Swallow's Badge Work

Swallow made a pillow for her Textile Arts badge. The activity was part of the Career Exploration portion of the badge and Swallow needed to sew something to decorate 'various rooms' in the house. As shown here, the pillow does, indeed, decorate various rooms.

Photos coming soon due to technical difficulty.

A meeting of three

Duckie was at a sleepover during our most recent meeting, so it was just Sandpiper, Pelican, and Swallow. Since it was Duckie's job to plan the meeting and Sandpiper didn't realize until a day or so ahead that Duckie was missing the meeting, it was loosely planned, but a lot was accomplished.

Swallow and Sandpiper made peanut butter cup brownies for the snack, based on Swallow's choice. We didn't have a chance to plan a group activity that worked online, so the focus of the meeting was on Swallow's Textile Arts badge and she was able to complete three of the seven required activities toward the badge - now she has only two more activities to go, which we are hoping to wrap up soon.

Our meeting was plagued with some technical problems and once again we could see each other, but could not hear Pelican for the majority of the meeting. Pelican's husband came home toward the end of the meeting and we think we've found a permanent solution to that problem.

Before the next meeting, Swallow needs to plan her Dreams to Reality badge and contact an aunt who has agreed to help make Angry Swan badges. Duckie has quite a few things to do, which Sandpiper will work with her on. Sandpiper is going to work on organizing the craft room with a goal of making the area usable for crafting, including the troop meetings (Swallow's help is one of the things she'll need to do toward her badge).

Our swan figures joined in the meeting, which Swallow and Sandpiper really enjoyed, b/c they are silly like that. Everyone also remembered to wear their beads, also fun. Even though the meeting was planned on the fly, we think it went pretty well and a lot was accomplished.

The next meeting is January 30 and we have agreed to wear our Moon Pie shirts for the meeting.

Xmas vacation with Sandpiper, Swallow, Duckie and Blue Heron was a blast. We had our meeting, planned by me (Pelican) face to face, built gingerbread houses and worked on ocean badges (even though technically I live on the Gulf of Mexico), but to me, the water all goes into the same place. We ate pringles and drank fruit smoothies for a snack and played a new card game called Phase 10. Duckie taught me a new card game called Garbage, which she is very good at. Our vacation was action packed and I'm still recovering from all the walking and exploring we did. We experienced "mystic societies", ate throwed rolls, watched a moon pie rise over Mobile, collected sea shells and ate alligator bites just to name a few, and I stress "few" things we did. Sandpiper documented the entire experience through pictures and I can't wait to see them. Speaking of pictures, I will take pictures of my Christmas decorations before I store them for another year. I loved having y'all here and miss you already. See y'all soon via cyber space cam. Love to y'all. Pelican

An idea of mine...

So I had this idea that, since we live in different places, we could take pictures of our Christmas decorations, and post them on the blog. Hmmm? As many as you want. I would like it everyone would do this, please. So show us your decorations!

I really have to start being more efficient about this...

Sorry for being so late! It's been really busy lately, so any free time I've had on the Internet has been spent doing something time-wasting and unproductive. Anyway, our last meeting was on 11/28/08. It was planned by me. Everyone was present, and we discussed future meetings a bit, specifically the gingerbread house-making meeting, more about that later. We played Scategories (Sandpiper won by a landslide), and ate pints, as a snack. For badgework, I helped Duckie with her Alice puppet a little bit. We're still working on the same badges as last time. Our task for next time was to have the puppet done. I can tell you right now that it isn't.

Our next meeting actually is going to be pretty unique, because Sandpiper, Duckie, and I (oh, and Dad) are heading down to Alabama to see Pelican after Christmas. We'll have our meeting there, planned by Pelican. We'll bring the DVD of the Christmas dance show down. As we all know, the gingerbread house meeting was postponed, so we'll be bring the houses down then. Merry Christmas!

A Slightly Belated Update...

11/08/08. So, after many "I'll do it tomorrow"s, I've finally gotten around to updating. Our last meeting consisted of me (Swallow, in case you've forgotten, and couldn't identify the picture of a Greater Striped Swallow.), Duckie, and Sandpiper (Pelican was out of town.). We discused the Girl Scout options given to us, and have decided to go see the woman's gymnastics at U-M, and something involving syrup. We also fufiled the task from last week, which was to choose an award to try to get this year in Troop Angry Swan. Duckie (a Junior) is going to do all of the Signs (Sign of the Star, Rainbow, Sun and World), and Swallow (i.e. me) is going to do the From Dreams to Reality Award. Duckie is currently working on the "Arcitecture" badge and the "Sew Simple" badge. Swallow (mig*) is working on the "Textile Arts" badge.
For badge work, we worked on the Angry Swan quilt. All of the pattern pieces and the fabric is cut out, and we have sewn together the shield.
After that we had snack (Pringles) and watched a movie picked by Duckie (Colledge Roadtrip, which by coincidence had Molly Ephraim in it, and she was in the Into the Woods revival.). The meeting was planned by Duckie.
Before the next meeting, we all must do some badgework. The next meeting will be planed by Swallow (that's me), and will be on Nov. 28, 2008.

*Icelandic for "me"

Pelican

After last nights troop meeting my friend and I took a tour of downtown Mobile and we took lots of pictures for Ducky's architure badge. I think I got some good pictures, but won't know until I can download them to my computer. It will be interesting to see how many came out without being blurred (fast moving car vs camera being held by an injured hand....who will win?). Save some fish for this hungry pelican.