been working on a 6 Nations board game: players learn Oneida words while 'travelling' around Turtle Island. Players roll die, move through the phases of the moon, draw a card to learn what to collect on the way: eg. corn, fish, lacrosse stick ... each with a different point value ... high points win. Anne loves it and asks to play again right away x 2!
So, gotta attend to some more details.

Tim's teabags

the shirt was an item I started this season with the plain green and white paper China teabag cover and then adapted Tim's when I figured out a way to get the logo placed. The Tim 'location' was a natural progression of the house first tried last year. I came upon one I'd left in a Reader's Digest page I may have used as a bookmark and forgot. Of course the turtle came from a calendar set and they stand up ;) as do the buildings if you get them just 'so'.

she:koli ... here's the origami Tim Horton's teabag covers I made a couple weeks ago. This year's 'batch' started prior to xmas with the green tea paper decorations then moved on to Tim's wrappers for more material. When I began to look at how to keep the logo showing or at least recognizable, I knew they might be interested. I sent a couple photos and ideas for them as I'd made a 'tree' by then for delivery to the local Tim's. It will be awhile but there is a meeting scheduled with Tim's 'people' in the near future where a contest will be discussed using the folding instructions online.

She:koli swakwe:ku wanisliyo [wah nee slee yo] nice day! The sun is shining and a 'balmy' breeze is warming up the winter air ;) ... was out to 'the farm' with goods yesterday so, the dreamcatcher greeting card and quill earrings shown here are not available. I will change the photo to show another example of a set as, the pieces are one of a kind yet of a similar style. So that if you asked for a dreamcatcher greeting card, it would look similar with another picture. Yes, I could make more than one with the same picture/background etc. but then it's not obviously one-of-a-kind, but just slight changes in feather placement, colours etc. ... once you begin to make a lot of the same thing, the creativity and uniqueness fades. ... gotta go get groc. ...

She:koli again ... I had a fruitful day yesterday; had a planning meeting then went to UWO to hear Marie Battiste, a very learned prof. talk about bringing the native perspective into the conventional curriculum, something I've been doing for awhile ... it's my passion to get teachers at all levels to deliver this content to their students. There just aren't enough of "us" to go 'round ;) . My colleagues are keen to have my work published [I showed them the mini-book] for the masses, but I'm not sure I'm ready or knowledgeable about how to do it. Anyway, I'll update about that later. Meanwhile I'll be busy planning a workshop that we're going to hold on a Sat. in the spring. As one of the presenters [cornhusk dolls etc.] and an organizer, it will be a big job to pull it all together. The other thing that was fruitful about the day was finding out how to get the teaching kits I've made into the local school board media centre. So I'll be making more of them; lesson plans and directions for some of the pieces shown here are part of those kits. They're fairly easy to follow, but much better showing the students and teachers in person. One colleague will have me in her class in Feb. so that's another set of staff who'll hopefully draw on my resources. Well, so much for now ... better get to work!