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The Logic of the Trinity
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Roughly, the problem of the Trinity is the problem of how God can be one and yet be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, which are three, not one. That one thing is identical with three distinct things seems to violate traditional laws of identity. I propose a solution to this problem according to which it is just an ordinary claim of one-many identity. For example, one pair of shoes is identical with two shoes; and my one body is identical with its six limbs of arms, legs, head, and torso. The pair of shoes is not identical with each one of the two shoes, nor is my body identical with each one of its six limbs, but rather identical with all of them taken together, or collectively. I argue that the problem of the Trinity should be understood accordingly: God is identical with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit collectively, but not with each one of them distributively. According to the way I develop this proposal, no traditional laws of identity are violated, but merely generalized in an intuitive way. I argue that this is compatible with Christian Orthodoxy as given by the Athanasian Creed. I end by responding to some anticipated objections.
KeywordsTrinity Identity
The logical problem of the Trinity threatens Christianity with incoherence.1 Many solutions have been suggested, but arguably without much removal of the threat.2 In what follows I suggest a new and independently motivated solution to it. As far as I can tell, it is a coherent one.
The Logical Problem
the Catholic faith is this: that we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in unity; neither confounding the persons nor dividing the substance. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. But the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is all one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son, eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God. So likewise the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit is Lord. And yet there are not three Lords, but one Lord. For like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every person by himself to be God and Lord; so are we forbidden by the catholic religion to say there are three Gods or three Lords. … And in this Trinity none is afore or after another; none is greater or less than another. But the whole three persons are coeternal, and coequal. So that in all things, as aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
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God = the Father
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God = the Son
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God = the Holy Spirit
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The Father ≠ the Son
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The Father ≠ the Holy Spirit
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The Holy Spirit ≠ the Son
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For any x and y, if x = y, then x and y share all properties
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For any x, x = x
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For any x and y, if x = y, then y = x
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For any x, y, and z, if x = y and y = z, then x = z
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The Father = God
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The Father = the Son
The conjunction of propositions 12 and 4 is a direct contradiction. Q.E.D.
The Solution
- 13.
There is one and only one God
Any solution to the Trinitarian Paradox must thus be compatible with 13 in order not to violate such orthodoxy.
With proposition 13 in place, we also have another paradox, which we might call the Paradox of the Cardinals: by 1–6 it follows that God is (at least) three in number, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, each being distinct from each other. But by 13, God is one in number, not three. Hence, God is one in number and God is not one in number. Q.E.D.
I will now for expository reasons propose a solution to the Paradox of the Cardinals before I go on to propose a solution to the Trinitarian Paradox. I end, in the next and last section, by responding to some anticipated objections.
While looking at one and the same external phenomenon, I can say with equal truth both "It is a copse" and "It is five trees", or both "Here are four companies" and "Here are 500 men". Now what changes here from one judgment to the other is neither any individual object, nor the whole, the agglomeration of them, but rather my terminology. But that is itself only a sign that one concept has been substituted for another.4
The implication is that numerical properties are relational properties.5 Having a certain numerical property (cardinality) depends on how it has been divided up, or conceptualized to begin with. Conceptualizing some portion of reality as two arms, two legs, one head, and a torso, it has the numerical property six holding true of it, but conceptualizing the same portion of reality as a body. it has the numerical property one holding true of it. Independently of being conceptualized it has no particular numerical property holding true of it at all.
Likewise with God: conceptualizing the portion of reality that is God as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we have conceptualized it as being three in number, but it is nonetheless the same portion of reality as what we might conceptualize as God, and hence as being one in number. Numerical properties aren't properties holding of it independently of how it is being conceptualized. This is of course not saying that one conceptualization cannot be better somehow than another, nor that they cannot be equally good. It is only saying that, better, worse, or equal, it is a conceptualization of one and the same portion of reality either way.
This solves the Paradox of the Cardinals because it is not true that God is one in number and that God is not one in number, simpliciter. Rather, what is true is that God is one in number relative to one way of conceptualizing that portion of reality that He is, but not one in number relative to another way of conceptualizing it. We thus get the logical form: One(x,y) & not-One(x,z), which is not a contradiction (where 'x' here ranges over portions of reality and 'y' and 'z' ranges over concepts).
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God = the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit,
An ordinary example will make the point clear. Consider three things a, b, and c surrounding one thing x. It is then true that a,b,c taken together or collectively surround x, but not true that a surrounds x, and it is not true that b surrounds x, and it is not true that c surrounds x. To solve the Trinitarian Paradox, we simply treat identity like that; hence, the collective reading of proposition 14.
Such as the Father is, such is the Son, and such is the Holy Spirit. The Father uncreated, the Son uncreated, and the Holy Spirit uncreated. The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Spirit incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son, eternal, and the Holy Spirit eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal. As also there are not three uncreated nor three incomprehensible, but one uncreated and one incomprehensible. So likewise the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, and the Holy Spirit almighty. And yet they are not three almighties, but one almighty. So the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. And yet they are not three Gods, but one God.
The Father is F, the Son is F, and the Holy Spirit is F. And yet they are not three Fs, but one F
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God = the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit
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The Father ≠ the Son
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The Father ≠ the Holy Spirit
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The Holy Spirit ≠ the Son
Which is a consistent set of propositions in conjunction with the classical laws of identity as long as proposition 14/15 is read collectively, not distributively.8 This set of propositions is a very simple and sufficiently good expression of the core demand in the Athanasian Creed, according to which we must worship Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity, but neither confound the persons nor divide the substance. It is also, as I have argued, compatible with the rest of the creed. This set of propositions is also consistent with monotheism, i.e., with proposition 13 according to which there is one and only one God. Of course, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three, not one, but proposition 13 implies no denial of that fact. Orthodoxy recognizes that they are three and not confounded with each other through its acceptance of 4-6/16-18. It is when conceptualized as God that He is one, undivided in substance.
Some Objections
I anticipate at least six objections, but first note four general features of my solution.
