My Moz in Review: #1 Santa's Dreamy, but Incompetent Elf

As stated in the below blog, I have two months of a four-year assignment with MCC left. I'm always a sucker for those "Year in Review" things in magazines. I just like remincsing (I should remenisce back to the days I studied for the spelling bee and knew how to spell the word...someone help me!) So I want to do some sort of reflection through pictures. I've chosen some pictures that I feel like represent some event or something that triggered a change in my life while in Moz. The review will be incomplete, of course, but so be it...

This is the picture that made me think of doing this:

I recall feeling empowered the day I painted these coconut shells and took my first baby step out of my toy-making dreamworld. My idea with these was that they could be like stacking cups. It didn't really ever fly. But that's not the point, the point is that I put an idea that I had into practice. One of the lessons that keeps swinging around and kicking my behind is this: "Ideas are easy to have, hard to put into practice." I've been so excited about making toys for the past five years, and have had a bijillion ideas, but only a few of them have come out in material form. And what's more is that probably even fewer of them will be used here after I leave. But what's important to me is that some of them did come out and some of them are being used. And my own motivation made that happen. (It's not very often that that's the case).

Counting beads: an example of something a teacher did put to practice

Clay puzzles I made: and example of something that hasn't yet been put into practice