Silhouette Fun

Happy Birthday, Joseph!!

We had some cool ideas, but couldn't get any of them to work...we spent half a day trying to find a second "p" block, but no luck. I guess this will have to do! Happy Birthday!

Now go here!

Or start over here.

Super Skyla Display Board

My latest project was to make something so display the abundance of fine art we are creating around here, since the one frame I had been using wasn't cutting it lately. Plus, with both Preston and Skyla starting preschool in the fall, we will have even more.


I happened to have the trim piece cut and painted in my basement left from when I built some shelves in the bathroom down there, so all I had to do was glue on the cute little clothes pins and mount it. I love the title of Skyla's drawing, "Super Skyla." She acutally believes she is a "Super."

*Please excuse the phone cord in the picure...I cannot figure out how to hide it! Thought I might be able to run it over the art display, but it isn't long enough. I'm ready to move the phone to solve the problem!*

It's a Fish tank!

We bought some wooden blocks in these boxes almost two months ago. Somehow, Skyla managed to keep the boxes around using them for toys. Today, she announced that it was a fish tank, which inspired us to craft.

They turned out really cute. You can see I did most of the work on Preston's and Skyla did her own. We used furniture paint for the black, and I won't let her paint it herself, so she passed on the paint (Although, we may end up doing it now that she saw how nice it looks).

This could be done by cutting open any flat-ish box, although the perfectly placed plastic did make for a nice look. We made the rock caves by crumpling up the paper bag that we had used to cover the table while painting the box. It would be fun to do a bit more three-dimensional stuff by having some grass on the front or more fish hanging from the top flap.

Worm

Here is the latest “up cycling” project I did with my kids. They LOVE them. In case you can't tell what it's supposed to be, it's a worm...or a caterpillar...or a snake. :) Just a sock that had no match and tons and tons of dryer lent. Note: it took a shocking amount of dryer lint to fill these. Also, sew on the eyes before stuffing. We did it backwards and it definitely not the way to go.