Monday I worked on an oil tanned leather messenger bag, based off the pattern I used for Ocean’s bag, but with a liberal amount of changes. I think it’s going to be smaller than what I’m looking for, but it’s a good practice project in any case. It was my first time using magnetic closures, which I added into the …
We had about 3″ of snow by 5pm Sunday and got a bit more before it stopped that evening. That meant that on Monday we had ice covered snow, but the trees got off easy, and we didn’t lose power. I snowshoed out to the mailboxes. That road was clear, but ours was super crunchy. Jeremy took the Subaru out …
Monday I prepped nearly 40 canvases with gesso. Tuesday after music lessons I cut vinyl, put each vinyl set on a canvas, then painted two thin coats of white paint on top of the vinyl. I ended up just using some flat ceiling paint we had sitting around. We did some karate practice, then went to class. Wednesday during my …
Sunday afternoon Jeremy was on the phone for hours, coordinating work schedules. They’re moving back to a 3 day in-office work week to cut down on exposure, but we also had a fast-moving storm pop up with predicted overnight accumulations of 4-7”, which added some scheduling fun. We haven’t gotten 4-7″ of snow in the last few years combined, let …
Monday I did some more post catchup. In the afternoon we all went to watch the new Spider Man movie in the theater. Ocean could not sit still. It was partly the chair the kept folding up on him, partly his ADHD brain that wasn’t as engaged as I thought it would be. He can’t sit still during General Conference …
