Month: January 2015

Third Grade: Day 73

Today’s class time was spent working on Isabel’s essay on dolphin’s.

She needed to write up a working outline. I told her it was just like her note cards but with a bit more information but NOT with complete sentences. She was a confused on that part and ended up writing sentences. Oh, well. With practice in the future, she’ll get the hang of it. Tomorrow she will be writing up her rough draft and hopefully writing up her final paper on Friday. If not there is always homework and the weekend!

We also did Bible this morning and our daily spelling test.

Third Grade: Day 72

Today is Isabel’s first day back at piano in 2 weeks and she’s rusty. She did better than I thought but she needs to get back to practice practice practice.

She’s got some new books (she got for Christmas) and her teacher Ms. G gave her a couple new books with new music.

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Tuesday’s are always weird because we begin the day like normal and then we leave for several hours, only to return not in any mood to get back to school work. It’s tough.

The Bible verse for this week is…

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1

Over the next 3 weeks she’ll be learning the first 3 verses of John 1.

Today we finished another book, this one was a science book, about the seas and oceans of the world. It was a good book and I think Isabel enjoyed it. Than again anything with animals, lately, she’s totally into.

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Her dolphin report is moving along.

We went to the library today and got 4 books on the subject. All are going to be great references for information for her besides the information we got off the internet last week. Tomorrow she needs to write up a rough outline. Then Thursday or Friday she will need to write up her rough draft and then the next day write up her report.

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She’s working on math here and I was playing with the camera.

We also started a new book today.

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We’ve only just begun and it’s a small book so we’ll be finished by Friday.

Our Native American prayer focus this week is the Iroquois tribe.

New Credenza – Part 1

While we were out shopping for bargains today, Gino spotted this “diamond in the rough” black credenza at the local thrift store for $24.00. Upon closer inspection, he had me confidence that with a bit of elbow grease, it would work for what I was looking for and it was all wood.

It measures 5 feet 6 inches long and is 2 feet 7 1/2 inches high and has 9 drawers. It’s big and it’s ugly but we can see it has beauty under all that black paint!

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Whomever painted it didn’t do a very good job (makes our job easier!)
and with just a scratch of your fingernail the paint comes off.

The front corner paint, along the top, was removed by Gino. He applied some citrus remove for about 30 minutes and it removed the black paint with no problem.

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Opening the middle doors exposes more drawers with painted fronts, just like the side drawers.

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A close up look at the treated spot, reveals a beautiful wood of either oak or mahogany
but he’s leaning more toward the mahogany.

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I’m excited for this new project!

I had just mentioned to Gino 30 minutes earlier in the day, that the only thing I really needed was a piece of furniture for all my table linens and such. We’ve actually been looking for something for several months but haven’t liked any of the pieces we’ve seen. I’m convinced that furniture stores aren’t selling furniture. It’s all particle board and veneer junk. I don’t want that!

This piece is what I’ve been waiting for! Like Gino said, with a bit of elbow grease and new knobs this piece is going to look great, stained or painted, in our dining room.

The Lord answered in a BIG way! Thank You!

Number 8 Is The Winner

So a few months back, I got this awesome new wall art piece that I have been deciding on where to hang and I finally made up my mind to hang it in the front room. Surrounded by my crosses…

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My first task was to trace all 19 of my crosses onto poster board. This was fun to do and was an awesome sight to see each outline on paper (I’ll be keeping the paper crosses for the future).

I then needed to cut out the outline crosses which was harder than it sounds. All those curls and curves with the thick poster board was hard on my hands! I tried using a utility knife but the one I used tore the paper, so I went back to using the scissors. I eventually got them all cut out and then spent 1 whole day moving things around on the wall to see about placement around my new wall art piece.

As I worked I took pictures to see how each little movement looked before I said it was perfect.
BTW – the blue square represents my new wall art piece, you’ll get to see that later!

It was a process but it looks awesome!

 

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Layout number 1  – I like this but it seems a bit crowded for this large wall space.

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Layout number 2 – this is better but the cross behind the light is still hidden.

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Layout number 3 – I moved smaller crosses around and larger ones from one side to the other.

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Layout number 4 – those smaller crosses are just hard to fit in to the whole picture.

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Layout number 5 – at this point I’m beginning to see the end but I need to trace my largest cross and it requires 2 sheets of poster board.

So I’ll trace that, take a break and think some things through about placement.

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Layout number 6 – got the largest cross cut out (far left top) and it was not easy or pretty.
The layout is looking a lot better but I need a second opinion or two…

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Layout number 7 – Gino advises that the lowest cross is to low and I agree after some more thought.
It’s new home is along the top.

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Layout number 8 – is the winning layout!
I have extra space under my new wall art piece to add to my collection!

It’s time to sit back and view the winning layout and think about this before I start pounding in all those nails. So I’ll ponder for a day and be back… I really do think I like this.