verbal craft

i have a natural interest in textile craft.  my craftiness finds its home most often in crochet, knit, and traditional & abstract weaving.  outside of the common use of yarn, some of the materials i have infused in my work include: t-shirts, plant matter, shopping bags, papyrus, wire, and balsa wood.  however, i think i am taking my passion to a whole new level.  today's material of choice:  words.

i am surrounded by 1,852 pages of text separated into nine books developed by five different publishers with one common theme:  literacy acquisition.  i am attempting to craft them into a cohesive program.  without losing any of the elements i think are most beneficial.  

i am nuts.  or on my way there if not already present and accounted for. 
remind me again why i teach in a place where it is necessary to drive and shape your own curriculum? 

and so the term "back to the grind" is officially resonating.  this is what i'll look like most weekends from this point on...

FYI:  i'd much prefer to be concocting a yarn bomb concept.