First, the topics of plural identity and the nature of numerical properties are, as shown by the examples given above, general logical and metaphysical topics in their own right. My solution is therefore not motivated solely by the problem of the Trinity, and hence cannot legitimately be accused of being an objectionably ad hoc such solution.9
Second, my solution is not a version of modalism, the heretic view according to which the three persons are mere "appearances" or "modes" of the one God. According to my solution, the three persons are real divine existences in their own right.
Third, it is not a version of subordinationism, the heretical view according to which there is some sort of ordering relation among the three persons with respect to their divinity. For all my solution says, it might be the case that the Son is begotten by the Father and that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, but nonetheless that each of the three persons is the same with respect to their divine features. For all my solution says, it might also be the case that there is no priority relation between God and the three persons; the one might be on a par with the three.
Fourth, it is neither a version of so-called Latin Trinitarianism (LT) nor so-called Social Trinitarianism (ST).10 Roughly, LT takes its starting point in the one and only God, and then tries to explain the three persons in Him, i.e., tries to explain how the one and only God is three persons. (Its main challenge is to avoid modalism, which my solution avoids.) ST on the other hand (again roughly) takes its starting point in the three persons, and then tries to explain the one and only God in them, i.e., tries to explain how they are one God. (Its main challenge is to avoid polytheism, which my solution avoids, but more on that below.) By identifying the one and only God with the three persons collectively in the way I suggested above, one neither takes its starting point in God nor in the three persons. By being identical, God and the three persons (collectively) are on a par in all senses of the term, and hence not sensibly explained in each other. It is important to note that my solution is to be understood literally: the one God is identical with the three persons (collectively), and the three persons (collectively) are identical with the one God. As shown above, this is not contradictory on the condition that numerical properties (or predications, if you prefer) are relational properties (predications).11
My solution thus also avoids more general objections to ST and LT as such. To partly support this further claim, consider some objections to both these forms of Trinitarianism put forth by Dale Tuggy. Tuggy (2003) objects that ST fails because it identifies God with a community of three divine persons, but since a community is neither a person nor divine, it turns out, according to ST, that God is neither a person nor divine. But that God is neither a person nor divine contradicts the scriptures. My solution identifies God with a portion of reality that can equally well be conceptualized as a plurality of three divine persons. There is no privileged way of conceptualizing it in terms of which we can explain the other way. Both ways are equally legitimate. But then God is not a mere "community" (or rather: plurality) as opposed to a divine person because the relevant portion of reality can equally well be conceptualized as a divine person, namely God. Recall, my solution is a claim of strict identity: God is the same portion of reality as the three persons.
The problem is this: in the New Testament, we encounter three divine and wonderful personal beings. In those pages there is no additional person called 'God' or 'the Godhead.'
But according to my solution, the divine portion of reality can be conceptualized as three persons, and as one person, but not, ontologically speaking, as four persons because the three persons together are the "fourth" person. So, to the extent that we think of four divine persons, we must be thinking of the same divine portion of reality "twice over," much like we can think of my body as both my arms, legs, head and torso and as a body. We can do so, but it is, ontologically speaking, thinking of the same thing "twice over," and as such, for metaphysical purposes, an innocent act. So, yes, there is a sense in which there are four divine persons, but it is an ontologically innocent such sense compatible with the New Testament since the "fourth" person is the three persons collectively.13
Tuggy (2003:171–173) objects to what he calls popular LT by the fact that it identifies God with each one of the three persons (while upholding that each one of the three persons are mutually distinct), which violates the classical transitivity of identity. Obviously, by only employing a collective reading of the identity sign, my solution does not stumble over this problem (cf. proposition 14). But Tuggy (2003:173) also objects to what he calls refined LT by the fact that it denies there being a so-called absolute identity-relation of the form "x is the same as y," and instead only accepts a so-called relative identity-relation of the form "x is the same F as y," where F is a count-noun.14 According to Tuggy, it is self-evident that there is an absolute identity-relation of the form "x is the same as y." My solution does not deny that there is an absolute identity-relation (cf. footnote 8). According to my solution it is numerical properties that are relational, not identity. My solution is simply not one employing relative identity.15
So, from the foregoing, I conclude that my solution falls on neither side of the often-mentioned distinction between ST and LT, and as such avoids the more general objections raised against each side.
I nonetheless anticipate at least six objections.
First objection: identity is a one-one relation that anything bears to itself and to nothing else, but your account relies on identity also being a one-many/many-one relation, which is nonsense, so your solution is gibberish.
Reply: I take it that by my case above I have in fact made sense of how identity also comes in numerically hybrid forms. But if still unconvinced, then in addition to just ordinary language, pre-theoretic common sense, and all the passages mentioned above from Aquinas, Descartes, Frege, and Quine, I further refer the reader to, e.g., Plato's Theaetetus 204, Armstrong (1978:49, 1997:12&18), Baxter (1988a, b), Lewis (1991:3.6, 1993), Sider (2007), and (Author). All have argued, pace van Inwagen (1994), that numerically hybrid identity-claims in fact make sense. Since I am confident that the reader sufficiently understands the claims by then, I do not see the need to repeat this whole defense here.16
Second objection: your account relies on the notorious thesis of Composition as Identity as it is found in Armstrong (1978, 1997) and Lewis (1991), but that thesis is false, as shown by, e.g., van Inwagen (1994), Merricks (2003:20–28), Sider (2007), McDaniel (2008), and Cameron (2007, Forthcoming), so your account is false.
Reply: my account does not in fact rely on Composition as Identity as it is found in the works of Armstrong and Lewis, so the falsity of that thesis does not in fact entail the falsity of the present solution to the problem of the Trinity. A careful reader will have noticed that nowhere above have I used the mereological notions of composition, parthood, proper parthood, etc. I have only relied on a primitive notion of plural identity, not mereological notions. Obviously, relying on a primitive concept of identity is not thereby relying on the extremely controversial thesis of Composition as Identity. Now, personally I do believe that one can interpret the purely formal mereological notions of composition, parthood, proper parthood, etc., in terms of the above-used primitive notion of plural identity. But nothing in my present solution to the problem of the Trinity relies on this fact.17 My solution is compatible with all (substantial) talk of parthood being simply false (i.e., mereological nihilism).
