This little hot-air balloon ornament was fun to make and it’s SO pretty on the tree. The silver glitter paint is super sparkly near the tree lights. The balloon I used came from a package labeled “water balloons” so it was extra small. The little ‘baskets’ fell off […]
Creative Projects
Painting With “ArtRage”
This is my first try at painting on an iPad. It’s my daughter’s iPad, actually, but she lets me play with it sometimes. 🙂 I downloaded the Art Rage app and Oh My Goodness. All of the options are amazing! It really feels like you’re painting…the paint smears and blends […]
A Shadow Lurking
All the festivities of the season aren’t able to keep away this melancholy. It comes and goes. I’m working on some miniature hot-air balloon ornaments that are turning out really cool so I’ll be sharing those soon. But not today. This month is already proving to be more difficult […]
Holiday Sketch Book
Christmas Owls, Package Toppers
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 Style: outdated Size: outgrown I decided to cut it up and make package toppers.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]