Recent projects, April, originally uploaded by pennylrichardsca.
Another month gone by, and more of the same–a few sewing projects, a loaf of bread, some crochet, some altered purses…. the last image is of docent projects from the Hands on Art lesson this month (only five of the clay desserts in the photo are made by me).
No really…. even if you send me something as small as a button–if it’s a cool Polka Dot Creations button–I’m going to have to make a purse based on it. The brown purse is from a thriftshop, great leather, clean inside (except there was a sample vial of perfume in one of the pockets). Before:
Brown purse, BEFORE
AFTER
The button is attached with thread, after I got Peter to drill holes in the leather. There’s a lot of gesso, acrylic paints, sharpies, modpodge, krylon. (See my altered purse tutorial here.) And that button.
DETAIL
Been poking around vintage patterns on Flickr, always entertaining (for me). This puzzler looks like twice the work for half the apron… with all that extra, useless coverage on the shins.
Yes, it says “detachable potholders.”
Recent projects, March, originally uploaded by pennylrichardsca.
Another month, another set of projects completed. Same stuff as last month–purses altered, crochet, baking. Colorful too!
Probably in the wake of the Cerrie Burnell furor, someone found my old DS,TU post on talking to preschoolers about disability, and translated it into Spanish–cool!
Mary Blade, standing at blackboard, originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution.
In observance of Women’s History month, a lot of institutions participating in the Flickr Commons project are uploading archival photos of women. So I’m having a fine time. But the Smithsonian’s uploads this week are women scientists from the 1940s and before–like Mary Blade, above, an engineering professor at Cooper Union. Like Annie Jump Cannon. Like Mary Agnes Chase. Great stuff, check it out.
It’s about this time of year, when we’re sunny and in the 70s here in LA, that someone back East is shoveling snow and says “well, at least we don’t have earthquakes.” But like the rest of the East Coast, Pennsylvania does have earthquakes. And when earthquakes hit mining regions, remember that the ground underfoot is mostly hollow.
Have a nice day.
Recent projects, originally uploaded by pennylrichardsca.
I haven’t been posting too much over here lately, but these are some of my recent projects–click through the links in the caption for more details.
I’ve been making a lot of collaged purses, and crocheting, and baking. But I messed up my wrist yesterday doing yard work, so I suspect the crocheting will take a backseat for a while. There will be more purses when I find more good candidates for altering at the thriftshops. Baking–well, it’s supposed to rain again tomorrow, so I’m thinking a tomato pesto loaf is likely.
Hat tip to Kathleen for alerting me to this one–I couldn’t make this stuff up, folks:
Frozen Sewage Piled Up in West Scranton–For Now
First sentence: “On top of their regular snow-clearing duties this week, Scranton officials are weighing what to do with chunks of frozen sewage piled up in the 300 block of North Garfield Avenue.”
Later in the article the phrase “glacier of sewage” appears. Ah, winter in Scranton.
(By the way, this is my 100th entry at Pennamite. “Glacier of sewage” was totally worth it.)
UPDATE: Kathleen sent along the latest news, which says that the “piles of frozen sewage” have been removed (taken to a landfill in Dunmore, of course). But the director of public works thinks the situation was overblown, because “It was really only mostly water.” Oh! And that smell will go away, “once we get a good rain.” Beautiful.
When I want to remember the US Presidents in order, my mind conjures images: I see the posters Miss McNulty put up on our fourth-grade classroom walls, one for each president through Nixon. It was 1975, so there should have been a poster for Gerald Ford, but I guess she bought the set before Ford took over. Each poster had a portrait and some facts–birth and death dates, place of birth, term in office, party, ethnicity, religion (I remember being fascinated that only one of them was Catholic, living in a town where most folks were Catholic). Those are the pictures I see when I hear “Van Buren” or “Fillmore.”
The poster my daughter will remember appeared on her classroom wall (well, window) yesterday:
Scholastic poster of 44 presidents
Count them. 44.
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