Canning for Christmas

I planned on giving Mulberry Jam in gift baskets for Christmas this year.  I underestimated how much we liked it. Mark went down to the root cellar to bring some jars up and that is when we realized we only had one jar left!  I gave the last jar to my grandmother and gave the rest blackberry or blueberry lime jam instead. Next year we will need to plan our gift basket giveaways a little earlier...and keep the jars seperate from our stash!!  Hoping to add some more variety to the baskets than just jam next year.  Maybe some pickles, or sundae topping... We did bake up a storm, and make lots of fudge and peanut brittle, too. It was a good year.

Georgia Crochets

Georgia has been getting into crocheting lately.  She has really picked up on it, learning new stitches and techniques. We've borrowed some books from the library, looked up how-to sites and watched how-to videos, bought some crochet pattern books, and she's made some patterns up on her own. We bought different types of yarn and have experimented with crocheting with jute twine, and have tried all different sizes of hooks, including P and Q.

In November she made a hat for herself!

And she stayed up late at night in her room to secretly crochet a scarf for me AND one for her sister!!!  I was so surprised.  No pattern, this was her own design.

She also crocheted a little net with jute as she practiced a mesh pattern.

PHOTO OF NET HERE


And lately she has been crocheting motifs.

And here is a hat she made...no pattern....her own design just playing around with it and trying new things.

PHOTO OF SMALL HAT HERE


She amazes me!!

Doodling in Math Class

Found a really neat site from a recent NPR piece.

Ulam Spiral.... Pascal's Triangle.... graph theory.... Ouroboros.... Borromean Rings... Knot Theory... you still with me????

This site  is by Vi Hart, who puts fun back in math with her videos and tips and tricks.  Vi describes herself as "a recreational mathemusician" and as evident in her videos, loves math, music, being creative, and having fun with it all.  Georgia sat in front of the laptop for over an hour watching her videos with sketch book in hand.  She had a lot of fun trying the techniques shown in the videos...especially this one.

I'll put Georgia's sketches here when I get to the other computer.