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07 Mar

Our next clay model is going to be my favorite vegetable. As part of our homeschool handicrafts curriculum, we are working our way through the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin. This is model #33, which is a Windsor bean. As a kid, we called these beans "fat beans" and, no, they were NOT my favorite vegetable. I HATED these beans and would do anything to avoid eating them! My Mom would slip them into a dish of peas and carrots, hoping we wouldn't notice. But there was no mistaking the texture and flavor of...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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28 Feb

Today for our homeschool handicraft lesson, we are going to make a clay model of a poppy capsule. We are working our way through the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin. The poppy capsule is model #32, and once again, presented a real challenge to find! First of all, it's wintertime, and secondly, I've never seen an actual poppy grow near us. So, in what appears to be our norm, we found an alternate solution - a dried seed capsule of some sort. Along with a few pictures, we were able to make a poppy capsule....

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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22 Feb

After abandoning our design grid in our last lesson (and loving it!), for our brushwork lesson #18, we are returning to the grid. We are working through the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson, as part of our homeschool handicraft curriculum. Lesson #18 is a Lesson on Hares and Leaves. Now, I'm going to be honest - the hares may take a little imagination, and the leaves look a little more like lily pads, but again, this isn't about realism. Our goal is to practice and improve our brush forms, while enjoying the process. ...

12:25 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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14 Feb

We are officially half-way through the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin! After getting through 30 models, and with 30 more to go, we decided to treat ourselves with a new block of terra cotta clay. Our first block was getting old and hard, which makes it tougher to work with. Our new block was fresh and soft, which made our work more enjoyable - and that's always worth it! (Pro Tip: Try to purchase your clay at your local craft store. Presumably because of the weight, they are twice as expensive online!) A new...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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07 Feb

We went a little "off grid" in our last lesson and enjoyed it immensely. So, this week, we took it even further and did not even draw out the design on grid paper. This week's brushwork lesson #17, from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson, was a design on laburnum. It was basically four hanging branches of laburnum. There is no point to attempt to place each flower on the grid in a precise way, so we free-styled it and loved every minute of it! As we learned in Brushwork, Lesson #16, the laburnum is a small...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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31 Jan

Let's make a clay model of a Brazil nut! As part of our homeschool handicrafts curriculum, we are working our way through the book, A Manual of Clay-Modelling by Hermione Unwin. This is model #30, which has us halfway through the book! This seemed an impossible task when we started, so I'm pretty proud of us. If you are following along with us, creating each model along the way, I am so proud of you too! This is a process that takes commitment and a determination to get better, and that is so admirable. What are Brazil nuts? Brazil nuts are large,...

06:00 / Charlotte Mason / Craft Projects / Happy Handicrafts / Homeschool
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