Maker Monday: starting with a list

Dan and Maeve making adjustments to the tower windows.

Toast in front of us (we found and bought a toaster!), the kids and I decided to begin our Maker Monday by making a list of what we'd like to make over the next few weeks:

• Coasters (Maybe a set of those made from rolled-up magazine page coils? I have a feeling it might be one of those things that looks way more easy and beautiful on pinterest.) Though we've had some cool coasters over the years, never not ever have I used them. But here, the glasses sweat a lot, leaving marks on all the furniture that isn't ours.
  
  
• Lifes-size Olive Ridley Sea Turtle model from papier mache (with sea turtle facts painted or pasted on the shell)



Sam, at work on the turtle (/dented truck)

• Sea Turtle Quilt (using different patches for each scute on the turtle's shell, each one  decorated to show a threat to the turtles and a way to help) Hopefully this will be ready to sew together, just as Grandma arrives!
• A cover for the hole of terror (see previous post by Sam about the house. Absolutely no need for it to be decorative, just functional.)
• Mango jam (to go with said toast) and dried pineapple
• Handkerchiefs (to wipe away our sweat and keep in our back pockets)
• Homemade stuff to keep the ants out of the kitchen (a vinegar potion?)
• A direct path through the jungle to the town and beach. Dan has already macheted through part way! It's going to be a steep climb though, even if the vines and bush (and creatures?) can be kept at bay.
• A direct tunnel between the Toronto Public Library and our house (okay, now we're just getting whimsical.)

Room With a View

It was one of those days where it was more fun making the list and doing research about the items on our list, than actually getting started on things. We did manage to get the 'escuela' (classroom) mostly set up and begin work on the papier mache turtle. (This should be a completely peaceful project, given our awe of the turtles and how goopey-fun paste is AND that our view while working was the ocean itself!!! Somehow though, tears of frustration can still overflow when a turtle shell looks more like a dented pick-up truck.) Also, in the category of making things...For dinner, I cooked our first gallo pinto, Costa Rica's traditional dish. It was good! Today was the first day that we got caught in a deluge of pouring rain so maybe we should also had ponchos to the list of things to make.