Some little poems I wrote today...

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Another lie

Never truthful

Torn

Heart

Opened wounds

Now closing

Yielding to reality

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Honesty

Open hearts

Never failing

Everlasting

Sweet love

True dreams

Yearning forever

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Living together

Accepting your

Unwavering love  

Reservoir of

Ample blood

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Journey

Among our lives

Steadfast

Open hearts

Never wavering

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RIP Aunt Janet

Yesterday we said goodbye to my beautiful Aunt Janet. Her boys did a wonderful job speaking today, she would be so proud of them!  Here is the slideshow I put together for her sons.

Poem for my Uncle Reuben

My beloved Uncle Reuben passed away in January, it's been a great loss to all of us.  For all that he did wrong in life, he did an equal amount of right, you just couldn't help but love him.  Family meant everything to him and you always knew you were loved when you got one of those big hugs from him.  He wasn't one of those men that held his feelings in, you always knew where you stood with him.

There so much I could say about him, but I just knew I couldn't get up in front of all those people at the service to say it.  The morning of his service this poem just came to me, I had to write it down and all I could find was post-it notes, so I wrote it down on a bunch of them!  In the car on the way to the service my oldest daughter kindly copied them on to a sheet of paper so I wouldn't had to stand with all these post-it's in my hand.  I waited to read it at the graveside.  I was so nervous, I hate to talk in front of lots of people (and there was a lot there!) and I usually talk so quite but I just knew I had to do it or regret not doing it.


So here is my poem that I read, it's my take on an Irish blessing, even though my Uncle didn't have any Irish in him unless it was whiskey!


May you have arrived to open gates


May you have arrived to open arms of those gone before


May have all your troubles, sorrows, pain been lifted;
Lifted from your weary soul


May the golden warmth heal your broken heart, 
warm your cold hands


May your days now be filled with peace; 
your dreams of happy times


May you watch over the ones you left behind; 
their hearts filled with sorrow and pain


May you help ease their pain with memories; 
Memories of better times


May you warm their cloudy days with rays of light from above


May when they reach the end, you be standing; 
Standing at the open gates with arms opened wide,
To welcome them home.

And as many said at the service after I read it, Amen.

Picture of my Uncle Reuben that I took at his daughter Felicia's wedding  a few years ago.

~Laura Fedak, Written January 2012

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Craziness (Amber's poem)

Amber had to write a poem for school, the teacher gave them the words in red and the students had to feel in from there.  The first thing they had to do was pick an emotion or state (like state of mind), Amber picked craziness.   There was a name for the type of poem but I can't remember what it's called. 


Here's Amber's poem....




Craziness


Craziness is a bright RAINBOW, twisty in the  blue gray sky
It tastes like sweet candy oozing caramel
It smells like nectarous honey suckles brightening the awful day up.
It reminds me of  jumping  around when I am excited
It sounds like crackling hyena dancing in the night
Craziness makes me feel like I’m swimming through a colored sky.

Homemade Cork Board

So I saw a picture of project making a cork board from wine corks (probably on Michael's site, I'm dangerous in that store!) and decided to try it out.

I started out getting enough wine corks for the project from my mom (thanks mom!) and an 8x10 picture frame (just a cheap one).  I left it up to hubby to figure out how to make the picture frame into a shadow like box for me (he's so sweet) and then painted the whole thing black.

Plain Jane picture frame

Hubby cutting back from my frame :)

Modified Back of the picture frame (thanks hubby!)

Frame painted and waiting on corks

Before I actually did any gluing of the corks I layed out my design inside the frame first.  Since corks are not all the same size hubby had to cut some small pieces down for me to fit in on the sides.

Testing out the fit.

You'll see in the finished project I did end up change how some of the corks laid around the F, it looked better to me as I was gluing them in place (that or it was the glue high telling me it looked better!!!).  For the corks that made up the F, those were stood up straight and cut in approximately half so they were the same height as the corks laying down.

Hung with a ribbon in my new beading area (that's another post!)

Melted Crayon Art

I meant to post this like 2 weeks ago, things just got in the way!  Enjoy. 

So I saw on another bloggers site (here and here) about an art project melting crayons on canvas and just had to try it with the girls.  On Sunday after going to Michael's to get some canvas, the car battery dying, my husband having to come jump the car off, we headed home to start our project but got side tracked with getting Chinese food from ChopStix with my friend Robin.

Finally we settled down to start our art project.  We all decided to peal the labels off the crayons not knowing if the paper would catch on fire or not with the heat gun we were going to use.

Robin waiting to get the glue from my girls!

          Amber not wanting to share the glue...

 Daryan said it was not ready to have it's picture taken!

Amber watching the "LOL Cow" one getting melted.

AND the finished projects, hubby made the frames for them.  These are hanging above the girls desk area.  Somehow I missed taking a finished one of Robin's "melting love" and Amber's "lol cow" once they were framed.  Amber gave the "lol cow" to her best friend, of course she LOVED it!  Strange kids...