Category: DIY projects
DIY art for the garden
This art project is a very simple one, if you don’t mind stopping by a brook or stream in search of the perfect rock. Or a trip to the dollar store in search of marbles. This was put together by my mother & it sits, usually around her indoor house plants. A shock of blue,…
stacked stones
my mother’s porch. her glass art, a miniature, sits atop her pile of stones. someday those stones could find themselves as sand, then fired in a kiln, made into glass… DIY art project…the stacking of stones is one anyone can do. Glue together if they are to sit in the garden.
rock, paper, scissors & glass
her media choices are ever changing, her style changes as does the seasons. My mother finds an art form & takes it every direction she cares to, until she stumbles onto another. Her studio table, today, is covered in glass- bright, colorful & sharp. All waiting to be assembled. On her shelves, sit her origami…
yellow stands
my daughter’s family birthday party was yesterday. I bought two bouquets at Whole Foods (great prepackaged flowers less then Publix!) & my dog & I went outside for what was left in my yard. I took the bouquets apart & mixed them up in my very small vases & I had 10 vases to scatter…
wonderful gift idea for Grandparents…or anyone
I wrote these words on card stock & gave them to the children to color. I gave ‘We’ to my youngest because it has the fewest letters, therefor less effort required. My oldest daughter, she had to color both, ‘Grandpa & Bubbe’ & ‘Nana & Giddy’ for both sets of grandparents (Bubbe is for a…
ah…a Camelot knight lives here
For this is a noble house of Saab. With Sir Henry charming his mother of Halloween candy for breakfast. Easy to make…pencil, matt board, acrylic paint, the AMAZING Chisel tip Sharpie (best invention EVER) for the back of the shield- two inch wide masking tape. So Henry could carry it. directions…8″ of tape then, 4″…
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…
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