Third objection: fine, so your account doesn't rely on mereological notions, but it does nonetheless imply that God is a complex substance, which is false on Christian orthodoxy, according to which God is a simple and undivided substance.
Reply: no, it implies no such thing. According to my solution, the divine portion of reality is both one God and three persons, but it is only when it is conceptualized as the latter that it is divided into three. On my account, it is thus simply false that God, so conceptualized, is three (or that the three persons, so conceptualized, are one), and hence simply false that God is divided in substance (or that the three persons are not divided into three persons). The only way we can make sense of such claims is by using the singular word (or term) 'God,' but really be thinking of it or conceptualizing it through the plural concept of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; or be using the plural word (or term) 'the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,' but really be thinking of it or conceptualizing it through the singular concept of God. But in any such case God is still undivided in substance. Recall, my solution is to be taken literally: numerical properties are relational properties, so when the divine portion of reality is (correctly) conceptualized as one God, there is one substance there, not more than one (assuming the Athanasian Creed has it right, of course). Ascribing relational properties, numerical ascriptions are simply incomplete independent of or prior to their relational units being correctly in place, namely a legitimate conceptualization of the portion of reality to which the numerical property is ascribed.
That being said, I am not sure how much should be attached to the idea that God is simple because I am not sure to what extent we are capable of understanding him as being simple. Doesn't God have more than one thought, and hence in some way or other have more than one part? Doesn't God also have complex thoughts, and hence in some way or other is himself complex?
Fourth objection: fine, so your account entails that God is one in number, not three, and that the three persons are three in number, not one, but on your account we can equally well conceptualize the divine portion of reality as being n in number, for any number n, which is false according to Christian orthodoxy.
Reply: no, not anything goes. Just like conceptualizing a woman as a witch does not make her into one, so conceptualizing the divine portion of reality as being n in number, for any number n, does not make it into n things. Which conceptualizations are correct and which ones aren't is partly up to reality itself in the sense that it partly depends on its objective structure (or at least so I here assume). According to Christianity, the divine portion of reality isn't n things, for any number n, so if we are to believe Christianity we must not believe that the divine portion of reality is n things because then if Christianity were right, we would be wrong.
This last reply also goes to show that my solution is not committed to a form of metaphysical anti-realism. That numerical properties are relational properties with concepts as their relational units is compatible with reality having a real and objective numerical structure. It might be that some of the concepts (as opposed to others) are objectively more natural to be used to get at the "fundamental" numerical structure of reality without thereby making all other numerical concepts inapplicable.18 This of course further goes to show that metaphysical realism does not entail that numerical properties aren't thus relational: even if reality has a most natural and "fundamental" numerical structure, numerical properties might still be relational.19
Fifth objection: fine, but concepts are mental entities, so your account is at least committed to reality's numerical structure, objective or not, being partly dependent on human mentality.
Reply: that depends on the metaphysical status of concepts, and their relations to human beings in particular. Since that's everyone's issue, I need take no particular stand on it here.
Sixth objection: fine then, but if you are such a metaphysical realist, what reason do we have on your account for thinking that 'God' singularly refers to an undivided substance, and not instead plurally refers to, say, the three persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? The former kind of singular reference is of course needed to avoid polytheism.
Reply: this brings to light an interesting issue, but is an unfair objection to my account in particular. The semantics of 'God,' 'Father,' 'Son,' and 'Holy Spirit' is everyone's issue, not mine in particular.20 My account seems compatible with whatever biblical scholars and semanticists might find out about it, as long as the numerical identity of God does not distribute across the three persons ('God' referring to each of the persons). Most importantly, my account is compatible with 'God' referring to a substance, and 'the Father,' 'the Son,' and 'the Holy Spirit' each referring to distinct divine persons.
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God = the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit (14/15 above)
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God = the Father (New Thesis)
But propositions 19 and 20 are mutually compatible by simple plural logic: by 20, 19 becomes the Father = the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, which trivially collapses into the Father = the Son, the Holy Spirit, which if read collectively (in accordance with my suggested solution) is compatible with propositions 16–18 above (i.e., that each one of the three persons are numerically distinct).21
I henceforth assume that a Christian strives for (at least) true belief and that truth requires coherency.
For a survey plus references, see, e.g., Tuggy (2009) and Rea (2009). See also Brower and Rea (2005a). For a good presentation and discussion of the logical problem, see Cartwright (1987). For some fairly interesting and sophisticated, but in my mind ultimately incoherent solutions, see Geach (1967), Swinburne (1994), and Brower and Rea (2005b).
This is also, for example, how St Thomas Aquinas (1253-55/1993: 240) thinks of things: "as a single real (geometrical) point may truly correspond to several conceptions we frame of it: conceived of in itself, conceived of as a (circle's) centre, conceived of as the end of a line. All these conceptions are in the mind as subject, yet in the point itself as giving a basis to the truth of the conceptions." It is also how Descartes (1985:227) thinks of the relation between corporeal substances and regions of space: "There is no real distinction between space, or internal place, and the corporeal substance contained in it; the only difference lies in the way in which we are accustomed to conceive of them." There are plenty other examples, but the general idea should by now be clear enough.
Frege (1884) concludes that numerical properties are second-level properties, i.e., properties of concepts, not of the "external phenomenon" falling under the concepts. For reasons I cannot go into here, I suggest instead that numerical properties are indeed first-level properties, properties of the "external phenomenon," but relational such properties, with a concept as the relational unit.
This distinction between a collective and a distributive reading of predicates is common in natural languages as well as in standard plural logic. See, e.g., Yi (2005, 2006) or McKay (2006).
That is, my account relies on the plural versions of Leibniz's Law: if xx = yy, then xx and yy share all properties, and Reflexivity: xx = xx, where each plural variable takes a plurality consisting of one or more things as its value. These plural versions entail the classical singular versions. For more details on the plural notion of identity, see Bohn, E. D. (manuscript submitted), On Treating Composition as Identity.
LT is also occasionally called Western or Psychological Trinitarianism, while ST is occasionally called Greek or Eastern Trinitarianism. See, e.g., Brower and Rea (2005a), Rea (2009), or Tuggy (2009).
