Oh, Dearest Mother, Sweetest Virgin of Altagracia, our Patroness. You are our Advocate and to you we recommend our needs. You are our Teacher and like disciples we come to learn from the example of your holy life. You are our Mother, and like children, we come to offer you all of the love of our hearts. Receive, dearest Mother, our offerings and listen attentively to our supplications. Amen.



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Posted: Jan 16 2006 at 6:01am | IP Logged Quote Helen

Here are some of the links we used to supply pictures for the Fatima project:


picture of the Basilica:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=basilica+at+f atima&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-img-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UT F-8


Sr. Lucia's Vision:
http://www.immaculateheartworks.com/images/luciasvision.GIF


Jacinta, Francisco, Lucia:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=francisco%2C+ jacinta+lucia&fr=FP-tab-img-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

St. Michael
unusual image, trying to capture the idea of his brightness

http://www.stmichaelweststpaul.org/images/st-michael.jpg


The first Five Saturdays:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http% 3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dfirs t%2Bfive%2Bsaturdays%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fl%3D0%26imgsz%3Dall%26f r%3DFP-tab-img-t%26b%3D21&w=280&h=397&imgurl=www.fatima.org% 2Fessentials%2Frequests%2Fimages%2Fweapons1.jpg&rurl=http%3A %2F%2Fwww.fatima.org%2Fessentials%2Frequests%2Fweapons2.asp% 3Fprinter&size=8.2kB&name=weapons1.jpg&p=first+five+saturday s&type=jpeg&no=25&tt=35&ei=UTF-8



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Posted: Jan 16 2006 at 6:44am | IP Logged Quote amyable

I made them into clickable links for you.

Basilica

Sr. Lucia's visionj

Jacinta, Francisco, Lucia

St. Michael

I couldn't get the last one to work. Sorry!!

ETA: try this: First Five Saturdays This may not be the same thing that Helen chose though...

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Posted: Jan 16 2006 at 8:36pm | IP Logged Quote theNetSmith

Pics of Elizabeth's Juan Diego lapbook, which she described on the first page of this thread.




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Posted: Jan 16 2006 at 9:01pm | IP Logged Quote alicegunther

Oh, Elizabeth, how beautiful!

Your lovely photos reminded me of a Juan Diego paper doll project we created three years ago. I think I might combine your lapbook page layout with this doll to make our pages. Thanks for the great idea!






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Posted: Jan 17 2006 at 2:17am | IP Logged Quote Erin

Elizabetg
What a terrific idea. You've now got me thinking off on a rabbit trail as well.

You could also do a notebook on the different months of the year.
ie. November the month of the Holy Souls, May the month of Mary, June the month of the Sacred Heart etc. I'm showing my ignorance here as I don't remember them off by heart I'm sure many of you do. However you get the idea.

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Posted: Jan 17 2006 at 7:41am | IP Logged Quote Becky Parker

Just wanted to throw this in. I don't think it's been mentioned already, but here's a nice idea for Our Lady of Fatima: http://www.mariancastle.blogspot.com/
I love all of these wonderful ideas! Now I'm struggling with when we will use them. I have to make some time in my day for notebooks such as this.   I know my dd would love it.
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Posted: Jan 18 2006 at 3:23pm | IP Logged Quote ALmom

Elizabeth and Alice,

Your dc projects are absolutely beautiful - and your descriptions of your home and schooling are inspiring. I must say, I'd love to do something like this - but need to ask - are you or your dc particularly talented or craftsy? I have one dd who would run with the ideas. I'm afraid what the rest of us would do. We cannot even draw a straight line with a ruler - and many are still struggling with scissors. How did you get to the point where you could put together such beautiful ideas?

Will this post be around so we could try something like this in the summer when stress is less?

Has anyone done a Confirmation notebook? Guess that would be a different thread.

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Posted: Jan 18 2006 at 7:07pm | IP Logged Quote alicegunther

Dear Janet,

Many thanks for putting me in the same category as Elizabeth--I don't think I measure up, but I'm grateful just the same!   

No, I don't think all of our family is particularly talented in the crafts department, but we really enjoy them and like to dig in to a project. (I made the sample Juan Diego above--the ones the kids made three years ago were not quite so exact.) One of my daughters couldn't draw a thing until the age of six, and then suddenly she could draw quite well. You just never know with kids!

For me, ideas come in spurts. Sometimes I'll go a long stretch without much inspiration (and times like these I rely completely on the great ideas of others, like Elizabeth's Blessed Mother notebook). Other times, I'll have too many ideas to actually accomplish them all (or even most of them). It's all cyclical, I guess.

Do not worry about drawing for a project like this. I would just use Holy Cards, stickers, and collage materials or coloring pages if some of the children aren't as interested in drawing. It doesn't have to be beautiful or perfect. It could be a mishmash, but if the children are learning and loving it, that's worth so much.

