Hannah and Purple Choo-choo.

Whenever Hannah is finished with other projects, she likes to bead.

This time something new happened when she and Zaccai discovered that they could bead with colorful pipe cleaners and beads using a braiding system.

We were all very pleased with the bright new bracelets--never saw anything like 'em!

In the foreground is our finished papier mache choo-choo train engine which we also pleased with.

Have a Creative Day!

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Aloha Margaret

Zaccai, Margaret, Hannah.

Today, Friday March 26, 2010, is Margaret's LAST DAY working in the Activities Room at the care center where we meet as a creative workshop. As I said a couple of days ago, she has been on the job for 14 years--so she is an institution here.

We gave her two pizza-box framed pictures made by workshop people and a big, colorful papier mache bowl which we made last year.

Margaret has a very kind and friendly nature which everyone appreciates.

She has saved newspapers for our papier mache projects for us and has always been pleasant and supportive.

Aloha, Margaret and bon voyage!

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Aloha Margaret

Aloha, Margaret.

Friday, March 26, 2010, is Margret's LAST DAY at the care center where our creative workshop meets.

She has been doing the "activities" thing there for 14 years! And THAT takes a LOT of heart!

We all wish her all the best and know that she leaves with a lot of "stars in her crown"!

ALOHA, Margaret!


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Montezuma's Pyramid

Montezuma's Pyramid.

Our home-school kids are now studying the Spanish Conquest of Mexico.

To help visualize some of the amazing pre-conquest buildings made by the Aztecs, we are making our own little papier mache pyramid--using bread-stick boxes again since we still have lots of them.

It is well known that Montezuma and his priests and advisers believed in a prophecy that one of their founding gods, Quetzalcoatl, was going to return from the east and destroy their civilization and bring forth a new one. (One which would not need or allow human sacrifices,)

And it is quite a coincidence that Cortes appeared on the shores of Mexico in the very year predicted!

Of course, we know that bearded Spaniard Hernan Cortes was no "Return of Quetzalcoatl", or was he?

He, with his soldiers in armor, horses, war dogs, crossbowman, cannon and harquebusiers sure made an impression on the mighty Aztecs--and did, in an unexpected, but in a practally miraculous way, end one civilization and start another.

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Katya Back

Katya.

We are very glad to have Katya back!

This young artist seems to know exactly what she needs to do--and she gets right with it!

No dainty little puny paint brushes for her either--she goes right to the biggest we have and chooses THAT one for her work!

And no little dabs of paint on a sissy palette! She goes to the BIG containers and pours out enough in a dish to really get going with!

I think Katya is a REAL artist!!

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Kaeli Checks In

Kaeli's Coloring

Another neighbor kid, 7 year old Kaeli, wants to join the young artists in in our "Creative Workshop".

She gave me the above picture as proof of her talent, and her mother says when she is older she can join us.

Isn't that how life is? Two of our old-timers passed on last week and a young one wants to join and to be a creative artist as soon as she can.

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Choo-choo Beginning

Basic Choo-choo.

These cardboard bread-stick boxes and a cleaning powder can wanted to be a choo-choo train engine--so we stuck 'em together with tape, coated 'em with papier mache---and as soon as we paint 'em, we'll show you a choo-choo train engine!

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