a single photo capturing a simple, special, extraordinary moment from the week. inspired by soulemama.
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this week, i am grateful for...
:: being able to help maya and her first grade classmates finish up their handwork projects for the year!
:: working on settling into our new summer rhythm.
:: being able to continue to stock my little shop with handknitted and felted goodies.
in gratitude,
shelley
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i did it. i finished the last two gnome hats i had promised to knit and donate to our waldorf school's 30 year celebration and fundraising event...just in time (the big event is this saturday - as in, day after tomorrow)! whew.
i decided to make these three hats in couplets of adjacent colors on the rainbow spectrum (red-orange, yellow-green and blue-purple), and i'm quite pleased with the grouping. i'm secretly hoping all three of these go to one family, as i'd adore seeing three sweet little heads side by side in these hats!
now i'm sure to see even more little gnomes out roaming around on our school's playgrounds! one can never have too gnomes, yes?
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this past week (and weekend) maya's class put on their much-anticipated first grade play at our waldorf school. their play was written by their devoted and amazingly gifted teacher and it was his interpretation of the greatly loved grimm's fairy tale - the bremen town musicians. the children did a total of four performances for both the school and the parents, with two different casts (for two of the performances, half of the class were the characters in the play and the other half were the villagers and vice-versa for the other two performances). maya was one of the two black cats in her character performances and a farmer/villager in the others (i was fortunate to be one of the parents helping with costumes). as is the tradition in most waldorf schools, the first and second grade plays (each grade performs one play per year) are recited by the entire class...with no specific lines given to any individual child - however, the characters do move about and act out their rehearsed scenes. my, how the children worked hard on their recitation and movements and they did such a fantastic job. it was truly a joy and an honor to see them come together as a group and perform this lovely play!
maya's drawing...
maya, with her class and teacher, as one of two black cats...
maya, with some of her classmates, as a farmer/villager...
the ostheimer set of the bremen town musicians which we gave to maya as a gift after the last performance...
"you see, that was beautiful and we should surely know. come and join us, friend, to bremen we shall go!" ~ AWS first grade play 2011, the bremen town musicians by adam beshears
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another busy weekend left me with only a small amount of knitting time - just enough to finish another gnome hat for our waldorf school's fundraising auction!
i'll have more to share about our busy weekend tomorrow. :)
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our waldorf school's handwork group finished the noro silk garden blanket that we've been working on collaboratively! 30 squares, lovingly knit and pieced together, one square at a time, to represent the 30 amazing years that our school has been in existence. what a joy and pleasure it was to meet with, work with and knit with a group of like-minded waldorf mamas to create this beautiful blanket of love for our school! i am honored to have been able to participate in this project, as well as being the one to photograph the finished product...
it will be auctioned off at our school's big fundraising event in april and we hope that it fetches a nice price - although, truly...it's quite priceless in so very many ways. :)
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this weekend, my knitting projects were a bit repetitious...consisting of more work on my second felted yoga mat bag (i won't bore you with yet another in-progress photo), as well as the completion of one more gnome hat for our waldorf school's fundraising auction...
join me again tomorrow, when i'll be sharing the long-awaited completion of an important knitting project that has been near-and-dear to my heart!
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i'm (obviously) still having a bit of a difficult time finding my weekly rhythm again, so my work-in-progress projects this week (brought to you one day late) are going to be short and sweet - they are simply more progress on two previous projects. first up is a continuation my second attempt at a rainbow felted yoga mat bag ...
and here is another scrappy gnome hat that i'm working on for our school's fundraising auction event (i've got at least three more of these that i want to make for this project!)...
here's hoping you're enjoying a creative week!
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