Over Mother’s Day weekend I decided I wanted to paint my toenails, so the girl decided she wanted me to paint her toenails. And her fingernails. And my fingernails, too. I don’t wear fingernail polish very often, because between typing and crafting it never looks good for long. And in this case it was even […]
Paint the Sky {Craft Challenge, Day 129}
We’ve been having some really great skies lately. Layers of blue upon blue, a bright cobalt in the highest reaches gradually lightening through layers stratified by clouds until the bottom is almost completely white with just a tinge of blue. It’s hard to capture in photography, so I decided to paint the sky. Or at […]
Paper and Spraypaint {Craft Challenge, Day 122}
One thing that is a fun creative challenge is to combine different materials or genres of art or craft into the same project. I know somewhere once I saw a list of a bunch of different crafty mashups, and I’m pretty sure I pinned it, but of course now I can’t find it, but when […]
Painting with Yarn {Craft Challenge, Day 107}
I have a lot of little bits of yarn. This is just a handful. It might seem silly to keep them, but I do use them. They’re great for stuffing projects with, and you can use them in art as well. Even if you don’t have a horde of tiny bits in your house like […]
Paint on a Map {Craft Challenge, Day 99}
I was cleaning up the girl’s room the other day and happened across this sheet from an atlas that I’d given her last year when we did her dragon egg hunt. She won’t miss it, so I decided to use it as a background for a project. You can paint on a map or draw […]
Paint to Music {Craft Challenge, Day 89}
The other day we were listening to music, as we often do on the weekends, and the girl said something about making a drawing that went with the song. It’s a lot of fun to draw, doodle or paint to music, to try to capture the theme of the song or how it makes you […]
Watch Paint Dry {Craft Challenge, Day 80}
This is a project that takes more than one day to complete, but the active part of it is only a few minutes. I was inspired by some paint that I accidentally left in the bottom of a bowl recently. When it was dry it peeled up in a cool way and I wanted to […]