Creative Projects

Baby Knox, Drawings

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 […]

Art Stamping

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 […]

Art With Children, Autumn Art

Candy Corn Art

Somethin’ strange is going on with my blog! I’ve been searching for some of my previous fall posts and I can’t find them. It’s like they’ve disappeared! As you can imagine this has me a little frazzled. My husband decided that the safest route would be to switch over to […]

Autumn Art, Drawings

Candy Corn Queen 2011

She started out as a sketch on tracing paper, just like last year. I decided on an Elizabethan style queen and  initially sketched out a castle along with her….but I changed my mind on the castle later on. After the basic sketch was done, I made a copy of it, […]

Autumn Art, Drawings

Moonlight Maiden

I used Derwent Colour Soft pencils and ZIG Millenium pens to draw this maiden in the moonlight. I’m not a big fan of the scary stuff this time of year. In fact, the only witch I’ve ever been fond of is this one.  But I do like to draw and […]