Monthly Archives: July 2013
magnetic pincushion
Sewing isn’t my strong suit, but I do it when I need something made out of cloth.
Because pincushions have never worked very well for me, I devised a better way to keep track of my pins and needles.
make it:
Place a reasonably strong magnet inside the metal lid from a glass bottle. This is much easier to get pins in and out of than any other pincushion.
chipmunk
Although much smaller, I’ve seen chipmunks chasing away squirrels.
Are chipmunks braver? Or just overconfident?
making drawings
We were always making things when I was a kid. My parents were creative, and they certainly encouraged us in this. These are some of my pencil sketches from when I was three and four years old.
Paper was expensive, so we drew on whatever we could get our hands on. When I was a little older, I rememberwe used to go through our notebooks at the end of the school year and liberate any unused pages for drawing paper. That’s why a lot of our early drawings are on lined paper.
I never felt I was a good artist, because my older siblings drew so much better than I did. I was never very good at colouring inside the lines.But it never stopped me from making art, because making art was fun.
