(click to view larger)
With my mom owning a quilting business, we know a few elderly ladies who really stitch up a storm. This one, we'll call her Millie or Tillie, quilts so fast that it goes straight from the bolts of fabric to the sewing machine to the bed.
1.26.2008
IF: Stitch, in color
(click to view larger)
With my mom owning a quilting business, we know a few elderly ladies who really stitch up a storm. This one, we'll call her Millie or Tillie, quilts so fast that it goes straight from the bolts of fabric to the sewing machine to the bed.
Fishing Craft
The Squirrel (age3) and I made some fish we can "catch" with a magnet. View more pics from this craft here.
1.17.2008
1.11.2008
New kid's room
Our almost-4- yearold daughter's room has been turned into a "Farm Room!" It features a tree with apples to actually pick, fluffy sheep to actually pet, cloth clouds, a barn for a closet, and flowers we crafted together.
Here's what we did: Below is "before" (baby nursery decor we put up when I was pregnant for her...this was a little sad to take down)...
I had given her choices like Under the Sea, Jungle, Farm etc, and I was pleased she picked Farm because of my great idea to make her closet doors the "barn." Anyway, here's the story: I started with penciling on sheep next to her bed:
When we began with the blue sky together ("stay above the horizon line"), she eventually started to paint a person next to the sheep and cleverly told me it was the shepherd:
I thought it was very special so I never painted over it; here remains the shepherd as I added darker green around each sheep and the horizon:
and then painted in a brighter, cheerier green:
The clouds are a sheer fabric that matches the valance:
My favorite part: I glued on (stretchedout) cotton balls to the sheep to make them fluffy:
(here's the shepherd up close):
In the tree trunk I drew a squirrel because that's our daughter's nickname:
I made the barn by painting red around the closet doors and using white tape for the lines (so we don't paint the wood):
As an excellent cute touch, we added these flowers we made (great craft out of empty paper towel or toilet paper rolls from Big and Little Art this summer!):
I had given her choices like Under the Sea, Jungle, Farm etc, and I was pleased she picked Farm because of my great idea to make her closet doors the "barn." Anyway, here's the story: I started with penciling on sheep next to her bed:
When we began with the blue sky together ("stay above the horizon line"), she eventually started to paint a person next to the sheep and cleverly told me it was the shepherd:
I thought it was very special so I never painted over it; here remains the shepherd as I added darker green around each sheep and the horizon:
and then painted in a brighter, cheerier green:
The clouds are a sheer fabric that matches the valance:
My favorite part: I glued on (stretchedout) cotton balls to the sheep to make them fluffy:
(here's the shepherd up close):
In the tree trunk I drew a squirrel because that's our daughter's nickname:
I made the barn by painting red around the closet doors and using white tape for the lines (so we don't paint the wood):
As an excellent cute touch, we added these flowers we made (great craft out of empty paper towel or toilet paper rolls from Big and Little Art this summer!):
And you can see there we added fake apples that attach to the tree with Velcro-- she can "pick" them from her tree and stick them back on!
We found bouquets of 7 small apples at A.C.Moore (craft store)
We found bouquets of 7 small apples at A.C.Moore (craft store)
And to top it all off, if you can see them below, I wrote subtle words all around the top of the wall: it's Psalm 23, usually known as the Shepherd's Psalm:
Back when I had drawn the sheep in pencil, our daughter drew a sheep the way I drew them so we made a frame to put her sheep drawing up in her farm room:
[this craft can be viewed by clicking here]
1.07.2008
IllustrationFriday: "100%"
Although she is a tomboy, she's still 100% female and so he is 100% in love as his opponent is 100% beaten on this 100% wintery day.
(Boy is this a stretchable topic if i've ever seen one.)
My Christmas Card
Every year I make a new illustration to send as our Christmas card to family and friends. (I couldn't show it until after I had sent it to everyone.)
My message behind this started with the Scripture "Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow." in Psalm 51
So I came up with snowmen. What will they be doing? A mother snowman is straightening a child snowman's scarf. Wouldn't it be cool to pose real snowmen like that? But only a photograph would deliver the idea that they're not actually moving snowmen but posed, unless I really brainstormed little indications for it in an illustration.
After I drew the basic drawing, I wanted it to be more specifically for Christmas, as opposed to just a winter illustration. Besides the red and green colors, this is where the symbols come in: Christmas trees on the scarf, gifts on the hat, and then drums on the mittens (the little drummerboy being one of my fave seasonal songs), and of course hearts for Love on the mother's hat.
Plus, I decided Christmas light bulbs were more fitting objects for eyes than coal is.
To view the context of this card, and other Christmas cards of mine, go to my Portfolio
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
