This idea originally stemmed from coasters – I wanted to make coasters for Mother’s Day but they were extremely uneven so I decided to make a wall plaques instead. I really wanted to experiment with my ink pads to create some Mother’s Day Gifts. My goal was to incorporate the children (either them helping or their hand or finger … Continue reading
I have been trying to get the Booga involved a little more in my art and my crafting stuff. The princess was all about creating art, coloring in coloring books and playing with chalk when she was his age. Booga still eats chalk and crayons so it makes creating stuff with him extremely difficult. I … Continue reading
I know I don’t post on Sundays but it is Mother’s Day and I wanted to share some photos of my mommy (aka: Jude) and myself. Also this is the first Mother’s Day we have spent together since 1998. “The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men – … Continue reading
I demonstrated how to make this on In the Paint Box on Thursday. The original idea came from Ann Butler’s calender post on The Hive. I didn’t have one of those binding things but I thought the use of coasters was brilliant! I decided a tutorial would be in order so I typed up a … Continue reading
On Friday, the amazingly-crafty Cynthia Gagen did a wonderful demo on how to do a Pen Flower Planter. I can not wait to make one for my grandmother’s Ice Cream Shop for her pens she is going to love it! The flowers are pens – I think that is the cutest thing in the world! … Continue reading
I admit I procrastinated on teacher gifts, primarily because I didn’t know what to do for them and I also wanted to do the same thing for each of them. For their birthdays I made each of them earrings, one of the teachers I broke a set up and saved the necklace for Christmas. The … Continue reading
I am really into coasters this Holiday Season but there was no way I was paying $20 for 4 coasters (beverage NOT included). So we went to my favorite supply store (Home Depot) and bought white ceramic bathroom tiles ($0.16 a piece). I once again am using PLAID Enamels paint (leftovers from last year) the … Continue reading
Now that I am back to the land of the living after my battle with the Savannah Crud (yes, that is the technical name for it) I wanted to do a project with my son. I was looking back through some of my Arts & Activities Magazines and I came across a project in the … Continue reading
Last year for Christmas I wanted the Princess to make Jeff something really, really special but it had to be with stuff I had. I had craft sticks lots and lots of Craft Sticks. I did a Google Search for Craft Stick Projects and came up with a Craft Stick Trinket Box (Family Fun). This … Continue reading
Every year we get cheap, ugly advertisement magnets on our phone books, I never want to throw them away because I always say I’m going to do something with them. This morning I got inspired, I was cleaning and I came across some of the PrincessE’s paintings and decided to stop what I was doing … Continue reading
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