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Slice of Life Challenge Day One (SOLC: 1) Crochet Butterflies

Posted in Slice of Life, Writing, tagged , , , on March 1, 2026| 13 Comments »

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Get ready, readers, today is the first day of March which means for the next two months I will be posting daily. In March for the Slice of Life Challenge hosted by the Two Writing Teachers and in April for National Poetry Month.

In the early days of February I was babysitting my grandson in New Orleans. I went on a walk around their neighborhood and found a cute Little Free Library. In the box, there was a small clear ziplock holding a crocheted butterfly.

Jasmine Little Free Library free gift.

I crochet and have a crochet group I attend at the local Methodist Church. I brought this along to see if anyone could figure out how it was made. We discussed it. Then I realized that YouTube would be my best bet for finding the pattern. https://youtu.be/0roMpWheBec?si=oHX52nLBuufWV7GL

I made one using some left over rainbow yarn.

My rainbow butterfly

Isn’t it adorable? I decided all my grandchildren will be getting butterflies in their Easter baskets.

Do you have a hobby that is soothing and fun to share with others?

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Slice of Life: Bookstore Magic

Posted in Slice of Life, Writing, tagged , , on January 17, 2017| 16 Comments »

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New Orleans Little Free Library

I took the opportunity of an extra day this weekend to visit my daughters in New Orleans.  My cousin and his family met me for lunch on Monday.  Then we headed over to Blue Cypress Books, an uptown used book store.  I listened while my cousin’s wife read aloud to her second grader.  I pulled favorite books off the shelf to suggest to the 5th grader.  We made our book stacks.

“Mom, how many books can we get?”

“When it comes to books, we don’t set a limit.  We look at which ones we really want to read.”

I wandered over to the poetry section.  Have you ever had a book call out to you?  Say, “Here I am waiting for you!”

I picked up “A Year with Rumi” and opened to January 17th.  How did Rumi know that this was the poem I needed today?  Book magic happens in used bookstores.

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On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day I also bought two quote magnets.  Bookstore magic.

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