You have been a month filled with letters, poetry, and gardening. National Letter Writing Month and National Poetry Month have concluded, but letters and poetry will continue being written by folks who love to write and receive letters and by poets who, thank heavens, spill their words onto paper.
Gardening will continue as well--for a while at least around here. It was 85 degrees (29.444 C) yesterday (plus humidity which makes it feel even hotter), and I was a hot sweaty mess early. May will be reaching even higher temperatures and higher humidity, and enthusiasm for any real outdoor labor will begin to wane.
Last of incoming April mail from Jacque!
I love all the little envelopes. They are hard
to see in this pic, but are such fun to open. :)
Last of April's Outgoing Mail
I wanted to try a tessellation and looked at Pinterest for some tutorials. One took me to a Youtube video, which I tried:
I made my square, cut into two sides, moved and pasted the pieces, and came up with a template I used on the envelope below.
The first creature I "saw" looked a little like a friendly dinosaur.
back of envelope
I turned the template I made in another direction
and"saw" another creature hiding in the greenery.
Turned it again and saw a creature with horns.
Same template, three versions.
I'm going to play with these some more. There are plenty of Pinterest and Youtube tutorials about different kinds of tesselations.
to TES
My desk at various stages last month
watercolor sheet with drawing and stamping
after cutting out all the little drawings,
I draw on some of the scraps
Then I send the cut out pieces through my little Xyron sticker maker--
finally having replaced the cartridge after nearly two years .
Saves my fingers from some of the sticky glue stick messes.
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