halloween art projects

These are two originals done by two year olds.  The ghost is a child’s foot painted with washable white paint.  This is great fun, to make your student giggle by painting his/her foot white.  I placed the black paper on the ground & i held the child’s ankle as he stepped on the black paper….

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….

Montpelier high school dried roses

during my bed rest (three darn months) I got a delivery of flowers & an amazing letter from my graduating class of 1988. The letter included blew my mind so much, that I didn’t want to lose the flowers. After a two days, i took the roses from the bouquet to dry them. I am…

he holds my flowers

i took my ridiculous, but necessary, walker outside to see my gardens. I’d been outside only one other time since June 24th & saw that without my attention, things went to crap. kinda like my hip bones. however, today was a small victory. I cut my own flowers, that means my bones have knitted themselves…

can you paint bamboo & make a fence?

Bamboo is plentiful in Birmingham, Alabama. Can you believe that?! I lived in a house that was near unclaimed woods with all kinds of trees…and grass, like Bamboo. My children & i would wrestle dead bamboo out of the ground & drag it home (not drag, carry without effort, as it weighed nothing). I wanted…