What Do You Want to Make Today?
It’s funny what happens to the kids of bloggers. These are kids who will do something cute and ask if you’re posting it to Facebook (well, that’s probably everyone’s kids these days), who take pictures for their own pretend blog posts or play making videos because that’s what their parents do. The other day the […]
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 […]
In addition to the larger washers I had in my stash, one of which I used to make a washer necklace, I also have a box of 100 1/4 inch washers I wanted to do something with. I’ve seen a lot of people paint washers with nail polish, but I wanted to try some different […]
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 […]
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 I have a lot of […]
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 […]
Sometimes it is fun to use old art in a different way, to look at it in a different way. Today’s challenge asks you to cut up old art and put it back together in a different way, lots of ways, or not at all to see what happens. Playing with Cut Up Old Art […]