Watercolor Paintings with Black Glue Outlines
Another one of our summer projects, inspired by a project from my daughter’s school art program – watercolors with an outline of black glue. This gives the picture the appearance almost of stained glass, and keeps the colors from bleeding over the lines. I…
Get Your Nails Done
I’m trying out the hot new summer shade that’s everywhere right now – here’s the obligatory nail glamour shot ala Pinterest:
Paper Plate Art
Viv was the arts and crafts instructor for today – she got out all the materials she wanted us to use and helped set up our art station at the dining table. We had paper plates, paint daubers, watercolors, glitter glue, Elmer’s glue and…
Pixel Painting Take Two
Awhile back I saw a neat idea for pixel painting and tried it out. Here’s my latest attempt: Here’s the image I used:
Crayon Resist with Watercolors
I was struggling to come up with a project tonight, surfing Pinterest, when I came across a pin describing using white crayon and watercolor paint. The pin directed me to this post on a site I hadn’t seen before: Alisa Burke – which I’m…
Crib to Headboard Transformation Complete
Finally, after I started this project forever ago, I’m done with my drop-side crib to headboard transformation! Here’s what our bedroom and bed looked like before: Nice college-style bedroom. Note the absolute lack of design elements. Here’s what it looks like now: Oh my…
The Headboard Is Almost Finished
Today was beautiful here, if a bit chilly for spring, and I took advantage of the nice weather to work on a few of my ongoing projects. I thinned the stand of bamboo some more and then stripped the pruned canes so that now…
Preschool Car Bingo
Recently we came up with a fun game to play with the kids in the car: Find a car for each color of the rainbow, with the optional difficulty of doing it in rainbow order. We played it by just saying the color of…
Kids Route Map
As part of my kids road trip prep, I made a route map they can color in as we go. What I envision is that I’ll mark the map at each stop we make and they can color up to that point – that…
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