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| TexasGran |
Posted - Mar 01 2017 : 4:39:03 PM
Hi everyone, it is time to think about April. Easter eggs, bunnies, baby chicks, all baby animals, flowering fruit trees, showers of spring rain...DOES THAT GIVE YOU ANY IDEAS?
You are such a creative bunch of ladies, I always love receiving your cards.
Sign ups close on March 15, and your list will be sent on the 16th.
If you are new to our card swap, or have not participated during the last 6-8months, PLEASE send me your email as well as your snail mail addresses.
Thanks, and have fun.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| hummingbirdjoy |
Posted - Apr 14 2017 : 4:13:37 PM
Thank you Ruthie Ann for your sweet vintage bunny Easter card. Cute Easter stamp inside
the card too.
Farm girl Sister #7074
What I make with my
hands, I give with my heart ....
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| suny58 |
Posted - Apr 14 2017 : 11:23:44 AM
Yes THANK YOU AND bless you Ruthie Ann for your precious card I got yesterday!!!! Happy Easter everyone and have a most beautiful blessed weekend!
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| TexasGran |
Posted - Apr 14 2017 : 11:13:58 AM
Thank you Ruthie Ann, for your cute Easter card with the vintage bunny. Sweet. I love it.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 5:31:50 PM
Thank you Mary Jo and Denise!!! Got my pretty cards this afternoon! :) must take a beach trip SOON!
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| TexasGran |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 1:05:33 PM
Yes, Mary Jo thank you. I also received your card today.
Thank you Denise for your pretty card too.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| Killarney |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 12:33:07 PM
Marilyn, they would not let girls take shop at my high school. I took 4 years of Home-Ec. Easy A because I came from a family of Quilters and Sewers! If you had a machine at home, you could take you project home and sew on it at home. Marilyn, I know your ready for a Summer break!
Dianna, I didn't know you were a teacher too. My Hubby does not miss school at all!! LOL! I miss helping him in his class!! After 40 years of teaching Special Education, he was ready to retire, mostly because of all the paperwork! It got heavier and heavier every year.
Connie
Imagine....#3392
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| Killarney |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 12:23:02 PM
Thank you Denise for your beautiful card!! My favorite flower!!
Mary Jo, Loved your Pretty postcard! I long to go to the ocean! I have not been since 2004! 
Connie
Imagine....#3392
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| TexasGran |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 11:03:24 AM
Two more months and I will be finished. I admire you for saying no to teaching, because your plate is full.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 08:21:03 AM
Oh no Marilyn...no more teaching for me. Not even as substitute! No time anymore! I have more than plenty here on our homestead to keep me busy plus raising Sara! I'm happy I don't have to deal with all the pettiness anymore. :)
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| Madelena |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 07:35:10 AM
Sounds great,,MRilyn
"There is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see it push away the clod, he trusts in God." (Kate Douglas Wiggin) |
| TexasGran |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 07:03:04 AM
When I was a seventh grader we had a semester of shop, I was one of three girls in the class. The boys were making those kidney shaped coffee tables, some from exotic woods . I made a kitchen shelf for my mother. Next semester was a craft class. Wow. Leather tooling, copper rubbing,ceramics,lacing,weaving, etc. Looking back I know we were blessed. The buildings of our school were old. But the treasures(including the patient teachers) in those two classes were so awesome.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 04:40:53 AM
Ladies,
just popping in quick to thank you all for such beautiful Springtime/Easter cards! Your creativity is awesome!
~Denise~
Farmgirl Sister #43
"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105
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| Madelena |
Posted - Apr 08 2017 : 03:01:16 AM
Ah Dianna and Maruilyn.. Art class is good. I guess they would have turned down Monet or DeVinci too! So sad. I subbed years ago in a middle school in an art class filled with boys. I wished I was able to draw Cool Cars, but alas... not my thing. Seems they all had a semester of shop and the Principal put them in Art the second semester. Not there thing...
Home Ec would have been better.. .. Got Cookies? My youngest took an auto shop class in high school and second semester home ec. When they'd bake cookies, he'd get permission from the teacher to bring some to his 85 yr old. grandpa's a 1/2 mile down the road. A Win-Win!!!
"There is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see it push away the clod, he trusts in God." (Kate Douglas Wiggin) |
| Killarney |
Posted - Apr 07 2017 : 7:31:22 PM
Mary! I love your crafting gathering!! Sounds like so much fun!!