Of course, I cannot here fully defend the claim that numerical properties are relational, but see Bohn, E. D. (manuscript submitted). Note also that my solution can equally well be phrased in terms of numerical predications being relational rather than numerical properties being so relational. My solution is compatible with nominalism.
And of course, in line with what I argued above, whenever the New Testament talks of any one of the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit as being God, we understand this as involving an 'is' of predication, not an 'is' of strict numerical identity. But I cannot go into an adequate interpretation of the New Testament here. But for interesting and related discussions, see Baber (2008), and the exchange between Tuggy (2004, 2011) and Hasker (2010, 2011). See also my last reply to the sixth objection discussed in Sect. 3 below. As for Tuggy's (2004) Deception Arguments I find them to be very interesting, but not to be a problem for my account as such. Rather they are everyone's problem.
As per Geach (1967), or as per the somewhat watered-down version of it found in, e.g., Brower and Rea (2005b). Personally, I agree with Tuggy in that Geach's solution implies the denial of something that seems self-evident, if anything is.
Bohn, E. D. (manuscript submitted) in particular has replied to all the worries found in van Inwagen (1994).
What's more, the version of Composition as Identity that results from the way that I personally believe we can interpret the mereological notions does not fall prey to any of the objections found in van Inwagen (1994), Merricks (2003), Sider (2007), McDaniel (2008), and Cameron (2007, Forthcoming). I cannot of course argue for this bold and general claim here, but see Bohn, E. D. (manuscript submitted).
In the case of God versus the three divine persons, I believe the Athanasian Creed is pretty clear on both ways being equally natural/fundamental. But let that be as it may for present purposes.
My solution thus rejects premise 4 of Tuggy's (2004:284) so-called direct argument against ST: f≠(f,s,h). Tuggy's rationale for it is that (1) each one of them is distinct, and that (2) it is self-evident that "no individual can be identical to the collection or mereological sum of itself and two other things." My solution accepts (1), but read premise 4 collectively rather than distributively, so no problem there. But by virtue of standard plural logic, my solution rejects (2). On my solution an individual can be identical to the collection (in my terminology: plurality) of itself and n other things. For example, God is identical with itself and the three divine persons (God = God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit). By standard plural logic, this trivially collapses into God = the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Saying that such claims are self-evidently false, is thus saying that standard plural logic is self-evidently false. That is a very radical claim for which I believe there is no rationale.
Many thanks to Torstein Tollefsen and three anonymous referees for this journal.
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What Are Some Housing Options For Seniors Who Want To Live Alone?
I went to visit my 78-year-old aunt yesterday. We had a good gossip about her siblings, who are all older than she is. Some of my aunts and uncles are living in their own homes, but some live in seniors' residences or assisted care facilities. Listening to Auntie Mary recount stories of her siblings' living arrangements made me reflect on my own impending old age.
My parents passed away at the ages of 62 (Mom) and 67 (Dad). Up until her cancer diagnosis at the age of 61, Mom had been healthy and active -- working full time, gardening, and running after her grandchildren. Dad had been on disability pension since I was a teenager, as a result of a workplace injury. While he was officially of retirement age, he had been living a retirement-type lifestyle for some time, keeping busy around the house and yard.
I did not get to usher my parents into old age, or really even into retirement living. My grandparents had all passed away by the time I was 19 years old. I have no direct experience caring for elderly people. As a result, I'm not sure what I can expect my own day-to-day life to look like when I am "old" (assuming I am lucky enough to reach old age).
If staying in your current home is your preference for senior living as well, what can you do to make your house more accessible and easier to care for?
As a fiercely-independent introvert, one thing I do know is that I want to continue living on my own for as long as possible. The thoughts of communal meals with a couple hundred other people in a seniors' villa or bingo nights at a seniors' apartment complex make me break out in hives. What kind of options would allow me to live alone as a senior? What sort of things should I be thinking about now, to transition from middle-aged employee to retirement living to senior citizen?
If I were to stay in my current house, I would do some retrofitting, starting with a wheelchair ramp at the front door, in case I need to use a cane, walker, or scooter. I would convert my tub into a curbless shower, for the most accessible bathing option. I also would create a laundry area on the main floor. I already -- five years ago, when I was 40 -- fell down my basement stairs while carrying a basket of dirty laundry. I fractured my leg so badly that I needed to have six pins surgically inserted. I have no desire to replicate that feat at the age of 85. If staying in your current home is your preference for senior living as well, what can you do to make your house more accessible and easier to care for?
Although a retrofit would be relatively low-cost and easy, I'm not sure that staying in my current house is my best choice. More than anything, the yard maintenance worries me. Will I have the physical capability to shovel snow or rake it off the roof; repair raised garden beds; and heft the mulch bag up to empty it into the compost bin? If I can't maintain the yard myself, I will need to need to need to factor yard maintenance into my senior's budget.
My municipality (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) allows garage and garden suites as urban infill projects. Building and then moving into a smaller residence on my own property, while renting out the primary residence, could potentially address a lot of issues. This would allow me to build an accessible home to specification from the ground up; provide extra income for yard and house maintenance; and help me maintain my independence. If this option interests you too, the first step is to make sure that your community bylaws permit two separate residences on the same property.
I do recognize that at some point, moving to a senior's residence or assisted care facility may well be necessary.
In some ways, moving into a regular apartment complex or condo might be the easiest solution. However, that would mean a whole lifestyle change, including downsizing, giving up access to a yard and garden, and reconsidering how pets fit into my life (I currently have three beagles). Given the amount of time I spend on yard maintenance and home repairs, I think giving up both my employment and my single-family dwelling at the same time (and possibly downsizing to a single Yorkie as well) might be too big of a change at once.
As a single woman, I know that living by myself outside of a senior's residence will hinge primarily on my health and mobility. While "granny pods," might be a viable option for those with family, I'm not a granny -- or even a mother. I don't know anyone who would plop down a granny pod in their backyard for me, and provide care as required.
I do recognize that at some point, moving to a senior's residence or assisted care facility may well be necessary. But there are a couple of things that I would consider before taking that step. First, I would look into a medical alert system. These are usually quite simple, consisting of a base unit and an emergency button. The button is often on a bracelet or on a necklace pendant, and when pressed, it triggers a call to an emergency response centre.
