At the end of the school year the vast majority of uniform shirts are stained, missing buttons and otherwise “ot sa’at”. They can’t be passed down for the next school year, so I end up hoarding them in one of our large storage buckets in the storage room…knowing that there would be a future use […]
We were finally able to finish both areas and although it was beautiful and the kids LOVED walking by and admiring their personalized creations, I couldn’t stop thinking about the bottom wires. I hadn’t fully thought it through and made the holes too far apart, so the poor lower beads became dirtier every time we […]
All of the kids that were here, (some had left to visit family because of yet another school closure) completed their mini-works-of-art so it was time for another round of drilling holes. Once that was finished, the beaded wires could be strung into the bamboo. With help from the older kids and Dara, we dug […]
Some thought was put into a new border. I didn’t want to make the same as last time and rocks just don’t give it enough personality…so what to make? We still had some leftover bamboo, so wanted to include that in. Perusing the craft room for an idea to pop into my head, I came […]
We have the beautification bug! After the success of the completed first flower garden, it only made sense to start on an area next to it…since admiring one led your eyes to the other. I didn’t get a ‘before’ photo but you can see the overgrown area in the background of the group shot and […]
With the border completed, it was time for the final step, planting the flowers! It was not as nearly fun as I thought it would be…there were still so many rocks in the soil! I had to move a bucket with me so I had someplace to put the stones I dug out of the […]
After looking at the rock border for a few days, I wasn’t loving the look, it just seemed too symmetrical and plain. Hmmm, what about bamboo? YES! So, the rocks were carried back to their original place by the kids (who looked at me as if I was crazy) as I tried to figure out […]
So I thought that the next step would be buying flowers, but I quickly realized that the soil was hard and full of small rocks. It needed to be tilled and many of the rocks had to be removed before I could even think about planting. Enter eager helpers again! I would hoe a little […]
We get our liquid laundry soap in large tubs donated by Assistance Fund of Cambodia). We go through 2 large tubs every 6 months or so and the empty ones started to take up space in the laundry/storage room because I (Melinda) just couldn’t throw them away. A couple of them had been converted into […]
With everyone at home, because of school being out, there are plenty of hands and plenty of work to do. The little meditation boy, who is a leftover from the art classes a few years back and who once sat unnoticed at the edge of the Peace Garden pond but was transferred to another garden […]
