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 […]
Author: Scarlett
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 […]
Illustrating Poetry-“The Road Less Taken” by Robert Frost
Starting with a cardboard box, my young artist began to create a scene to illustrate one of the well-known poems we’ve read this week: “The Road Less Taken” by Robert Frost. She collected some twigs from outside and using some glue, added Flower-Soft to some of the small branches. She […]
Starting A Memory Album
I love Knox so much. Losing him doesn’t seem possible… He had his first ear infection last week but he’s feeling better now. His intake went critically low, but he managed to stay hydrated and has managed to take in almost 11 ounces of Pediasure today on his own. I […]
More Wooden Spool Toys
These little spool toys are so much fun to make! And they are much easier now that I bought my first power tool–a Dremmel, along with an EZ544 cutting blade….zip!, right through the spool! Just like the first one I made, I used copyright free clip-art images to make match-up […]
String Pumpkins
Around this time of year, the young crafters I know are eager to make just about anything that resembles a pumpkin. We gathered orange embroidery thread, balloons, brushes, and whipped up a batch of paper mache paste (flour and water). They covered the balloons in paste and started wrapping string […]
Stamping With Celery
Have you ever stamped with celery? It’s an old trick, but in case you’ve never tried it, carefully cut off the stalks from a bunch of celery and you are left with a pretty rose stamp. Celery roses make pretty stationery. I stamped on vintage notebook paper and added […]