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My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is … Sabrina Scheerer!!!
Sabrina Scheerer (sobyn, #3275) has received a certificate of achievement in Stitching & Crafting for earning a Beginner Level Crochet Merit Badge!
“1. I already know how to crochet.
2. I made chicken-themed pot holders for my project. These were double layered and required the two layers being crocheted together. It was fun and took me about 5 hours to make the mom and two babies. I also made the amigurumi chick in egg, all of these were for an MJF chatroom swap!
3. I taught my daughter to crochet. We did a simple dishrag with double crochet stitches. I got a picture of her working on it. She decided it would be better as a baby blanket than a dishrag!
It was fun to explore new crochet techniques and to teach my daughter. I look forward to the other levels of this badge.”
If you’re a Raising Jane regular, you’ll remember that my magazine designer, Carol, has a new hobby: junk sculptures. Carol’s creations are little, anywhere from an inch to a foot high, keeping them small enough to glue together. But look what she discovered while trolling for inspiration on Pinterest.
Photo, hitfull.com
According to HitFull.com, this baby is five times the size of a real elephant, weighs about 45 tons, and carries about 50 passengers at a time. It was created for “Machines of the Isle of Nantes,” a street performance festival in Nantes, France, from mostly recycled materials, and is fully articulated, moving with the help of 22 people who man hydraulics inside the statue. “The Great Elephant,” as he is called, can even trumpet like a real elephant, flap his ears, and spray water from his trunk. Watch him in motion:
When you boldly show your spirit,
Image courtesy of Muffet via Wikimedia Commons
follow your heart,
Image courtesy of the Imperial War Museum via Wikimedia Commons
speak your mind,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Officers_of_the_National_Woman%27s_Party_276045v.jpg
and shoot for the stars,
Image courtesy of SMU Central University Libraries via Wikimedia Commons
You, my friend, are a hoyden.
That’s a good thing—a great thing—to be.
A hoyden (HOID-n) is a boisterous, bold, and carefree girl who might also be called a tomboy, or a spirited … farmgirl.
Image courtesy of the Imperial War Museum via Wikimedia Commons
The world is yours to have, girlfren. Go wherever your heart leads you.
Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
