My old gray wool skirt. Style: outdated Size: outgrown I decided to cut it up and make package toppers. I had black and white toile scraps leftover from re-covering a chair, along with some assorted trims and vintage buttons. I cut out simple shapes for the bodies, wings, and front […]
Author: Scarlett
The White Owl in the Belfry
Owls and poetry again! I drew this sketch to go along with Tennyson’s poem “The Owl”. With the holidays upon us, he had to have some festive adornment, of course. The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the […]
Turning a Spool into a Pin
Here’s another gift idea using spools. Turning a wooden spool into a pin is fairly simple, but I want to share two things I learned making this one. First, wrapping a small rubber band around the base of the flower helped it to stick down into the hole at the […]
Marbled Paper Owl Collages
The scraps of paper left over from my kid’s autumn trees were so cool, I had to do something with them. I cut out some owl designs and made three collages. Love the texture of the paint! The long pieces are scraps left over from the leaves we […]
Kid’s Autumn Tree Pictures
With a stack of colorful marbled papers from the last post, my young artists were ready to make autumn leaves. Using a simple cardboard stencil we cut out colorful leaves from our papers. I gave them each a large piece of white cardboard and told them to make a background […]
Easy Paper Marbling for Kid’s Fall Foliage Projects
Maybe it’s because of the drought. Or maybe it’s because we didn’t fertilize last spring. Whatever the reason, the trees around our house still haven’t started turning colors yet and it’s almost Thanksgiving! I decided to let my young artist create some fall colors of her own to use in […]
Dressing Up Wire Hangers With Spools and Seam Tape
Over the past few days, I worked out a really simple and inexpensive way to ‘dress-up’ your wire hangers. If you’re like me, your closet is always full of plain white wire hangers from the dry cleaner. I thought it might be fun to at least have the first […]
Victorian Christmas ATCs
“Cardinals in the Snow” Gift Jars
I’ve been using our left-over grape stems in a lot of projects lately. They make perfect little trees! Here’s one project I finished recently that I thought would make nice Christmas gifts. First, eat up all your grapes and trim the stem into a nice tree shape… Next, wrap brown […]