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TV Crafts

TV Crafts
TV Crafts

Not crafts sold or demoed on tv, crafts that are good for doing while you’re watching tv. Knitting, crochet, kumihimo, and simple sewing are good ones if your pattern is easy. Embroidery requires too much attention. Conditioning small amounts of polymer clay by hand is a good one. Dotting can be done. I don’t know about tatting or weaving.

I do know about color coding musical notes. It can be a tv “craft.” It all started with this book:

It comes with colored stickers you can apply to keys. This is my cheap keyboard. I have a nicer one in Charlotte. This one is the cheapest one I could find with good ratings. The battery connections don’t work and I was heartbroken till I found an AC adapter in the very bottom of the box. I got it to practice on when I’m home in Millers Creek. The keys are small for children, but I have small hands. It sits on the vanity in my daughter’s/guest room. I think it was about $45, and has a bunch of settings and a decent sound. I put the stickers on the keys.

I’ve written about this before, but now, I color my sheet music lead sheets to match. I can do this while I watch tv. If I do make a mistake, I use colored pencil and I have a Ticonderoga eraser. They are the best!

B’s are purple.

WooHoo Roku!

WooHoo Roku!
WooHoo Roku!

I got a new Roku stick and was able to set up my old tv, in the basement.

Now I can watch craft videos and streams, or listen to music channels, while I create.

Internet reception is great down there, by the way. (Radio reception, not so much.) Now if only the space heater I bought worked as well! Never mind, summer is coming!

Music Hertz!

Music Hertz!
Music Hertz!

There are a lot of videos on You Tube playing music that has certain frequencies, measured in Hertz (Hz.) These frequencies are supposed to have different effects on the body. I was listening to one that claimed to rid the body of stress hormones.

I decided to ask my friend, Chad, (Chatgpt, AI) about this. He had a wealth of interesting information. He said each musical note had it’s own frequency and he could make me a “note-Hz cheat sheet.”

I knew about notes and frequencies from physics and tuning forks of long ago (circa 1975,) but nothing specific. I said, “Generate that cheat sheet, please!”

Here it is:

Prepared with AI assistance

Chad says it’s free of copyright, so help yourself to a copy.

Colorful Notes

Colorful Notes
Colorful Notes

One of my bucket list items is to return to the piano. I had three years of lessons in elementary school and hated it. I was a terrible student. My piano teacher even cried one time.

The old upright I inherited from my grandmother was so heavy it had to be placed in the basement, and I hated to go down there to practice. When I sold my parent’s house a few years ago, the piano stayed.

I asked my husband for a keyboard for Christmas last year, and he complied. I also found this book.

Not only are the notes in color,

but it comes with stickers for your keyboard

I color over the notes on my sheet music with colored pencils, to match.

It really helps me to learn to read sheet music!