make aliens out of molded tin foil, wrap up in tape, prime & paint your beast. it took two hours for me to make him. tons of fun & cheap & easy!!!!
Category: autodidact
Cheshire cat made using matt board
Buy white matt board-full sheets. Use it to draw & paint & glitter designs for parties, classrooms, art studios 🙂 matt board is a wonderful way to paint on & its cheap, you can cut it into shapes (gotta have super strong hands) This cat was commissioned for a party- I painted this example because…
Sir Henry
We got home from school @ 3:45. Henry & I made the sword & shield out of matt board. He painted the shield, I did the sword. My daughter found the ‘&’ dragon on the internet & cut it out from photo paper. Outlined everything in jumbo sharpie. My silver shirt on backwards, my brown…
beside me, lily
how to outwit the hot noon sunlight
pun intended
 Mums the word I’ve got balls I’ve been pieced togetherI’m tired These pix were taken on an overcast, blah day & taken within a few minutes of each other, not far from my neighborhood.  I’ve just started driving again & the feeling of freedom was so intense, I felt as though i were flying.  I had only…
halloween art projects
These are two originals done by two year olds. Â The ghost is a child’s foot painted with washable white paint. Â This is great fun, to make your student giggle by painting his/her foot white. Â I placed the black paper on the ground & i held the child’s ankle as he stepped on the black paper….
a little frayed around the edges
I guess this is what happens to us after the first bloom of youth has passed. If it is our appearance that we are most concerned with-it is because society wants us to believe it is important to continue to look young. Corporations sell ‘snake-oil’ formulas & injections to keep us blooming, the more expensive,…
3 cents to travel by horse
i can afford that price, i just need a horse. i took this i phone picture yesterday in Nashville, TN. crazy, to read this sign while standing beside a four lane street, near Vanderbilt hospital, cars rushing past. i looked up the word, ‘macadamized road’ too… first known use of the word was 1824. it…
DIY fake windows
we bought a house that had a room with no windows, it did have a half bath, so we knew the house had been remodeled to add another room behind the wall shown. we added natural light with a custom & crazy skylight. The house had so many additions added over the years, the roof…
the story about how the spider caught a rainbow
not really a story. i made her (spider) mad. I took the water spritzer for my plants…& i washed her web for her. doesn’t it look grand? the droplets caught light & shattered it into a rainbow. i’m so lucky that she, my halloween spider decorator, decided to build her web above my front door….
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