License Plate Game Map
I left the license plate game sheet I made at home so I decided to whip up a new one – my idea to draw a US map got slightly derailed by the slight problem with scale I had (note: gap between Alabama and Georgia/Florida).
I wrote up a state list too – almost in alphabetical order except poor Vermont who had to get stuck in the space I skipped after the A states.
Hope we have fun looking for plates!
Baking Day!
Scones and Brownies . . .
Kids Travel Journals
I took little lined books from the dollar store and turned them into travel journals for the kids. The first pages are filled with route pictures that are divided up into mileage segments, which will hopefully be helpful for them to visualize “are we there yet?”. They can color in a segment for each 50 miles we drive – I saw something similar to this online but they had the trip divided into hour-long segments, and I don’t know how long with stops each day’s drive will take us, so mileage seemed easier to handle.
I also pasted in a few maps that I made earlier, and the car color bingo.
A Little Bit of Everything
Tonight I’m sitting at the computer working on a little bit of everything – putting together a few mix cds (two for us, one for the kiddos), finishing up a few little graphics projects I’ve got going, and printing photos to put together a little album for Domi.
Nothing exciting enough to photograph, sorry! If I have the energy when I’m done maybe I’ll post the track list for the cd mixes.
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 now going to delve into because it seems really interesting and full of creative ideas – and after reading it I went straight for my materials.
This was a really fun project – first the quiet concentration of drawing the design, then the fun of flooding the paint onto the paper and watching the design come to life. It reminded me of those activity books I had as a child where you scribbled on a blank page and a picture appeared. What a nice way to spend a windy, rainy evening.
The scan turned out terrible – I left the painting on the drawing pad and that plus the not-so-great scanner did a number on it, but you get the idea.
DVD Organizing
My OCD tendencies were in full force tonight as I worked on a system to organize the kids’ DVDs for the car. No picture tonight because really, how boring would that be? The main things I needed were a way to identify which DVDs or CDs were in which slot, and which kid gets next pick of DVD (not that I NEEDED these things, but like I mentioned, OCD).
I solved those problems by printing out the cover art for the DVDs and then labeling the first 6 spots in the case so that I can tell at a glance what’s in the player, and by dedicating one spot in the case for the ‘next to pick’. When one kid picks, the next kid’s photo goes into that spot so that we can ALL tell who’s up next. Hopefully that heads off drama (probably not though).
Scrapbooking is Hell
I’m not a fan of scrap-booking. Even though I like a lot of other types of crafts I find putting together scrapbooks to be tedious and boring – I just don’t have the patience to mess around with different backgrounds and fonts and stickers and. . . ugh.
However, I was pulling things out of the shed today to take to the dump and I found a scrapbook that needed scrapping (booking? whatever). In 2005 I ran in the NYC marathon and ended up with a pile of photos and paper memorabilia, and shortly thereafter my husband bought me a scrapbook to compile it all in. Seven years later, I figured it was about time!
Movie Night Doodle
This is a doodle that started out as sharpie on paper, then was colored and manipulated with GIMP on the computer. Not to inspired tonight – just ready to go to bed!
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