Pretty much sums up my weekend.
Saturday morning I sang in the choir at an ordination -- six persons in our diocese were ordained to the transitional diaconate. God willing, they will all be ordained as priests. The ordination was held at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral. I don't know if I've been in the choir loft there before. One has to climb two flights of steps to get to the choir loft, but it's a wonderful place to sing from, and of course, see the service. We sang Palestrina's "Sicut Cervus," one of my favorite motets.
After the service, there was a lovely reception with great food. I snacked, visited, then headed north to Liberty to an open house for more great food. Snacked and visited, then headed over to church for altar guild duty. I was glad to get home, take the contacts out and just be with the hubster and her highness.
Yesterday I was at church again, with a choir rehearsal at 9am, along with setting up the altar, etc. Vacation Bible School is coming up and a friend and I are doing the music for it. I had volunteered my hot glue gun and my time to assist the two wonderwomen who are coordinating arts and crafts. They brought me bottlecaps and pin backs to glue together. Can I just say that these two women are brilliant? Our VBS crew has been meeting each Monday night for over a month, and each week these two bring craft prototypes that just knock your socks off. After seeing their work, I'm happy to lend my hands, 'cause these things just don't appear out of thin air.
So yesterday afternoon, Joel and I spent some quality time together with our glue guns. Here's the result:
Our workspace. Guess which work area is Joel's and which is mine?
Joel's workspace. Note that while the bottlecaps are sorted in the middle, he has selections from all three different images in his completed work.
Note the arrangement. First I did all of one set, then another, then started a 3rd. Anal-retentive? Let's just say I have a strong J in the MBTI -- ENTJ.
Oh, and one burned finger each. Ick.
Then last night I spent about 1.5 hours washing and ironing church linens. I have a neat stack to take in tonight-- VBS meeting tonight, so it'll be another evening at church!
handpainted bottle cap lapel pins - well ain't y'all fancy! :)
Posted by: Mark | Monday, 04 June 2007 at 05:09 PM
Oh it's better than that! Each night has a particular message, and the image in the bottle cap is a reminder of that message. Each child has a nametag with a ribbon hanging from it. And each night a bottle cap pin with the image for the night is added to the ribbon -- it's symbol AND attendance information all in one!
Actually, they're clever and fairly cute. No Popsicle stick crafts here!
Posted by: lauragayle | Tuesday, 05 June 2007 at 07:00 AM