Crab Pot Portrait
After a busy day we went out to celebrate a birthday tonight and as we waited for our food I sketched a portrait of the couple across the table.Any guesses who they are?
Japanese Plum Tree
I did some more playing around with photographs tonight. I took these photos yesterday at the same time as the hellebores, but I did the photo editing tonight. First I tried the same technique of selectively colorizing a photo, with a more subtle effect…
Origami Tuesday – Wait, Is That A Thing?
It is now! I had no idea what to do for a project today, so I went browsing on the web and stumbled across some origami. First via Pinterest I found some really cool looking flowers with a YouTube video tutorial but there were…
Organizing the Playroom
Today’s project veers dangerously into the area of doing laundry, but it had to be done and I do manage to get my creative juices flowing when I’m deep in an organization project. Two weeks ago when we moved the kids into one room…
Day Trip to Vancouver B.C.
Oh Canada! Freighters at the mouth of English Bay Stanley Park
Easter Eggs in the Trees
We finished part two of our garden Easter decorating today. We took plastic Easter eggs, strung heavy-duty thread through them using a sewing needle and hung them from our front-yard oak tree. The smaller solid colored eggs were super easy to string because each…
Decorating the Garden For Easter
It was so beautiful today that on the way home from the store my daughter and I had the same idea – lets decorate the garden for Easter! We got out the eggs we made last year (plastic Easter eggs stuck onto little sticks…
Little Bit of This and a Little Bit of That
I worked on a lot of stuff today but don’t have much completed to show for it. The temperature finally crept above 50 degrees here (well, okay, it was right AT 50) so I got some more paint on the headboard. It still needs…
Evolution of a Bracelet: Beaded Friendship Bangle
I started out with plain knotted friendship bracelets, then I moved on to beaded bracelets, then I made some plain knotted bangles, so the obvious evolution was: Beaded knotted friendship bangles! Oohhh I’m liking this one, and I’ve still got a handful of bangles…
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