From Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale

People disappear when they die. Their voices, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living mempry of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continut to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humour, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.

--Diane Setterfield



Friday, August 14, 2009

How To Test

I've made some Frog Prince / Swan Princess name and picture magnets for the nursery class I teach on Sundays. Having been inspired by other How-To'ers, I'm trying it out.
Here is what I did:
I started with templates I drew up. A frog, A swan, A crown, A circle, A rectangle.

Using the frog, I place the template and trace it.


Then cut it out.
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Measure out contact paper and position the frog and crown on half.

Then fold contact paper over the other half and trim the edges.

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Cut out the rectangle and circle (I juse a straight cutter and circle punch for them).
Lay down some packing tape, sticky side up.
place the rectangles on the tape and write the child's name.

Fold the tape up over the rectangles and trim excess tape off.
Repeat for the child's picture. Then Rubber Cement the name and picture to the animal.
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Then hot glue a magnet to the back of the picture.
ANd ta-da you're done.
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