Co-housing is something that I have actually already discussed with friends. Many co-housing communities are built on a sort of bed-and-breakfast model, where a few residents share a single-family dwelling. The introvert in me isn't crazy about the idea of co-housing, but it would certainly be safer than living alone, and less stressful for introverts than the retirement village model.
I have a number of years to go before retirement living becomes a reality, and I imagine the landscape of senior living will continue to shift and new models will emerge (who would have dreamed of granny pods 10 years ago?). Still, I think it's important to start thinking about this now, so that I am not struggling to transition both out of the workplace and into new living arrangements at the same time. If you are looking towards your retirement and senior years as well, what sort of living arrangements are you envisioning?
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What is the best way to ward off a sore throat?
Why, a daily dose of colon cleanser powder, mixed with fruit juice, of course. Suzi Quatro swears by it. That there is not a bit of scientific evidence to back up her claim that "all illnesses start in the colon" – sore throats, for one, are caused by viruses coming in through your nose and mouth – does not matter. Quatro is a rock star and, as such, her quackery is far more likely to be reported than a qualified doctor boring on about coughs and sneezes spreading diseases.
Quatro is not alone. This week the Sense about Science charity published a round-up of the most ludicrous scientific claims made by famous faces in 2011. From it, we learn that Simon Cowell swears by the youth-giving and "calming" properties of an intravenous drip of vitamins C, B12 and magnesium; Tamara Ecclestone has acupuncture once a month to "boost her immune system"; and Juliette Lewis has found a substance more hydrating than water (coconut water, apparently – and it isn't).
Some of the claims are plain stupid – Jersey Shore star Snooki posits that the sea is salty because "the water's all whale sperm". Some are pernicious – the supermodel Gisele Bündchen refusing to wear "poisonous" sunscreen; Michele Bachmann's casual linking of the HPV vaccine to "mental retardation".
Sense about Science asked experts to respond to each of these claims and in each case, their assessment boils down to one word – poppycock. The fact that scientists are even bothering to engage with them – and with such lucid, layman-friendly reasoning – is cheering, though. Once a celebrity has given voice to a theory, however ludicrous, it can spread faster than chicken pox, and leave its scars on the wider consciousness.
The solution is to engage that public interest, nurture these odd links between celebrity and science, take a leaf out of the superstar physicist Professor Brian Cox's book and lecture, almost, by stealth. In the meantime, the most useful New Year's resolution is surely to take any health advice from a famous face with a (moderate) pinch of salt.
* Tis the season to repeat, and repeat, and then do it again, for good measure. Some 98 per cent of the films shown on television over the festive period were repeats. As for the new material – woeful as much of it was – half of that was being repeated before it had even been properly digested. Strictly Come Dancing, for example, was screened twice in 18 hours, which, given that the period between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day represents one long primetime, was a bit cheeky.
In my case, the result was – barring the obligatory Poirot and Christmas Top of the Pops (never missed one) – the least tellycentric Christmas I can remember. Not by choice: there was simply nothing on. It was when I found myself starting to watch the same panto-themed episode of Deal or No Deal on consecutive days that I realised what was really missing this year – the endless repeats of Friends on Channel 4 and E4 (now lost to satellite, thanks to a bidding war), which soak up those painfully slow hours between breakfast and turkey time as comfortingly as brown bread with gravy.
It's not the repeats that are the problem at Christmas, it's the wrong kind of repeats.
* There's much to catch the eye in David Fincher's majestic, chilly remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – not least Daniel Craig's spectacles. In the film, released last Friday, Craig plays Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist who is drawn into solving a family murder. As he takes a rest from trawling through piles of dusty files and old photographs, an odd thing happens: instead of pushing his reading glasses up on top of his head, or down his nose, or even slotting them casually into his V-neck, he pulls them down across his chin and leaves them there, dangling absent-mindedly, from one ear. The effect is a little comical, distracting even, but certainly memorable. Is it too early to add this to the Poirot shuffle and the Kojak lollipop suck in the pantheon of great detective tics? At the very least, Specsavers should bear him in mind for some kind of honourable mention at their Spectacle Wearer of the Year awards.
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Series: Restoring Christmas
Pastor Kerry Shook
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Stolen Christmas (2 of 3)
Series: Restoring Christmas
Pastor Kerry Shook
• John 10:10 (NIV)
The Thief Tries to...
• Steal the simplicity of Christmas
• 2 Cor. 11:3 (NKJV)
• Luke 2:7 (NKJV)
• Steal the generosity of Christmas
• Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV)
• Steal the blessings of Christmas
Have you lost your joy? Have you lost your peace of mind and heart? Have you lost your strength and your courage? You need to know that you really haven't lost it. It has been stolen from you. There's a thief that wants to steal the things that are most valuable to you.
The great news is that you can reclaim your stolen joy, your stolen passion, all of the things that you've lost are right there for you to take hold of.
This is an actual article that appeared in the Desert Valley Times in Mesquite, Nevada, that huge newspaper. It says "The baby Jesus figurine stolen from Ace Hardware's nativity scene on Christmas night last year has been restored and returned. We have a Christmas miracle on our hands said Nick Janik, manager of the hardware store, who found the lost figurine Sunday morning. The figurine was left in a wheelbarrow in front of the store in the middle of the night with no clue as to where it had been for the past year. It had no signs of damage or neglect. Baby Jesus is in as good of condition as when he left said Janik. Last year a cloud was cast on the season as on Christmas night the baby figurine disappeared. The larger figurines are screwed down and Ace owner, Todd Levett, would come by each evening to put the baby inside, but he thought it would be safe left out on Christmas. The figurine was last seen in the manger at 7:30 that evening. Now the store put out an appeal for the missing baby Jesus, even offering a reward, but got no responses. Janik said he has no idea of where the figurine has been for the year or why it was returned. I'm hoping someone found God he said, but maybe a parent was cleaning out a kids room and found it and returned it" and that's probably what happened, but the good news is in Mesquite, Nevada, at the Ace Hardware Christmas has been restored this year. We can celebrate. Yes. You don't seem that excited. We're in this series that we're calling restoring Christmas and more importantly in the next couple of weeks leading up to Christmas, I believe Christmas is going to restore you because that's what Christmas is all about. Now, I'm not too worried about some prankster stealing a baby Jesus figurine because that's not going to steal Christmas away, but there is a politically correct crowd that's trying to steal away Christmas from the public life and now we're not supposed to call it a Christmas tree any more.
