Birthday Number: 68

 

68

2026

Baby Sloth

 

One of a kind. I made it up as I went along. 

Birthday Craft Club for an XI year old

Like the other birthday club, this will run for 6 months. 

The first project is building an Eiffel Tower out of cardboard. It took me a day to figure out the design and build it. Then another day to make a new set of parts and write the directions. It took an afternoon for the XI year old to build it. 

These photos show some of the process:

The second project will be building a kaleidoscope. The hardest part of preparing this project was finding reflective enough paper.

These are the elements:

The finished product:

The third project will be to make a pocket book using maps.

The elements:

The process:

This sets me up until September. The last 3 projects are in the design phase. 

Birthday Number: XI

 I decided to introduce Roman Numerals after I saw a post on Instagram where the person wrote about Artemis 11 - as in, Artemis eleven. I can see where different fonts can lead to confusion, but still, here is a quick review: I - 1; V - 5; X - 10; L - 50; C- 100; M - 1000

 I am LXIX years old. Figure it out. 

The birthday number for an 11 year old:

In this case, there is trouble with the reverse side because it means 9!

Marbles

 

The needlework Klimt from the previous post was a kit. There were extra strands of all the colours. It took me a little while to come up with an idea about what to make from a single strand. I made marbles. 

 

Needlework Backpack

 I have wanted to do a needlework for a while. I thought the activity might be fun. It was fun. I might do another ..... if I can think what to do with it. 

This one became a backpack. 

Book Review

 I have been turning these Journals into houses since August 2022. I started viewing the journals as an art supply when it became clear to me that there would be no way to rehome them besides the recycling bin. I read these journals from cover to cover when they came into the house, and I read them again before I "worked" on them. That is not bad for an academic journal.  

I present here the links to the complete set: 

1) Book House  

2) Book Village

3) Two Streets Book: Upper Street and Lower Street

4) Book Neighbours

5) Book Apartments

6) Empty Nest Book

7) Book Faerie House

8) Book: Hanging House

9) Book: Bee House

10) Book Room

11) Book Burrow

12) Three Villages Book

13) Book: Tree House