to a Christian school in a church there lol.
We plan on homeschooling/farm schooling, too!
We are currently snowed in, but hopefully next week I'll start clearing out our raised beds (we have two, about 8'x20' each) and start working the soil for a Spring garden. I usually do one bed with squash and melons and the other as a salad/salsa/herb garden, but since having DS1 I've let them both get overtaken by weeds. Hoping to get them both back in action this year!
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Ooh! We plan to homeschool as well! Both my husband and I were homeschooled, and we liked it overall. My mom homeschooled 5 of us, so at times it was more independent than I preferred. My husband loved that independence and his mom also homeschooled him and 4 brothers. Some things we’ll plan to do similarly, but moreso take into account what each child likes best and excelled at for teaching style. I like the subjects my husband doesn’t love and vice versa. I can’t wait to teach cooking, crafting, gardening, practical finance, and lots of hands on skills that are beneficial for boys and girls to grow up knowing.🥰 For kids who love the social element of school, I highly recommend extracurricular classes and finding other homeschoolers and friends that they can meet with regularly! Growing up with neighbors and a homeschool group really gave me a lot of social skills and independence from my family norm, despite mom being a homebody through and through.
It was my pride and a really great distraction for me last year. I might have to delegate some of the work to mh and dad. Lol.
I write fiction for fun and help moderate a fiction writing forum online. I'm working on two separate books (mainly because I got an idea for NaNoWriMo this year and had to get it on paper, so I paused my other ongoing project to get at least 20k words down) and have no idea if they'll ever see publications, but they keep me occupied and it's really fun.
Bear says, “I was supposed to be a cute snuggly panda.”
@fromfurmomtobabymom8-2 The wine looks amazing! That’s such a cool hobby! Strawberry Rhubarb & Sweet white/rosé wines are my favorite. I don’t drink much, especially if it’s not sweet, and obviously not right now while I’m pregnant.😅 But I do love trying new things!
@meagan822 yay! When do we get to know?!?
you guys are lucky I get cupcakes tomorrow for ds1’s bday party or I’d be going to get some tonight haha.