What To Do With Leftover Treasures Rescued From An Attic Renovation

The story behind a certain activity and/or objects serves to document steps in a project, especially one of long duration. These may not be as personal as other forms of story but have value nonetheless.  Following is an example of such a piece. What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the houses […]

Repurposing Tree Bark Into A Landscape Carpet

“Giving Found Materials Fresh Form And Purpose” is one of the subjects shared about on this BLOG.  It falls under the FOUNDATIONS pillar of my Stonebridge.  In today’s terms it is called up-cycling, re-purposing or re-cycling.  In Kansas we just call it making-do!  Even tree bark gets into the act. This activity uses materials ranging […]

Happy Birthday Mom – A Love Letter

 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation. – Psalms 91:16  And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.  Genesis 6:3 I write a bit about my paternal DNA, the […]

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Lath and Porcelain – Leftovers From the Attic

What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the houses for you and me. We plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors, We plant the studding, the lath, the doors, The beams  and siding, all parts that be; We plant the house when we plant the tree. by the American author, Henry Abbey […]

Formed Out Of The Unseen – Limitlessness

I have been leading a class at my church using the book:  Living Forward.  We have been meeting on Sunday evenings for two hours.  Fundamental to this process is cultivating the ability to first,  acknowledge where one is at present and then to “see”, to imagine, to dream about how you want things to be formed. This takes courage, […]

Leftovers – The Loaves and Fishes of Life

Using leftovers.  I enjoy re-doing and re-making things.  I always have.  Taking what I have on hand and making something useful again: Whatever I might have in the pantry or frig becomes a one-time kind of meal. Pieces of cloth become a comforter, pillow or something for the wall. Scraps of wood become art, wooden […]

Four Examples of How To Renew Old Drawers

Drawer.  Noun: a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it. Origin & History of “drawers”:  A drawer is literally something that is ‘drawn’ or ‘pulled’ out. The coinage was perhaps based on French tiroir ‘drawer’, which was similarly derived from […]