http://themathworksheetsite.com/
I'm over here all the time and print piles of these things for the little guys, like multiplication, telling time, measuring. What a great site for FREE! Some of the ones that want you to pay don't have basic, simple worksheets this useful.
Happy pills
Got my Flash assignments more or less done, see this week's project here,
http://janelwashere.weebly.com/flash-2.html
Yes, Flash is a lot of fun!
But it's hard to do what you're supposed to be doing if your brain's bursting with great ideas for something else.
I've been working on a peasant dress pattern, one that would be right to start with, not have to be adjusted in all kinds of way. Why do commercial patterns always seem to have immense necklines? Half the stuff I make, the neckline has to be raised three inches just so my bra doesn't show. Really why ALTER when you can just start from scratch and then share the pattern on the internet :-)
Got busy with AI. I absolutely totally love AI for making patterns, it's just the greatest thing since candy. I did a little scooting on the raglan pattern I already had (for the spiral dress, before I cut the sections apart) so it would work with neckline elastic, then measured the lower edge, drew two immense circles in AI, and cut a section with the top that measurement.
See that box "document info"? That shows the length of CURVED lines. Makes it super easy to make pieces of fabric fit to each other.
The ruffle's just a square. I wanted to do this this morning so I could go by later and get some $1/yd fabric for testing, but how many yards do I need? NO PROB with Illustrator, just draw a square 44" wide and start arranging copies of the pattern pieces, stretch the square long enough to enclose them all and divide by 36 :-)
Six yards!
Playing with this stuff is just like taking happy pills!!!
http://janelwashere.weebly.com/flash-2.html
Yes, Flash is a lot of fun!
But it's hard to do what you're supposed to be doing if your brain's bursting with great ideas for something else.
I've been working on a peasant dress pattern, one that would be right to start with, not have to be adjusted in all kinds of way. Why do commercial patterns always seem to have immense necklines? Half the stuff I make, the neckline has to be raised three inches just so my bra doesn't show. Really why ALTER when you can just start from scratch and then share the pattern on the internet :-)
Got busy with AI. I absolutely totally love AI for making patterns, it's just the greatest thing since candy. I did a little scooting on the raglan pattern I already had (for the spiral dress, before I cut the sections apart) so it would work with neckline elastic, then measured the lower edge, drew two immense circles in AI, and cut a section with the top that measurement.
See that box "document info"? That shows the length of CURVED lines. Makes it super easy to make pieces of fabric fit to each other.
The ruffle's just a square. I wanted to do this this morning so I could go by later and get some $1/yd fabric for testing, but how many yards do I need? NO PROB with Illustrator, just draw a square 44" wide and start arranging copies of the pattern pieces, stretch the square long enough to enclose them all and divide by 36 :-)
Six yards!
Playing with this stuff is just like taking happy pills!!!
Nisqually Wildlife Refuge
Whyyyyy I didn't have my camera with me? Some of these would have been so pretty, in my favorite colors of white, black and deep blue.
Best I could do with the bald eagle... cell phone camera held up to the working half of a little boy's binoculars :-)
That's the tree the bald eagle was in! Middle of the pic... tiny white blotch... that's him.
Best I could do with the bald eagle... cell phone camera held up to the working half of a little boy's binoculars :-)
That's the tree the bald eagle was in! Middle of the pic... tiny white blotch... that's him.
Good Morning
The view out my window at 7:30 this fine morning. Well, it's the day the Lord has made!
I took a great pic yesterday. I only had my phone cam, wished I had my real camera! Colors came out all screwy so I used Photoshop to try to make them look like they really were. I love finding primaries. Here's a white moon, blue sky, green tree and red monkeybars. My fav is white snow, blue sky and yellow maple, or blue sky, yellow maple and green pine.
A mother commented that she was glad winter was over. The kids have been sad that winter's over and we didn't get a big snow! But you know what, running around without a coat in January doesn't necessarily mean winter's over. Wait and see!
I took a great pic yesterday. I only had my phone cam, wished I had my real camera! Colors came out all screwy so I used Photoshop to try to make them look like they really were. I love finding primaries. Here's a white moon, blue sky, green tree and red monkeybars. My fav is white snow, blue sky and yellow maple, or blue sky, yellow maple and green pine.
A mother commented that she was glad winter was over. The kids have been sad that winter's over and we didn't get a big snow! But you know what, running around without a coat in January doesn't necessarily mean winter's over. Wait and see!
Blue and brown afghan done!
I declare it done. There's a little more yarn left but I think this is big enough.
The pattern is three dc, two dc in one, one dc, two dc in one, three dc
The pattern is three dc, two dc in one, one dc, two dc in one, three dc
Pictures of me in my nightgown, posted on the internet
Or not, there's such a thing as shame.
So here's just a flat picture :-)
Very happy with how these turned out. They're the flannel and knit I picked up at the same free meeting as the Pfaff last year, with just a little more $2/yd blue flannel added. Almost free nightgowns...
So here's just a flat picture :-)
Very happy with how these turned out. They're the flannel and knit I picked up at the same free meeting as the Pfaff last year, with just a little more $2/yd blue flannel added. Almost free nightgowns...
Heller With a Gun, Louis L'Amour. SPOILER WARNING
Heller With a Gun, Louis L'Amour. I LOVED IT! I acquired it in a pile of books, read it and then gave it away, because I was in decluttering mood and figured reading it once was enough. Phooey that, had to have a saved search on Ebay for a year to find the same exact cover image at a total of $4, and finally did. My kids can declutter my books for me when I croak.
Anyway, this guy's your basic gunfighter character with no background, who watches a traveling theater company head away into trouble with some bad guys disguised as guides, and follows them to save them at the appropriate moment. The theater company includes a gracious antebellum Southern lady whom the gunfighter admires, and she's attracted to him yet with a kind of horror. Her long-time admirer, the theater company manager, can't compete with the animal magnetism going on around here, but he carries his part off as well as he can. They have a couple of showdowns with evildoers and the gentle lady's horrified each time at all the shooting and violence and general lack of manners. The gunfighter's afraid to be around her because he sees himself through her eyes, and at the end of the story, after saving everybody's bacon, he takes himself away quietly in a kind of shame. But there's a young showgirl in the company too, who was the daughter of a westerner, who had tried to help the gunfighter and the gentle lady's romance to work out, telling each good things about the other, sheltering and comforting the gentle lady and handing the gunfighter ammunition when he needed it. At the end, she notices the gunfighter's ridden away, and that the gentle lady and the theater manager are relieved to be at a restaurant in a civilized town again and are sitting down to dinner, and she's like SOMEBODY gimme a horse! Cause she knows which way the gunfighter went :-)
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