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Author has written 10 stories for Hetalia - Axis Powers, Yu-Gi-Oh, Van Helsing, Avengers, Batman Begins/Dark Knight, Final Fantasy I-VI, Digimon, Scandinavia and the World, Assassin's Creed, Inheritance Cycle, and Dragonlance.
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Modern day pairings.
Pairings I like for Yugioh: Puzzleshipping, Tendershipping (but only if they share a body, damnit!)...and Polarshipping, Peachshipping.
Updated "Binary" after a long hiatus. The outline for that story is completed, but still takes a lot of time to write them out. It is a long fic and not sure when I would update it again, so I have to apologize to everyone following it in advance.
I'm back on fanfiction.net after a long break. But I have to apologize to all my readers, I'm not likely going to update my old fics because it's difficult to keep characters consistent after hiatus, and keeping characters IC is one of the most important part of fanfic writing.
I've came across a few hetalia fanfiction that's vampire!AU, and I just notice something extremely amusing! And that's one can basically predict what kind of vampire story it's going to be base on which character(s) is being the vampire!
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Melodrama, Interview with the Vampire-type for when dear Roderich Edelstein/Austria is the cursed one.
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I love reading and writing crossovers, especially those about Hetalia (my absolute favorite)!
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Many characters from differing fandom were SOMEHOW made into nations/provinces/cities for whatever reasons.
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InhaltsverzeichnisThe Closing of Masterpiece Theater: Henry Fielding and the Valorization of Incoherence; David H. Richter Ideology and Literary Form: Novels at Work; Patricia Meyer Spacks replies Ideology and Literary Form in Fielding's Tom Jones; John Richetti Tom Jones: The Form in History; Ralph W. Rader Making Fielding's Novels Speak for Law and Order; Gerald J. Butler Closing Down the Theatre, and Other Critical Abuses; Carol Houlihan Flynn Jonathan Wild and True Crime Fiction; David H. Richter The Question of Ideological Form: Arthur Young, the Argricultural Tour, and Ireland; Ian Ferris Form as Meaning: Pope and the Ideology of the Couplet; J. Paul Hunter The Rules of the Game; Or, Why Neoclassicism Was Never an Ideology; Trevor Ross Desire and Mourning: The Ideology of the Elegy; George E. Haggerty Inchbald's A Simple Story: An Anti-Ideological Reading; Michael Boardman The Feminization of Ideology: Form and the Female in the Long Eighteenth Century; Laura Brown
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"Get me John Palafoutas from the Gazette, Danny. And Ellen Fisher from the Tribune, too. Tell them we story we want is that we're trending upwards in the third district."
"That isn't from an official poll, though," Danny told me, looking nervous, like interns always do when they disagree with me. I never understood why they did that. I may have been a powerful figure as a campaign director, but I wasn't in any position to fire them, and as far as I knew I'd never been mean to an intern for no good reason.
Maybe the multitasking intimated them, I thought as I signed off on some papers and checked the new second district polling statistics that had been left on my desk, all the while keeping an eye on the television in the corner and opening up a call. "Henry, the person you want to talk to is Jane Ralph, her extension's pound-eighteen. Say hi to the kids for me, I'm transferring you to her. Danny, the poll numbers don't have to be legitimate. If we pretend they are, the imaginary positive trend will give us a real positive trend, do you catch my drift?"
He shook his head, but headed out to his cubicle anyway. Another intern came in almost as soon as he'd left, Brian or Ben or something like that. "Ms. Salazar? Mr. Hersch said he's getting the graduation photo op in the Gazette. And he wants you to look at this."
"Great, leave it on my desk." I said, preparing another call before I noticed that I had a call from Hedrick Chapman. Hedrick Chapman, who I sometimes felt was the bane of my existence with his endless calling about my son. Probably another complaint about how Marco was "failing to realize his potential" in class, which was code for telling me that Marco was smart enough to know that he could completely slack off for two thirds of a quarter and then work moderately hard for the last third and still pass to the next grade. Most parents would have been frustrated, but my son was nine. I trusted that by the time his grades mattered, he'd apply himself. Nobody would ever care what grades he got in third grade as long as his high school grades were good.
I took the call. "Yes, Hedrick? How many times do I have to tell you that Peter's a much better contact than I am?"
"I'm sorry, Ms. Laroche-"
"And how many times do I have to tell you I kept my maiden name?"
"Yes, yes, anyway. Since you and your husband missed the last parent-teacher conference, I was wondering when we could schedule the make-up conference-"
"We'll be at the next conference, Hedrick. For the moment I trust my son will do fine between now and then. There's no need for a make-up conference."
"But Ms. La- Ms. Salazar, Marco's grades are low enough that if continues at this rate, by the next conference he won't be able to go on to the next grade with the rest of his class."
"He'll bring them up at the last minute. He's playing you, Hedrick. He's got the system more figured out than you think. And now, if you don't mind, I need to use my phone for my actual job." I hung up before he could protest and started reviewing the folder the intern had left on my desk, while calling up another reporter to tip them off on another photo op.
How national, even state level campaigners did it was beyond me. They probably didn't have children, or school principals they were on a first-name basis with. What was worse, rumor had it that Hedrick was going to transfer to the local middle-high school, which would mean two years of freedom from him, but that we'd be dealing with him for all of Marco's teenage years.
Irritated, I kept reviewing the folder. The contents were very interesting, at least from a spin perspective. Part of my client's platform was police reform, and if the accounts provided here were true, many of the non-violent offenders who'd been picked up in the area weren't driven straight to the jailhouse. Instead, the cars had stopped at some building owned by a company called The Sharing. And all of the offenders who went there received reduced sentencing later.
