Done being sick

I am able to take a deep breath today - my boys are healthy and so am I.

It was a long two weeks of sickness but now we are done and are able to move on into Spring!

The weather lately has been in the low 50's, nice and sunny (January and Feb only had a handful of sunny days).  I hope to have my boys down in the stream collecting crayfish for the turtle.

I had not taught this week so the kids are a bit behind with their projects and hopefully we can all buckle down and really crank out some good classroom time this coming week.

Here are some random shots from this winter.

This is the Black Sheep Spinners Guild I belong to, once a month we gather and spin, knit, chat, show&tell, and in the summer we gather at people's houses and do random projects.  I joined as a needle felter but now I have my wheel!

Here are my 4th grade handwork bags.  They loved working on them (some had a hard time finishing the french seams) but were happy when they were finished.

3rd grade plant dyed wool yarn hat.

1st grade knit mouse (from a square).

This was the window right before winter break for the 2/3rd graders.  They made those window stars.  Below is their watercolors of Moses in the water as a baby. 

Watercolor ink paintings

We did this craft with my two boys and their two friends this past Monday.  I really wouldn't call it a craft either - its beautiful art work!  I think I am going to frame three of them and put them on the walls.  I just love them and they had so much fun doing it.  You just watercolor on wet paper a background color and then when that is dry you give them a dab of india ink at the bottom and a straw.  Sometimes you need to add a bit more ink further up.  

Wow what great colors they did.  Love it.  I found the idea on this web site if you need a bit more help.  I wasn't as formal with the tape as she was.  I found her site through the crafty crow blog which I can't recommend highly enough.  SO many ideas.

I might try these smaller, on cards. Change the background colors to blues and you could have a really cool winer scene for christmas cards.