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Since it’s apparently taking seven days (!) for a piece of first class mail to get from her city to the neighboring one (35 miles away), Chick figured that if she’s going to make any Valentines this year she better get a move on.

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How much of the candy actually ends up on the house and how much gets eaten along the way?

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When not filming art teachers’ instructional videos at the Museum this week, Chick could be found beak to laptop in every part of the house madly video editing and creating instructional drawings in Adobe Illustrator (which might be her new favorite thing, by the by.) Her eyes are bleary, and there’s still more to finalize by midweek in time for summer “camps,” but she’s proud of what she’s created.

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Chick is a pretty humble bird most days, but I convinced her that people enjoy seeing her and she could share her interest in making things by selling kits to people who wanted to sew their own little green chick figurine. The possibility for sewing and getting others interested in sewing helped her get past making a modified likeness. Stay tuned for the new shop announcement.

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Among the things that are different during pandemic life: Chick has started cooking lunch.

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When she learned to sew, it was to make clothes or napkins or curtains—even dolls. The thought never crossed her mind that she’d ever make a beak mask to wear out in public.

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One of the little things that makes Chick happy is ordering nice stamps from the post office. She doesn’t understand why people would buy a roll of plain stamps when for the same exact price you can have wonderful varieties of stamp art.

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Chick has cut some really cool envelope blanks from old magazine pictures; the next step is to fold them.

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Chick has decided that this is a good time to make and send some mail art. She’s started by gathering magazine pages and old wall calendars so she can use them to make cool envelopes.

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Chick isn’t used to measuring in metric, but the math is sure easier.

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Putting together the furniture in this kit was one thing—Chick now thinks she’ll be cutting cardboard templates for the next month... She’s making slow and steady progress on this overcast and icy day.

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For Christmas, Chick was given a greenhouse kit, but I mistakenly thought it was for me and started putting things together. It’s a big undertaking, but this little bird wanted to help with the construction so we’re going to divide and conquer. She only needed a little assistance with sawing the dowels.

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For Christmas, Chick was given a greenhouse kit, but I mistakenly thought it was for me and started putting things together. It’s a big undertaking, but this little bird wanted to help with the construction so we’re going to divide and conquer. She only needed a little assistance with sawing the dowels.

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Part 3: Chick folds an origami tulip. View on the blog (adventuresofchick.tumblr.com) for descriptions of each step.

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Part 2: Chick folds an origami tulip.

Stay tuned for the final steps…

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Part 1: The little green chick folds an origami tulip. 

She helped me out at a museum event this week for The Artist’s Garden at Reynolda. We hung out and taught people how to fold origami flowers in the Reynolda Gardens greenhouse. Stay tuned for the next steps.