Mish Mash Splash

June 2, 2013

Stopping to Smell the Roses

 

After a long month apart Cannon and I reunited for more creative adventures. There were big smiles at the front door and we wasted no time in getting started. We had exchanged pictures during the month and Cannon explored real life samples of some of the images.

First the yellow roses from the abundant yellow rose climbing outside my window. We smelled carefully so that no prickly thorns were encountered.  The thorns are the way the plant protects itself. We found  a bud (baby), a toddler sized flower, a child sized, an adult sized one and a fully opened one – fully mature one. 

Cannon was eager to see what else had been gathered into the basket from the garden.
There was a handful of golden oregano which Cannon crushed in his right hand to release the fragrance of the herb – just right for one of mom’s special dishes.  We took a close look with the magnifying glass at some blue gray mushrooms that had come up overnight in the grass.  We also looked at the “wings” from the silver maple tree and a few of the pine tree seedlings that had started to grow between the patio stones. From the cherry tree we looked at one small yellow cherry beginning to form where a blossom had been. 

Making Something Special

 

Cannon looked at the index of the book The History of Beads and independently found the chapter dealing with African beads.  Then we spread a bag full of West African beads brought back from my time in Ghana all over our red shallow work tray. Cannon enjoyed running his hand over the bead of all sizes, shapes and colors. We found pictures of some of the beads in the book. Then he began picking out those beads that he wanted to use to make a necklace for mom. He picked out one special bead for the center. He wanted to used lots of different kinds of beads so he picked three more different ones. He picked up each bead and put it into my hand to add to the design tray. Then he chose beads to use as spacers between beads.  When we had the design the way we wanted it Cannon assisted in the stringing of the beads.  Then we attached the clasp and next week we will wrap the package.

Paste and Stamp

Two special cards were made using our special stamps and papers. First Cannon selected collage papers for each card and covered the papers edges with glue from the glue stick.  Then he used the Red Baron to smooth the paper down, next he selected his message (not Boo! What a sense of humor he has) and then inked the stamp and placed it on the card. He added some finger prints for a personal signature as well as his name stamp.

 

 

Fun and Games
We played a short round of math slam, read a couple of chapters from Captain Underpants vol. 2, and put the continents and oceans map together reviewing the names of the continents.

Knock, knock!  Who’s there?  Mr. Dan – Bye, bye Miss Beth

So good to be back working together again.