Archive for the ‘hobbies’ Category

• NYR update

  Date: 2009.01.15 | Category: Bible Study, Gerneral, House, Preschool, hobbies, personal | Response: 0

  I am working diligently on my NYRs.

  I have mopped the kitchen 3 times this year and mopped the upstairs bathroom twice (#8).  I have been vacuuming 2-3 times per week (#7), and have concluded it may be time to replace all the flooring in this house! I have also done some more research on how to market my new online business, lexiraedesigns.etsy.com (#6)  Saturday I will attend a preschool open house at the public library, and  gather more information on #4.

  I’ve also started reading through the book of Proverbs again, one chapter per day, or 2 if I’ve missed a day.  In today’s chapter, 15, I noticed the repetition on heeding correction.  I also noted a repeated theme on wealth/poverty in my reading thus far.  So if you’re wondering what God thinks about global economics, read through Proverbs.   Here’s a sampling of what you will find, from the NIV biblegateway.com:

  1. Proverbs 3:16
     Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
     Proverbs 3:15-17 (in Context) Proverbs 3 (Whole Chapter)
  2. Proverbs 8:18
     With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.
     Proverbs 8:17-19 (in Context) Proverbs 8 (Whole Chapter)
  3. Proverbs 10:15
     The wealth of the rich is their fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
     Proverbs 10:14-16 (in Context) Proverbs 10 (Whole Chapter)
  4. Proverbs 11:28
     Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.
     Proverbs 11:27-29 (in Context) Proverbs 11 (Whole Chapter)
  5. Proverbs 13:7
     One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
     Proverbs 13:6-8 (in Context) Proverbs 13 (Whole Chapter)
  6. Proverbs 13:8
     A man’s riches may ransom his life, but a poor man hears no threat.
     Proverbs 13:7-9 (in Context) Proverbs 13 (Whole Chapter)
  7. Proverbs 14:20
     The poor are shunned even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.
     Proverbs 14:19-21 (in Context) Proverbs 14 (Whole Chapter)
  8. Proverbs 18:11
     The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it an unscalable wall.
     Proverbs 18:10-12 (in Context) Proverbs 18 (Whole Chapter)
  9. Proverbs 18:23
     A poor man pleads for mercy, but a rich man answers harshly.
     Proverbs 18:22-24 (in Context) Proverbs 18 (Whole Chapter)
  10. Proverbs 21:17
      He who loves pleasure will become poor; whoever loves wine and oil will never be rich.
      Proverbs 21:16-18 (in Context) Proverbs 21 (Whole Chapter)
  11. Proverbs 22:1
      A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
      Proverbs 22:1-3 (in Context) Proverbs 22 (Whole Chapter)
  12. Proverbs 22:2
      Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all.
      Proverbs 22:1-3 (in Context) Proverbs 22 (Whole Chapter)
  13. Proverbs 22:7
      The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
      Proverbs 22:6-8 (in Context) Proverbs 22 (Whole Chapter)
  14. Proverbs 22:16
      He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich—both come to poverty.
      Proverbs 22:15-17 (in Context) Proverbs 22 (Whole Chapter)
  15. Proverbs 23:4
      Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint.
      Proverbs 23:3-5 (in Context) Proverbs 23 (Whole Chapter)
  16. Proverbs 23:5
      Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
      Proverbs 23:4-6 (in Context) Proverbs 23 (Whole Chapter)
  17. Proverbs 24:25
      But it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.
      Proverbs 24:24-26 (in Context) Proverbs 24 (Whole Chapter)
  18. Proverbs 27:24
      for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.
      Proverbs 27:23-25 (in Context) Proverbs 27 (Whole Chapter)
  19. Proverbs 28:6
      Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse.
      Proverbs 28:5-7 (in Context) Proverbs 28 (Whole Chapter)
  20. Proverbs 28:11
      A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him.
      Proverbs 28:10-12 (in Context) Proverbs 28 (Whole Chapter)
  21. Proverbs 28:20
      A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.
      Proverbs 28:19-21 (in Context) Proverbs 28 (Whole Chapter)
  22. Proverbs 28:22
      A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him.
      Proverbs 28:21-23 (in Context) Proverbs 28 (Whole Chapter)
  23. Proverbs 30:8
      Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.
      Proverbs 30:7-9 (in Context) Proverbs 30 (Whole Chapter)

• Barbie’s Buttocks

  Date: 2008.08.14 | Category: hobbies, personal | Response: 0

  Some people envy Barbie. Others abhor her.  People rant about how Barbie gives young girls a distorted image of what they should look like when they grow up.  Until today, I remained neutral on the subject of Barbie.  But this afternoon’s attempt at dressing Barbie did not go well.  It was the fault of her disproportionate body — specifically her long legs and her buttocks.

  I have been playing in the kitchen since I was old enough to stand in a kitchen chair opposite the countertop from my mother. After over 30 years of playing in the kitchen, I still need to develop cake-baking skills.  I am not yet good at making Barbie Cakes.   Granted, I used the wrong size bowl, so Barbie was taller than the cake skirt.  I had extra cupcakes which I was planning on using to make up the additional height. I had calculated the extra cupcakes and frosting would make a “cute tiered” skirt that would make Cinderlla and Belle envious.  But I didn’t account for the circumference of Barbie’s hips which nearly equalled the circumference of the bottom of the cupcake.  I didn’t make the frosting; my friend made it, and it was a very delicious and soft buttercream frosting made with margarine.  She had the windows open in her house.  The frosting was getting softer with every layer I applied. We were using toothpicks to hold the additional pieces of cupcakes with frosting and they began to visibly slide down the side of the cake leaving Barbie with no butt.  When Barbie’s buttocks began to slide off, we “threw in the towel”.   We tried to remove the pieces of cupcake from her hipds to see if there were anyway to salvage what we had done.  After working on this for 90 minutes, making a second batch of frosting, and heaving many-a-sigh, I admitted that we should possibly consider purchasing a cake from Jewel.  Graciously, Andrea agreed.  I was so disappointed.  My sad eyes probably look like the eyes of a penguin from “The Littlest Pet Shop:” droopy with small tears in the lower corners.  I was hoping that this Barbie Cake would be amazing and beautiful and be the lovely creative contribution to Mackenzie’s party that no one else could bring.  

  Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” now plays on my computer while I type this story,  the story of a common woman attempting uncommon things. 

• Why I sew (offer your own punctuation)

  Date: 2008.04.12 | Category: hobbies | Response: 0

  Several weeks ago, I busted the knees out of a pair of jeans, but that was the only part that was worn out.  So for some reason i decided to make Rachel a little skirt out of the lower leg part that wasn’t worn out.  So I cut the legs off, cut them open, sew the 2 legs together, make the casing for the elastic, pressed the seams, and all was well until i started threading the elastic thru the casing . . . maybe i didnt have the right size casing/elastic but the non roll elastic was getting all rolled and bunched up in there and wouldn’t lay flat plus the saftey pin heads kept falling off in the casing so i had to rip open the casing in a couple of places in order to retrieve the broken safety pins and replace them so I could keep threading the elastic thru the casing.  It’s not like we’re poor and I have to recycle clothes in order to make ends meet. So then now I’ve removed the roly poly non roll elastic and I’m going to try a smaller width of elastic and hope this skirt will look decent once I’m done wrestling with it.  A 30 minute project has taken me over 2 hrs plus a trip to the store.  Later I’ll post a pic of the finished skirt.