I miss school!! I was one of the room mothers for my Holly's class 1-6 grade! I am so hoping to share in some of Lily June's school activities once she starts to school!
Art and Music should be taught from K-12!!!
Connie
Imagine....#3392 |
| Killarney |
Posted - Apr 07 2017 : 7:25:37 PM
Denise I loved your card. I got reload my batteries, then I will post a picture.
Connie
Imagine....#3392 |
| hummingbirdjoy |
Posted - Apr 06 2017 : 4:10:28 PM
Denise, thank you for the sweet chick and Easter egg card. Love the gold cross stamp
inside and the "Risen" one too.
Farm girl Sister #7074
What I make with my
hands, I give with my heart ....
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| TexasGran |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 1:21:06 PM
Are you going to teach again one day? I love sub work in little schools. After two years in private pre school situations, with sweet little kids, I need a break, not from the kids...but the teachers, and their personalities and jealousy. Next year I have been invited to sub again. I am thinking that sounds pretty good.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 11:44:54 AM
Sounds like here Marilyn! It is a k-12 small school also and there is no problem working with the younger classes, k -3rd maybe into fourth. Why they don't want to continue with art into the upper grades is beyond me. You can be the principal's WIFE and still no art instruction. I feel like they need that 'expressive outlet'. I have Sara in an art class at All About Art in town. She is with her age group and it can go all through school into the summer with summer camps. So she STILL can get her 'art' on but how I miss the teaching and being around those amazing young minds!! :(
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| TexasGran |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 06:46:03 AM
That is no fun Dianna. I remember when my son was 16. It was May, we had a faculty meeting. I asked if I could teach an art class to the Senior class the next year,my son's class. My reasoning was that they had taken most of their required work, were going to get bored, and possibly be a problem. NO!
I was elementary, no could do. I did not understand...I did annual staff, was the cheer sponsor, helped with 4-H, and drove a bus...
In our little K-12 school, I could work with the big kids, but not teach them art.
Then when Baylee was a first grader, I visited her class. Oh my! I offered to help two afternoons each week. The teacher said yes and one afternoon I helped with reading and the other afternoon we did an art project. The teacher could have some individual time with kids who needed help. It worked out well.
Sometimes I wish they had left kids with one teacher through sixth grade, but I also understand in a way...why they changed.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 06:33:49 AM
Awww....love that Marilyn! I wish Sara was still younger. They don't allow parents to come in and help or do art with the kids once they get in 6th grade. Bums me out!Have fun!
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| TexasGran |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 05:57:28 AM
It is fun to share these special cards. I take mine to show the kids at school. Tomorrow we will make eggs to hang on a twig tree. They made Valentine cards for three weeks. I cut out hearts from construction paper, card stock, glittery foam, and scrap book paper. They loved the Washi tape and other little extras.
We have made cards all year for various reasons. It warmed my heart at Christmas that one little girl made cards for her classmates. Simple crayon and construction paper, but she has the idea...sharing some of herself with others.
TexasGran
#6389
Let God's light shine through you every day.
Amazon Children's Books, look for my name:Marilyn Robinson Godfrey
Craftsy: patterns for farm stick animals under my name.
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| suny58 |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 05:48:18 AM
She's a Pekin Mary. They are so personable! I think your crafting gather sounds WONDERFUL! I would really enjoy going to that! Great cause also!
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
| Madelena |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 03:51:34 AM
These Spring cards with eggs, bunnies and chickies are Wonderful!! So very creative. I'm bringing all of them to my crafting weekend to share with my friends.
We get together once a quarter at a local church to work on projects from cards, scrapbooking, crafting, quilting, whatever.
The little country church opens its activity hall to us for $45 total both days.. and feed us really well! Plus all proceeds goes to a special project like summer camp for kids or Operation Christmas. It's a great way for friends to get together for good causes.
"There is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see it push away the clod, he trusts in God." (Kate Douglas Wiggin) |
| Madelena |
Posted - Apr 05 2017 : 03:42:31 AM
Love Izxy Duck!! Sooo Cute!!! What breed of duck is her?????
"There is no unbelief: Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see it push away the clod, he trusts in God." (Kate Douglas Wiggin) |
| suny58 |
Posted - Apr 04 2017 : 5:50:51 PM
Couldn't agree with you more Connie!!!
Mary!!! That is the cutest and sweetest bunny card!!!! Just love it!! Thank you!
Farmgirl #7703
Dianna
"Blessed are they that see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing." Pissarro |
