Gratitude 20140106

(sorry! didn't get this posted on the actual 6th!)

~have written monring pages every day this year!
~going back to bellydance and nia classes this week!!!
~staying in touch with long distance friends (thank you, G-chat!)
~assembling a paper ladybug!

Paper Ladybug!

So, eleventy billion years ago, I collected some insect-themed kids meal toys, which I unearthed tonight. I'll ask the Kiddo* tomorrow if he wants to build a set of paper insects. Tonight I had a blast building a ladybug :)

The vividly printed prices go together quite cleverly. I had to resist the temptation to make another one!  I'm hoping Kiddo will want to build them together - they're quite fun. 

*my 11 year old nephew

Gratitude 20140105

-hanging with my belly dance peeps!!!

-getting to meet a sweet little baby!!!

-being able to go back to belly dance and Nia classes 

-chipping away at the clutter on my workable 

-dragon egg dice bag is complete!!

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Gratitude 20140104

+} sleeping until I was done with sleep

+} delightful morning walkies

+} 4 for 4 in morning pages

+} clearing space on my work table 

+} accidentally awesome snapshot of the rose drying in my car

+} finishing up characters for a Middle Earth RPG (role playing game)

+} finished the body and started the drawstrings of this dragon egg dice bag!!

+} phoning the recipient of the aforementioned dice bag while working on it, knowing the recipient doesn't know about it :)

Gratitude 20140103

**getting more 2013 calendars to cut and fold
**baby sweet peppers
**am still delighted with my current twitter userpic
**3 days of morning pages in a row so far!!!
**fun dinner company

**folding the butterfly from _Easy Origami_

Gratitude 20140102

~The Night Circus read by Jim Dale. I finished listening a couple days ago and immediately requested the hardback from the library, so I can enjoy it again that way. So. Good.
~Intelligently discussing books :)
~knitting in fisherman's rib - easy to memorize, fun to knit, makes a warm, soft fabric
~2 days in a row of morning pages!!!
~putting up 2014 calendars
~This outstanding short story being available online So touching I cry each time I read it
~Daily Science Fiction has a new series - epistolary flash pieces! Will post a link once it's on their website :)

~hanging a rose to dry in my car :) 

~cutting pictures and folding origami boxes from last year's calendar

Gratitude 20140101

}} Hanging out with Kiddo while he's building a Lego set and singing along to music we both enjoy

}} morning pages!!

}} folding this butterfly: page 140 in <u>Practical Origami</u>

}} and this frame, page 74

}} seeing The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug!!

}} Starting to read my first Postal Reading Challenge book

}} gathering pretty, outdated calendars to eventually be made into postcards

}} making a postcard template - thin cardboard with a 4"x6" window cut into it