Tuesday, April 16, 2013

A Letter by Caleb, Age 12

Caleb wrote this letter to apply for his school's honor society.  It was so cute I had to share.  He's come a long way from snorting Smartie dust on the school playground!


Dear Ms. LaChine,
In my current school career I’m doing my very best to keep my amazing GPA I worked quite hard to achieve. I do all of the requested homework and occasionally missing work and my teachers give me great compliments on the work I have done in their classes. I am happy and having fun in my classes, I’m very proud of myself. As for future school careers I want to be enrolled in a four year college in Washington or Oregon. I want to study engineering and design because these things are very important in life and jobs.
As for my characteristics I’m very funny and zany but serious when needed. I’m zany when I’m with friends and family having fun. I’m serious when I’m in school and in serious situations like doing work I’m told to do. Some of my other characteristics are: I am helpful, giddy, loving, caring, charming and athletic. I like characteristics because it’s what makes you original.
I love being a leader in activities and events because I feel like I have something to show and I do show that. I also love being a leader because you can influence people to do good things. Being a leader is not just about being a leader its telling people what to do and about showing them how to do it to making sure they understand the task. When I’m a leader I take pride in what I’m leading and who I’m leading if it’s making people happy.
I have great citizenship because I love to help people and make them feel better. People are always saying what a great helper I am. I see myself as a great citizen because I love to participate in things that help people and make them feel better.  When I’m at a restaurant or store and I see loose garbage I will throw it away so the area will be clean.
I do lots of service in my community for the people in it. Every Thanksgiving my family and I deliver turkey dinners for the elderly. Even before I moved to Washington from Utah I delivered meals to the elderly and needy. I have also delivered free flowers to the elderly with my family. There is an elderly lady that lives across the street from my family and we help her out when she needs it. Also when I was in 5th grade I was a reading tutor to kindergarten students.
                                                                       
From, Caleb N. Farnworth


Tuesday, February 26, 2013

A New Project

This past Christmas I got a new sewing machine.  I wanted to do a sewing project to break in the new machine, learn how to use it and try out some new techniques.  I chose to make a new Christmas tree skirt.  I've wanted to make a new one for years, but never found a pattern for one that I would want to look at every Christmas for at least the next 20 years-until now.  Here it is:

It was very labor intensive, that's why I gave myself 11 months to get it done.  I'm happy to say I finished it in about 6 weeks.  There are 160 holly leaves and 120 buttons and sequins sewn on.  I was able to try out machine blanket stitching, machine quilting and working with bindings for the first time.  I watched many instructional YouTube videos along the way.  I love how it turned out and I LOVE my new machine.  It's made me excited about sewing again.  Now I have to put the tree skirt in the Christmas box until December. :(