December 25, 2015

 MERRY...

                                                
 CHRISTMAS...

CHRISTMAS...

 GIFT!

December 22, 2015

 We had our first snow today, and Zadok is exactly 18 months old!



He wasn't interested in demonstrating for his dearest (if not nearest) relatives how much he has grown the past year and a half by holding up his first onesie...

...At least not in a way that the size difference could be clearly seen and duly noted...

...So the past and present onesies had to pose by themselves.

December 20, 2015

And the word of the day is...

December 16, 2015

 You can make a half circle skirt in just a few easy steps.

1) Measure the circumference of your waist, remembering to give yourself a little breathing room.

2) Divide this measurement (in my case, 30 inches) by a third, or .33. I would now have 10 inches. Some would have more, some less.

3) Lay out your fabric, right sides together. Keep in mind the skirt will only be as long as the short side of the fabric.

4) Measure 10 inches (or 8, or 12, whatever your measurement is) from the corner down the fold and mark with a pin.

 

 5) Keeping the end of the measuring tape at the upper corner, continue measuring across from the fold edge to the open edge, marking your arc with pins as you go.

 

 6) From the bottom of this first small arc (the waist), measure down the side as long as you want the skirt to be and then, using the measuring tape to measure from the marking pins you have already placed, create a larger arc (the hem.)

7) Cut your piece out along the pinned lines. It should be a quarter circle that unfolds to be a half circle. Sew up the open edge and attach it to the dress bodice or the waistband of a skirt.

December 10, 2015

Zadok enjoyed watching me decorate the Christmas cookies. He was a lot more aware of, and interested in, the process than he was last year. I think he's beginning to suspect that they are edible.

December 5, 2015

Here's just a small sampling of the dozens of sketches I've created over the past month for the literacy program and the (possibly first ever) picture dictionary in one of the indigenous languages of Nuristan (a.k.a. Kaffiristan.)

December 1, 2015

Amos plus past and present team members in Nampa. Training went well and they accomplished everything they had hoped to, but we are so glad to have him back!