Days Fifty Five to Sixty: Earth, Air, Fire and... Seuss?

Day 55: We're having another Discovery Place program at the library. This time it's "Electrifying Attractions," all about electricity and magnetism. I designed the poster and flyer for it:



Day 56:

Light a fire
Let it fade to ember
Gaze at stars
And think "That's what we are."
Shining things
People fondly remember,
Long dead
By the time our light reaches this far.

Day 57: This may seem silly, but it's been forever since I've made a paper airplane, so that's exactly what I did. I made a few different kinds, but interestingly the one that flew best was the "test" one I made out of a pink post-it note. Go figure.



Day 58: I used oil pastels to draw two mini pictures: a tree with a stream behind it, and a red coffee cup.





Day 59: More work on the House-Between-the-Worlds story, including these lines:

Sometimes one of the adults has a strange dream, or a sudden inexplicable recollection. It could be anything… the sight of a building at the edge of a new town, a crooked tree, a snatch of conversation. Something triggers one of the memories hidden down deep, one the magic didn’t quite pull away completely. After such things happen, one or another of them may spend minutes, but often hours, writing down in detail all they can recall. They will discuss it with the others, see if it triggers anything else useful, anything more they can add to the never-ending puzzle of How-We-May-One-Day-Break-The-Curse-And-Return-Home-Again.

Day 60: Since it's Dr. Seuss's birthday, we had a Dr. Seuss event at the library. All attendees could enter a raffle to win tickets to the Charlotte Symphony Lollipops performance of Green Eggs and Ham. So I made this "hat" for them to drop their raffle tickets into. (That's where the disappearing pretzel container went, Mom!)



Now I'm off to New Orleans... we'll see what inspires me there!