You could definitely hold on until summer for this (this thread will be in the Living Faith archives), but sometimes it's fun to just dive right in while everyone else is working on a project. The momentum of others and having a place to compare notes on a nightly or weekly basis is one of the great benefits to a forum like this. Maybe you could do a Flylady--"You are not behind, just jump in where we are now"!

Once again, Janet, thank you very much for your kind words.

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Posted: May 02 2006 at 4:00am | IP Logged Quote MaryM

Bumping this thread for the month of May.

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Posted: May 02 2006 at 6:34am | IP Logged Quote Helen

When I originally posted, I didn't put the correct link to our Fatima Notebook. (I didn't know how to link to a post)
So here is the link directly to the project:
Fatima Notebook

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alicegunther wrote:
Dear Janet,

Many thanks for putting me in the same category as Elizabeth--I don't think I measure up, but I'm grateful just the same!   


My daughter found this very humorous since she thinks Alice is the perfect mother and the master craftsmen. I think the quote was "Same category for what???" .

This project has really slipped since this pregnancy began. Now I'm trying to decide what to do for May and what to save for later. I know we'll go to the Basilica for Christmas, so maybe we'll table the notebooks until fall and then pick them up again and try to finish before Christmas. And then we'll do those ornament in the Our Lady of Guadalupe thread and make a Mary tree right now. I thought about saving those for advent, but a Jesse tree, a Mary tree and a Christmas tree might be a bit much. OTOH, Mary Beth wants to do all the crafts Alice has posted lately...

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Oh I am getting such great ideas from you ladies! I can't wait to work on the Marian Notebook with my children. Thanks Alice and Elizabeth for posting photos. It helps me a lot to visualize projects otherwise I feel overwhelmed trying to do them when I don't know what they look like.

(I am one of those students in Tomie dePaola's Art Lesson book who just obediently followed the teacher's directions... and thus lost all ingenuity and creativity of my own. Can't seem to get it back even in adulthood.   )
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Elizabeth wrote:
Mary Beth wants to do all the crafts Alice has posted lately...


I have Gunther craft envy here as well. I don't know how Alice does it. Five weeks away from giving birth and she's as crafty as ever. I have about 12 weeks to go and all I want to do is nap.

I was thinking of making the Mary Notebook an ongoing project, a page here and there as we have time. That way I don't feel pressured to finish by any particular day. There are so many images, apparitions and titles to investigate.



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Wow! What beautiful ideas you all have! and here I am trying to re-invent the wheel...

we are getting geared up for a Marian lapbook that we want to run from May to August 15th. We are TRYING to get ready to plant our Mary garden and we thought we would tie that in with our lapbooks.

We have a nice tradition in our parrish where we bring flowers from our gardens to church on August 15th. They are blessed there then we place them on our homes- which for us would be at a special Marian prayer area we specially decorate for the occasion.

I am sooo psyched...now I have even MORE ideas from you....woah! I just got a digital camera hand me down from my sil...once I figure out how it works I hope we can share our work with you...I will at least post the pics on my blog...

Gunther craft envy...rofl...you are ALL so very creative!    What a blessing to know all of you!!

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Donna Marie wrote:

we are getting geared up for a Marian lapbook that we want to run from May to August 15th.


Brilliant! Donna has just extended this Marian frenzy from May through August! Now, maybe I can actually do it ALL! Or hey, how about September 8th?

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Elizabeth wrote:

Brilliant! Donna has just extended this Marian frenzy from May through August! Now, maybe I can actually do it ALL! Or hey, how about September 8th?


Yea! That'll work.
And, if all else fails, go through the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8th.   

No one should feel like they've failed our Lord and our Lady...or our children, for that matter.

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Elizabeth wrote:
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we are getting geared up for a Marian lapbook that we want to run from May to August 15th.


Brilliant! Donna has just extended this Marian frenzy from May through August! Now, maybe I can actually do it ALL! Or hey, how about September 8th?


I think the times when we are enjoying our gardens is the best time to do this project...when we weed it is just like a meditation of our spiritual life and our relationship with Our Lady...make the project a prayer!!...pull out them weeds ladies!! ha ha

but seriously...this CAN go on and on! I know I want to keep it simple...and keep adding on...I am afraid if I take on too much I won't finish...and I REALLY want to finish THIS project

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Yea! That'll work.
And, if all else fails, go through the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8th.   

No one should feel like they've failed our Lord and our Lady...or our children, for that matter. [/QUOTE]

Heck Cay...why stop there!!...there is always January 1st!      Then you can make a new years resolution to get it done by May!

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Posted: May 02 2006 at 1:55pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM

When I was searching for the Marian Image that Rebecca was requesting, I came across some other Polish madonna images that I thought would be nice, since Elizabeth was featuring the Polish art for a bit.

Polish Madonnas

a nice write up about Our Lady of Czestochowa


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Donna Marie wrote:

Heck Cay...why stop there!!...there is always January 1st!      Then you can make a new years resolution to get it done by May!


   You are too funny, Donna Marie!   

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