I was thrilled to discover I’d be featured in the Scottish Round-up again! Thanks for reading and I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Category Archive: Other Thoughts
Jan
20
Burns Night Pondering
The 25th is Burns night and I’m looking at doing a few of his poems with English classes – thinking a couple of poems and then some Scottish recommended reads would be a nice lesson. With that in mind I’ve been reading some of his poems this week and reading up on the man himself. …
Dec
02
Dec
01
Let it snow
It may come as no surprise that a burst of blogging links directly to my free time and today it’s my third snow day so I’m catching up. It is serious winter wonderland outside. The school is shut until Monday so I’m catching up on lots of things! The bears are a pair of travelling …
Aug
31
Blog Day 2010
BlogDay is here (yeah!) and I’m sharing my five blogs So here are the five I want to share: The first is a guilty pleasure it’s Wil Wheaton’s blog. I can tell you now Clair will be laughing at this choice – at lot. For those of you unaware – Wil Wheaton played Wesley Crusher …
Aug
19
Kateri Tekahkwitha
There was exciting news recently that Kateri Tekahkwitha could be on the verge of becoming a Saint. See here for news report In the meantime I treated my namesake, Goddaughter and self to a felt version of her from Saintly Silver on etsy. Genius!
Aug
05
Project Idea
Now I love myths and legends, especially mythic creatures. I think this might be my new favourite. It’s a Grave Guardian Beast (Zhenmu Shou) from China (480-221BC) and is made of wood with polychrome pigments and lacquer horns. As you’d expect with any archaeological item such as this they don’t really know what they were …
Aug
05
I spy with my little eye…
…a Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo! We saw them at Milwaukee zoo. I love these. I think they may be my new favourite animal. They come from the rain forests in New Guinea and they are marsupials.
Jul
29
Arty inspiration
As seen at the Art Institute of Chicago Ray Yoshida – Who Where what? It’s carefully cut up comic pages. Genius. I also saw this and presuamably thought I’d be able to read the signature on my return (I couldn’t) it’s a weaving of a Chinese newspaper and The New York Times. There was also …
Jul
26
Wisconsin Crafting 2
Wisconsin is the dairy state and the love of cheese and cows is impressive. We saw this giant mouse outside Joe’s Cheese House. Also located outside Joe’s Cheese House was a cow made from recycled materials Then just over the border into the UP we saw this Easter themed version! I wish I could go …
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