Star lantern tutorial ....found it!

http://childhoodmagic.blogspot.com/2010/04/star-lantern-tutorial.html#comment-form


sweet!

Last summer for me at Three Fold / Fiber Art Studio/ Sunbridge

I fee like when we started we were the 12 dancing princesses. Now there are much less of us finishing up the training but it is still very magical and their energy is still with us.

I am packing to get ready to leave for the East Coast.....looking forward to my last summer in NY.

I hope to have a VERY full training...you know how Choleric I am and how I just CAN'T sit still for too long....time is money baby!

calendar of the soul...this week

Calendar of the Soul

[June 13, 2010 - June 19, 2010]

Eleventh Week

In this the sun's high hour it rests
With you to understand these words of wisdom:
Surrender to the beauty of the world,
Be stirred with new-enlivened feeling;
The human I can lose itself
And find itself within the cosmic I.

painting rooms. Lazure and Veil

use chalk to draw your people or animals etc. this way you can rub it off and not harm done, if you paint with out an outline you could mess up and a veil doesn't go away.

This picture is inspired by a Dutch artist and her work of the Fisherman and his wife. I need to look up her name and show you the picture. Her's is much better but I enjoy learning from her work.

I have been asked "have the meditations given by steiner...

Have the meditations given by Steiner become a guiding star for my inner life?

Well....maybe...I don't say them everyday and I don't feel we study them very well in our training.

But I do like this one. We are actually in week 10 or something but I do like this verse.

Fourth Week
(April 28-May 4)

I sense a kindred nature to my own:
Thus speaks perceptive feeling
As in the sun-illuminated world
It merges with the floods of light;
To thinking's clarity
My feeling would give warmth
And firmly bind as one
The human being and the world.

Practical advice

Published on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 by YES! Magazine

Six Things to Do About the BP Gulf Disaster

by Sarah van Gelder

Instead of sitting helplessly on the sidelines, here are six things every American can do.
BP has failed repeatedly to stop the gushing oil disaster in the Gulf. It's trying again—using a technique that risks making matters worse—and saying that there may be no repair until August, when it finishes drilling relief wells.
The media, meanwhile, is treating much of the news from the Gulf like it's a contest between the "Drill Baby Drill" crowd and the Obama administration. It's not. It's a national disaster.
While those of us outside the world of deep-sea engineering have limited knowledge, there are some things we can and should demand:

1. The federal government needs to take charge and put BP under temporary receivership as recommended by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. BP was dishonest about the quantities of oil flowing into the Gulf, and their initial repair efforts have failed. The federal government is accountable to the American people, and it needs to decide what to do to protect our nation's water, wildlife, and shorelines of the Gulf (and wherever else the oil travels). As Reich argues, receivership would allow the government to act with full authority and accountability, and to call on all the expertise available (not just BP's) to help make the difficult calls.
2. The cleaning and protection of coastlines needs to be ramped up. Whether that means hiring more local fishers, bringing in National Guard troops, or deploying citizen brigades on the beaches, the response needs to be aggressive and sustained. Even if the oil stopped flowing today, the contamination would continue washing up in sensitive coastal regions for months or longer. All workers should have training, equipment, and protective gear to keep them from being sickened by the oil and the toxic dispersants.
3. There should be generous pay for the armies of bird-rescuers and beach cleaners, and those out protecting shorelines with boats and booms. Families who are the immediate victims of the disaster should get first crack at the jobs, and their wages will help sustain the region through this economic storm. Charge BP (and any other companies responsible for the disaster) the full costs for as long as it takes to get this region clean, whether it's months or years.
4. Use the least toxic chemical dispersants and insist on full disclosure of the makeup of all the dispersants being dumped into the Gulf. The U.S. EPA should determine which dispersants, if any, are used based on the long-term health of the Gulf and its shorelines and estuaries, not based on which companies haveties with BP or which chemicals will be most likely to hide the effects and protect BP from embarrassing images of oil slicks. Use emergency powers, if necessary, to get a full disclosure of the makeup of the dispersants from BP or whoever is refusing to release it. Without this information, there's no way to keep the emergency responders safe, to properly treat stricken birds and sea life, and to assess the long-term damage.
5. Boycott BP, but also other oil companies. They are all spilling oil (see what Shell is doing in Nigeria, for example), and causing direct environmental damage. But using oil, no matter what company pumps it, is putting our entire planet at risk through disruption of the climate. Melting ice caps, changing rainfall patterns, mega-storms and failing crops are already happening, but that is only the beginning if we start hitting climate tipping points. We must kick our fossil fuel addiction. This is our part of the solution.
6. Begin a massive conversion to energy efficiency and renewable energy. There is a lot of blame to go around for this disaster, from the practice of putting cronies in charge of regulation to the corporate culture of putting profits above all else. But this disaster is above all happening because the oil that is easy to get to is already taken. Now oil companies are trying to get the oil that's hard to reach, from deep under the oceans, from hostile regions of the world, and from dirty and destructive sources like tar sands. We've entered a time that analyst and author Michael Klare calls "The Age of Tough Oil," and the costs—human, environmental, economic, and strategic—are rising with each new barrel. Making our economy more energy efficient and building a renewable energy infrastructure offer immediate benefits in terms of jobs and economic stimulus and will sustain generations to come.

Sarah van Gelder wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Sarah is executive editor for YES! Magazine.

book binding

I just taught the faculty how to do book binding so that we don't HAVE to buy the pre made books from paper scissor stones or Mercurius....if we don't want to....

The pictures below are books my girls and I made yesterday.....we are just having so much fun with it.
we ran out of glue...so some are undone....its addicting actually.

It is SUPER simple

get cardboard
glue (spray glue is best)
fabric or water color painting.


Take your paper and fold to the desired size. Sew up the center of the fold with simple needle and thread.
have the cardboard almost match the paper. cover the cardboard with material and leave about 1 in allowance on all sides so that you can fold and glue onto the cardboard.

now take the first page of the folded paper and glue that to the cardboard and the last page and glue that to the other side.
All done!

Gnome party, stone soup, 1st grade flutes and 4th grade

Last week of school.....lots of parties and plays and water play days

Gnomes in a basket last few 1st grade flute cases. 26 kids in that class

3rd grade crochet stone soup puppets