Someone would have to figure out what The Sharing was. If it was a halfway house or counseling, it might be political suicide to attack the police station over it. But if anything shady was going on, we could use it to bolster our platform. Either way, it was very likely legally suspect.
I called up Mr. Hersch. "Randy, can you check out this Sharing organization? I've never heard of it and maybe we can use it."
"'Fraid not, Eva. Hey, you should go, you're our spin-master. I think it's open twenty-four seven, so you could go on the weekend."
"You know I don't work weekends. I have an actual personal life and I'd like to keep it that way," I said snippily. But then I thought about it. A numeration of criminal acts by the police could win us a lot of sympathy with black and latino voters. And Marco was going to be attending a birthday party on Sunday, and Peter was going up to visit his sister that afternoon. "Never mind, I'll check it out Sunday."
"Glad to hear it." He said, soundly oddly cheerful about it.
I didn't think any more of it, and hung up. There were more calls to make, more documents to review, more stories to spin, and I wanted out of there by six. No matter what was happening on the campaign trail, I wasn't going to have my husband and child eating cereal for dinner.
Peter was already home when I arrived. He was relaxing on the couch, as he usually did between picking Marco up and welcoming me home. A VHS of The Twilight Zone was on the television. He stood up to greet me, kissed me on the cheek. "Hey, honey. Rough work day?"
"Why, do I look frazzled?" I said, setting my briefcase down. "Don't worry, I didn't bring any of it home."
He grunted. "Wish I could say the same. Jerry wants me to look over some more code for the new satellite program."
"You need to ask him for a raise. You aren't valued enough there." I said pointedly. Peter grimaced. He never listened to me when it came to his job, nor did he feel it was my job to try and negotiate his salary. It had led to its fair share of arguments before, and I wasn't in the mood for it tonight, so I changed the subject. "You did remember to pick our kid up, right?"
"Sure thing. Brought Jake home too. They're playing in the backyard now."
"Let me guess, Civil War?"
"I think it's Revolutionary War, unless the ridiculous British accent Marco's trying for was actually a really bad Southern accent."
I sighed. "When I was a kid my friends and I played animal hospital. Why do boys always have to play war?"
Peter shrugged. "I guess boys will be boys. When I was a kid it was attack of the alien invaders. I think Jake'll be here before dinner, so you should make a portion for him."
I started boiling water for pasta. "God knows that kid can eat. I think he's hitting another growth spurt. Might be a good thing for his dreams of NBA stardom."
As much as I disliked the war games Marco and Jake played, I was glad that they were friends. Jake was a good kid, an honest, dependable, responsible child even at a young age. Quiet, but that was alright, because Marco chattered enough for both of them. Jake just gave off the vibes that parents could trust him to do the right thing. I'd have trusted Jake to call the ambulance if someone got hurt, or to lead his friends from doing something wrong. And I knew of more than a few instances where Marco had mouthed off to bigger kids and Jake had been able to defuse the situation before it got violent.
"Mom, Jake told me he wants an Super Nintendo for his birthday." Marco ran in, his new pants covered in what I assumed was mud.
Jake followed, significantly less dirty. He only sported a few grass stains. "I did not! Marco's only telling you that because it's what he wants to play with."
"Not true. Jake totally said he wanted the Simpsons game that came out."
"I'm sure he did," I said patiently. "But we're not going to the store until Saturday. Right now you need to take off your shoes and switch pants. I told you not to get those dirty."
"Told you." Jake said smugly. "I told you your mom would get mad if you jumped in that mud."
Marco stuck his tongue out. "It was funny when I did it."
"Marco, get!" I chided. He pouted but took off his shoes and ran upstairs to switch clothes. "So, happy birthday, Jake."
"Thanks, Miss Marco's Mom. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to say I'm ten yet, though. Since my birthday party isn't till Sunday and all."
"Well, you're ten years old either way, so I say you can celebrate it now. I think I have some Li'l Debbies in the cupboard, if you want me to put some candles on one."
"That would be nice, Miss Marco's Mom." He said politely, but he looked a little concerned.
"You can call me Eva, Jake." I said, pulling them out of the cupboard and grabbing some birthday candles from the cabinet. "Peter, you wanna light this?"
Peter was outside, having a pre-dinner smoke. "In a minute."
"I'm afraid I can only fit one candle on here and not ten, but you get the idea." I told Jake before turning back to finishing the pasta and steamed vegetables.
Suddenly Jake said, "are you mad at me because I didn't stop Marco from getting his clothes dirty?"
It caught me off-guard. Maybe Jake was just a little too much of a good kid. "No, honey. Marco's not your responsibility. I'm not even all that mad at him, much less you."
He breathed a sigh of relief. "Whew. Okay. I just thought that since I should've known better, it was kinda my job."
"Oh jeez, no fair! How come Jake gets a Li'l Debbie for dinner?" I heard from the doorway.
"It's his birthday," Peter said, coming in with his lighter. "You can have one if you eat all your vegetables."
Marco still didn't look pleased, so I promised him that I'd make him my renowned home-fried tacos for his birthday, and he seemed to soften up after that. He'd be turning ten in a little less than a month.
Dinner went fairly smoothly. Peter and I let the boys dominate the conversation, as they undoubtedly didn't care much about what we'd done at work. The conversation mostly revolved around the new arcade games at the mall, and Marco teasing Jake about some girl Jake was fond of. After dinner, we let them play outside some more, after making them promise to come back before it got too dark and to stay in the yard. If it were Marco alone, we probably would have made him play inside, but with Jake he was probably safe.
While they were out playing Peter and I relaxed on the front porch, him with a cigarette and me with a half-glass of wine. As cheesy as it was, we still enjoyed watching the sunset together.
"If I get a raise…." Peter started, then stopped. "Never mind."
"If you get a raise what?"
"If I get that raise you always want me to get, would you consider working part-time?"
My eyes widened. "You're serious?"
"I've done all the calculations and we could move to a different neighborhood and still live very comfortably. And you're always talking about how you wish you didn't have to work as much," he said quickly.
