Ponytails and Crayons/Dollygirl have the week off from classes. The Apprentice doesn't. But at least the weather is co-operating; it's funny how often we do have good weather during March Break. Ponytails will be doing some group sewing. I think Crayons wants to sew some doll clothes too. Last week we tried making a doll leotard out of some old Lycra leggings, but the stretchy stuff did not get along well with our sewing machine. We'll try something else this week.
I saw this vintage poster on A Peaceful Day, and you can read more about it on
Brain Pickings. Having a Chapters gift card from a recent birthday, I decided to take President Roosevelt up on his suggestion and ordered a few books I wanted to read but hadn't found in the used pickings. Helen Hanff's
Q's Legacy, Quiller-Couch's
On the Art of Writing, and
The Mind of the Maker should all be on their way here before the month's out, along with one book for Crayons' spring term.
(I have been reading
On the Art of Writing from the Bartleby site for awhile now, printing it out a lecture at a time, but decided a real book would be better. And I used to have
The Mind of the Maker, back in the prehistoric university days, but didn't properly appreciate it then and gave it away again. That and Harry Blamires'
The Christian Mind. I like passing books around, but really, those were two I should have hung on to, at least until I had finished reading them properly.)
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I totally enjoyed Q's Legacy recently, and downloaded all the Quiller-Couch books to my kindle as a result. I suspect I would prefer hard-copies of those, too, but I'm grateful for the technology that lets me have them at all (for free, even!).
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