Family & The City Museum [Take 2]

Weekend, weekend, you are blazing right on by!

There was no movement in our house today before 9am. I think the dog was probably up hours before anyone else was stirring. Hah. Once we did get moving, sluggish as that may have been, Joe took Tim & Lynn over to base to tour it. Heidi, Paul, and Jonathan made a stop over at Guitar Center to get some things straightened out for the new guitar that Paul’s been arranging to get for Jonathan. It’ll be his first Martin; we’re all pretty excited for him.

Early afternoon rolled around, and found me in the backseat with Jonathan as Paul drove us and Heidi into St. Louis for their first go at the City Museum [take 2, Cori!]. I was so excited to show them everything, as simple explanation does it very little justice. In no time at all, I was back in the museum’s lobby for the second time in 12 hours. We wasted no time in getting right to it, and spent the next four hours consumed in all of the twists of the interactive playground.

There’s an antiqued piano on the upper level, and Jonathan made himself right at home to entertain some passing patrons. I’m so proud of him and impressed by his musical talents! I thank God constantly for blessing me with the family He has, and for blessing them with the talents they have to develop.

All music aside, we happened by a room inhabited by Marion Nichols, author and craft master. It didn’t take much persuading to lure us into a free craft session. Of the wide span of Ms. Nichols’ genius, she has a whole line of books dedicated specifically to paper snowflakes. She can pretty much translate any object into a design for paper snowflakes. The tutorial we joined today involved us using paper snowflake-specific scissors to cut out the necessary parts on a template to create our own. We didn’t do too bad! Heidi’s was a fairy, Jonathan’s a musical treble clef, Paul’s an acoustic guitar, and mine a seahorse. Yeah, like I said. This lady’s got it all. 



crafty. oh so crafty.





Once we were through with the snowflakes, we decided to stick around for one more session with Ms. Nichols, who moved seamlessly into copper plating. This I’d never really done, so it was a bit interesting. For this one, Heidi landed a tiger, Jonathan a spider, Paul a treble clef, and me a fish. They actually came out pretty neat, in spite of our apparent inabilities to fold straight edges to finish them off before mounting. Haha. Oh, well. Still fun.

It was mid evening when we finally rolled back into our driveway. Paul & Heidi took off for a date night dinner, and I whipped up some Italian for all of us here. Once P&H returned, we took to some DIY and light guitar jam sessions before calling it a night. Here’s another Pinterest pin. Love love love.



old shirt = new scarf :)



Church tomorrow!

xo | cmd