"Well, I – that's a really big decision. I'd have to think about it. If there was some way to make it work so we could stay in this neighborhood, maybe. I wouldn't want to just uproot Marco. Constancy's important to kids."
"He'd still go to the same school. And you could spend more time home. You always said you wanted to garden."
I could hear the kids playing in the backyard. Some game with pretend guns again. It sounded like Marco would probably be dirty by the time he came back in, if Jake's loud complaints about Marco climbing trees and crawling under the patio for cover were any indication. Naturally, my son was finding ways to bend the rules, and infuriate his best friend.
I clicked my tongue. "It's a big decision, honey. And I love my job. I worked hard to get it. And if this campaign's successful, I'll have a lot more jobs open to me. And more flexible hours."
"Yeah, but your guy's down eight points in the polls."
"Ah-ah. Maybe not for long. I'm checking something out on Sunday that could give us a bump in minority communities."
"Eight points big?" He looked skeptical. He killed his cigarette.
"I don't know. But it might be a big scandal for the police, so it could be big."
He sat back. "Sunday, huh? I thought you didn't work weekends."
I could tell he didn't believe me. I didn't entirely believe myself either. A big scandal would be a godsend to the campaign, but it almost sounded too good to be true. "Tell you what. If Sunday's a bust, I'll work part-time on the next campaign. If it works out, I get to work full-time as often as I want and you don't have to ask for a raise."
"That'll be a relief. You know I hate confrontation," Peter said. Then, still suspiciously, "You think this thing you're doing on Sunday might be that important?"
"Maybe not. But if it is, it could change the whole situation."
I finished my wine. From the backyard, I heard Jake yell "Marco, when you die you have to stay dead!"


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Burlap Crafts: Pumpkin Pillow
Sweet Autumn Decorating Ideas for Your PorchDo you like burlap crafts? Then our burlap pumpkin pillow will be perfect for your porch. Our autumn porch theme this year is pumpkins - I think because I already made this burlap pumpkin pillow and some pumpkin pillow toppers, too. Quite fun!
I will also be sharing a bit about my painted pumpkin pillow toppers, too.
Tutorial: Burlap Crafts: Pumpkin Pillow
To make this cute burlap pumpkin pillow, you will need two 12 inch squares of solid fabric and one 12 inch square of burlap. I used painters drop cloth for mine and colored burlap for the top. You could use muslin or any other solid fabric that you have that coordinates with your choice of burlap. Natural burlap would look great too. I just happened to have this orange burlap on hand already. This is a great way to use up fabric scraps.
To start, cut three 12 inch squares of fabric, 1 for the bottom and two for the top. Cutting two pieces for the top is optional. You could simply use the burlap for the top. The reason I use both the burlap and the painters dropcloth is because I like my pillow top to be a little more substantial. The burlap, of course, is what goes on the very top.
My finished pillow is 11 inches square but if you want yours to be larger or smaller, then just adjust accordingly.
Plus you will need two packages of ribbon and a blunt needle. My ribbon is neon orange for the main part of the pumpkin and lime green for the stem. It is 24 feet by 1/8" wide. Yours could be wider ribbon – say up to 1/4 inch. I have a lot of ribbon leftover, so I did not use nearly all the 24 feet. In fact, for the green stem, I probably used just a couple feet.
Oh, also have a sheet of paper and a marker to draw a pumpkin pattern.
I ironed the squares before assembling the pillow.
Video: Burlap Craft - Pumpkin Pillow
Video: Burlap Craft - Pumpkin Pillow
If you'd rather learn by watching rather than reading, please check out our video above.
Tutorial continued
Then, just like with any other pillow project, I made a sandwich with the right sides facing together and I pinned it. Notice that the burlap is in the middle of the sandwich.
I sewed a seam all around except for leaving an opening of a few inches to turn the pillow. I trimmed the corners so there would not be so much bulk when I turned the pillow right side out.
I turned the pillow right side out.
Here you can see the pillow has been turned and I am stuffing the pillow with fiberfill. Stuff it medium full. If you make it too plump, then your top surface will be a bit more awkward for making the pumpkin on top.
I finished the basic pillow by sewing the opening closed on my machine. You could sew it closed by hand if you prefer your stitches to be more hidden.
Draw a basic pumpkin on your sheet of paper. Make it to fit your pillow top. Just a simple outline will do - you do not even have to draw any inside lines if you want to keep it simple. Mine is nothing special (really!) but here is my template, if you would like it.
Cut out the pumpkin and pin it to your pillow.
Now thread your blunt needle with the orange ribbon. You will not actually be sewing the ribbon. You will be weaving it over and under the threads of the burlap.
Starting at the top of the pumpkin, just weave the ribbon in and out to make the outline of the pumpkin. Pull a generous amount of ribbon along with you.
Do not cut the tail end of your ribbons just yet.
I wove the ribbon around the outside of the pumpkin shape.
Then I added a few detail lines inside the pumpkin. The goal is to end with your ribbon at the top of the pumpkin so that you can tie a bow to finish it off.
Next I did the same with the stem. At the very end, you can tie the tails into a bow. I tied the green and orange together.
Now your pumpkin is all done. It is a cutie burlap craft for fall.
Painted Pumpkin Pillow Toppers
Want to see how I made these? Watch our video below. They are one of my most favorite toppers so far! And easy as well.
Video: How I Made the Painted Pillow Toppers (and a Bonus Tip)
Here are a few more pics for you to see the process.
I drew the pumpkin shape with a permanent marker. You could use pencil instead. This is a partially painted pillow topper. Notice the shading. I do this by dipping one side of my paint brush in one color and the other side in a slightly darker or lighter shade of the same color.
Now I have most of the pumpkin painted. For each section of the pumpkin I choose slightly different colors and always have two colors on my brush at the same time. The result is beautiful shading.
Here's how it looks once I had the pumpkin fully painted. I added in some highlights with yellow and a touch of white. I also added in some shadows with a bit of brown and gray.
Why Pillow Toppers?The reason we like making toppers - instead of a completely new pillow - is because you do not need a new pillow every time you want to change out your decorations.
Our pillows fade in the sun as our porch faces west. So, rather than replacing the whole pillow, we just swap out the topper.
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