I don’t know where I heard about them, but I recently read something about Permapaque opaque markers that sparked my interest. They’re basically paint pens that are permanent, archival quality and work on tons of surfaces, but they don’t require the shaking and priming that most paint pens do, they’re …
I have a confession to make: I almost never finish a cup of coffee. I drink some at breakfast, usually make a to-go cup to take when I take the girl to school, drink a little in the car, sometimes have a little while I’m doing chores or other morning …
I mentioned the other day when I did my paper punch collage that I was punching a lot of paper to make a project for the kids in the girl’s class to make for Mother’s Day. I did the craft with them on Thursday, and it was so fun and …
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 …
It seems like just about every project, in whatever genre, leaves leftovers, and I’m always reluctant to get rid of those little leftover bits, even when it would be easy to. For example, I keep a lot of tiny bits of paper left over from other projects even though it’s …
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 …
How well do you remember the places you used to live? It turns out I don’t all that well. I can remember generally where different rooms were, but it turns out when I tried to draw the house I grew up in, I, for one, did a really bad job …
