The last one is off

My funny boy had to pose

Number 2 out the door

My lil 9 th grader. I am not handling the fact I have two in high school

Happiest time of the year

First day of school!!!! 

So this first day all three are leaving at different times

First out my new 7th grader

What I have been up to

This is card weaving. Something I learned back in high school 

These are just test pieces to get back in the hang of things. 

I was telling my girls about it and about all the different things we learned how to make. I still have many of the things I made those years. I had a great art teacher. Mrs. Levine. She taught art through all my elementary year and high school. I only had a different art teacher in middle school. I started wondering about her and Googled her. :( sadly she passed away a few years after I graduated high school. Amazing woman she was. My junior year she left for part of the year to fight breast cancer. She asked me - me out of all her students- to help the sub art teacher to teach her students. Mostly it was basket weaving and bead making. I was honored then but of course looking back I realize how much of an honor it was. 

My thoughts are with you my dear art teacher. Your memory lives in me with all I learned and still make and in my children who I have passed your teachings in to. Where ever you may be - Thank you

Passing the torch

(Kris is making a face as she usually does)

That's my Kris learning how to spin on my old wheel. Both my girls learn to spin on a spindle. Tonight Kris bugged me to learn and so I dug out my old wheel and she picked it up really quickly (like she usually does)

Tomorrow she'll learn how to ply :)

Mug rug done!!

Used nothing but scraps and leftovers from other projects

Next:

Big hexies:). Sorry I'm vague there is a reason ;)

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