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Apr. 9th, 2003 09:13 amI am bereft of a theme for today's post I'm afraid. It may come off as a series of random thoughts, so I apologize in advance.
Got home from my errands last night in time to water the plants, also noted that the mostly dead strawberry plant is producing what look to be huge fruits. Thank the gods I'm an optimist when it comes to my little green babies, and that my composting skillz rule. I'm quite convinced the combination of good soil, compost, and some moisture retaining moss is going to lead to a kick ass strawberry patch this year. That is if I can keep the snails at bay. A trip to OSH should take care of that problem. Yay copper!
Aelf and I settled in for some crocheting and "Stargate" last night, got my sister L-'s afghan finished and started on my own. Woo! Love the navy-grape color and I've got enough purple homespun to create a kickass border on it. Of course I'll be finishing it up just as the weather gets warm 'cause that's how my life works. At least I've got the veil to work on too, a lapfull of veil is a lot less heavy and warm to work with. Must get more trim for that.
Must...practice...dance...tonight. I have too many choreography ideas and not enough time to actually work on them or even jot them down. I've got my own choreography pretty well worked out in my head, it's just a matter of trying to emulate it physically, that's the tricky bit.
Also, for anyone interested in learning to drum or who'd like to practice with their zills![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aelfsciene picked up some fantastic practice mixes from Alyne on Monday. Most of one CD is drumming stuff and the rhythms start with a fairly simply beladi and then escalate into complexity later on. I have this vision of a bunch of us sitting around on my deck with the music playing in the background while some play drums and others keep time on their zills. Sound like fun to anyone else?
And for those of you who haven't done so yet, take at least one of Alyne's classes. Seriously, do it. I don't often go over the top praising a teacher, but even my kindest words for her are not nearly enough to describe my respect and admiration of the lady's talent and generosity of spirit. Anyone even considering it please check out her site bellydance.com, or ask me for more details. She will be holding a double veil workshop this Sunday, and the beginners class is just that, no experience necessary! If you've ever had any desire at all to give veils a try this is the perfect chance to do so. She even has loaner veils, so no excuse not to go, got it?
( And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all... )
Got home from my errands last night in time to water the plants, also noted that the mostly dead strawberry plant is producing what look to be huge fruits. Thank the gods I'm an optimist when it comes to my little green babies, and that my composting skillz rule. I'm quite convinced the combination of good soil, compost, and some moisture retaining moss is going to lead to a kick ass strawberry patch this year. That is if I can keep the snails at bay. A trip to OSH should take care of that problem. Yay copper!
Aelf and I settled in for some crocheting and "Stargate" last night, got my sister L-'s afghan finished and started on my own. Woo! Love the navy-grape color and I've got enough purple homespun to create a kickass border on it. Of course I'll be finishing it up just as the weather gets warm 'cause that's how my life works. At least I've got the veil to work on too, a lapfull of veil is a lot less heavy and warm to work with. Must get more trim for that.
Must...practice...dance...tonight. I have too many choreography ideas and not enough time to actually work on them or even jot them down. I've got my own choreography pretty well worked out in my head, it's just a matter of trying to emulate it physically, that's the tricky bit.
Also, for anyone interested in learning to drum or who'd like to practice with their zills
aelfsciene picked up some fantastic practice mixes from Alyne on Monday. Most of one CD is drumming stuff and the rhythms start with a fairly simply beladi and then escalate into complexity later on. I have this vision of a bunch of us sitting around on my deck with the music playing in the background while some play drums and others keep time on their zills. Sound like fun to anyone else?And for those of you who haven't done so yet, take at least one of Alyne's classes. Seriously, do it. I don't often go over the top praising a teacher, but even my kindest words for her are not nearly enough to describe my respect and admiration of the lady's talent and generosity of spirit. Anyone even considering it please check out her site bellydance.com, or ask me for more details. She will be holding a double veil workshop this Sunday, and the beginners class is just that, no experience necessary! If you've ever had any desire at all to give veils a try this is the perfect chance to do so. She even has loaner veils, so no excuse not to go, got it?
( And though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all... )
