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The Friday Five and Weekly News
Jul. 2nd, 2022 02:37 pm1. What's your favorite crafty activity?
I like fiddling with photos. I made quite a few scrapbooks of my kids photos before everything went digital. Then I started using Photoshop.
2. What got you into it?
An old acquaintance from my parents' church days lives near me and she was into selling scrapbook materials and having little workshops so she asked if I'd be interested.
3. What was your favorite arts & crafts project as a kid?
Paper mache, pottery, macrame, cross stitch, friendship bracelets... My parents used to get me little carpet design sets and I enjoyed that too. They are called latch hook rug sets I guess?There was a plastic square, a hook and short yarn pieces which you could hook onto the square and make a little carpet. I'd like to try to do macrame again for a pot hanger. At camp during the summer, we also did some leather craft. I loved working with glass too. I pretty much love all kinds of crafts.
4. What has someone made for you?
My daughter made me an origami flower for mother's day. That was super sweet <3 My son Julian was in the pottery club at HS (sounds super dorky, but this was an art major school so just one of many art clubs they had.) They sold their work at their festivals and I have some of his work.
My aunt made Audrey and I some aprons, I also have baby blankets and clothes crocheted by various aunts, both from when I was born, and my kids.
5. Are there any unfinished projects in your life you need to pick back up?
My writing projects mainly, but also I do have a cross stitch I started when I was in the hospital with Audrey that is unfinished. Maybe one day.
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I started a new program online called the Hyperbolic Stretching Program. I worried over it for quite a while. I've been wanting to be able to do the splits and have been stretching, first on my own and then using various youtube videos. I feel like I'm almost there, but I've come to a plateau again and I needed something new. Because of my interest, all these programs have been popping up both on youtube and on facebook. Two programs I was drawn to - one was a Japanese yoga program, the other was this. Yoga always takes a lot of time, and from experience, I didn't think I could continue it, plus this program was only 30 bucks for life long membership, like my diet program. 30 bucks is an amount I don't mind losing even if it doesn't work. So, what the heck, I clicked. I'll let you know when/if it works.
I can't believe it's Saturday already, and July already! Wow. I have three weeks off this summer, and hopefully we can go up to Yamagata as a family this year after being away for 3 years. Hubby's friend lives up there and has a cabin in the mountains so it had become a summer trip every year until COVID happened. Personally, I'd rather go to Izu, but it may be our last summer up to Yamagata as a family, with Alex looking for a permanent job and probably leaving home. He has applied to various companies and is upto the second interview with two. One is a pretty big furnature company with it's main office in Hokkaido and also based in Nagoya. He'd be working with suppliers abroad, in Asia and the US, in the future but would be jumping around various shops in Japan as a first year so he will probably be living far away :( It can't be helped I suppose. He has applied to a big Japanese travel company, specifically it's international devision, and has passed the first document phase. This is his first choice, and I hope he gets it because he is interested in helping tourists etc in the bilingual capacity. But, the furnature company seems to be really good to its employees too, with various training etc. and he is excited about the prospect too.
( See pics )
I like fiddling with photos. I made quite a few scrapbooks of my kids photos before everything went digital. Then I started using Photoshop.
2. What got you into it?
An old acquaintance from my parents' church days lives near me and she was into selling scrapbook materials and having little workshops so she asked if I'd be interested.
3. What was your favorite arts & crafts project as a kid?
Paper mache, pottery, macrame, cross stitch, friendship bracelets... My parents used to get me little carpet design sets and I enjoyed that too. They are called latch hook rug sets I guess?There was a plastic square, a hook and short yarn pieces which you could hook onto the square and make a little carpet. I'd like to try to do macrame again for a pot hanger. At camp during the summer, we also did some leather craft. I loved working with glass too. I pretty much love all kinds of crafts.
4. What has someone made for you?
My daughter made me an origami flower for mother's day. That was super sweet <3 My son Julian was in the pottery club at HS (sounds super dorky, but this was an art major school so just one of many art clubs they had.) They sold their work at their festivals and I have some of his work.
My aunt made Audrey and I some aprons, I also have baby blankets and clothes crocheted by various aunts, both from when I was born, and my kids.
5. Are there any unfinished projects in your life you need to pick back up?
My writing projects mainly, but also I do have a cross stitch I started when I was in the hospital with Audrey that is unfinished. Maybe one day.
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I started a new program online called the Hyperbolic Stretching Program. I worried over it for quite a while. I've been wanting to be able to do the splits and have been stretching, first on my own and then using various youtube videos. I feel like I'm almost there, but I've come to a plateau again and I needed something new. Because of my interest, all these programs have been popping up both on youtube and on facebook. Two programs I was drawn to - one was a Japanese yoga program, the other was this. Yoga always takes a lot of time, and from experience, I didn't think I could continue it, plus this program was only 30 bucks for life long membership, like my diet program. 30 bucks is an amount I don't mind losing even if it doesn't work. So, what the heck, I clicked. I'll let you know when/if it works.
I can't believe it's Saturday already, and July already! Wow. I have three weeks off this summer, and hopefully we can go up to Yamagata as a family this year after being away for 3 years. Hubby's friend lives up there and has a cabin in the mountains so it had become a summer trip every year until COVID happened. Personally, I'd rather go to Izu, but it may be our last summer up to Yamagata as a family, with Alex looking for a permanent job and probably leaving home. He has applied to various companies and is upto the second interview with two. One is a pretty big furnature company with it's main office in Hokkaido and also based in Nagoya. He'd be working with suppliers abroad, in Asia and the US, in the future but would be jumping around various shops in Japan as a first year so he will probably be living far away :( It can't be helped I suppose. He has applied to a big Japanese travel company, specifically it's international devision, and has passed the first document phase. This is his first choice, and I hope he gets it because he is interested in helping tourists etc in the bilingual capacity. But, the furnature company seems to be really good to its employees too, with various training etc. and he is excited about the prospect too.
( See pics )