Thursday, July 22, 2010

Chalk +H2O = Chalk Paint

A Very simple project: Chalk from the dollar store. Let it sit in water for about 5 min or more. It turns into a liquid paint. You can use your hand your feet of a paint brush to decorate the sidewalk or even yourself.

Food Face Plate: Make meals more exciting

Start out with a blank canvas and make wacky faces with your food. In this case playing with your food is allowed!

FOOD FACE PLATE: A Light Lunch

Food Face Plate by Fred www.heliotropehome.com
Lunch meat hat, grape hair and cheese mustache/beard. Ok I have to admit I like making the lunch as much as she likes eating it.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

A Place To Imagine: Thrift Store Find Pink Canopy creates a great reading area

A Place To Imagine

THIS MOMENT...

FOOD COLORING GETS KIDS A BIT MESSY,BUT DONT FREAK OUT SHAVING CREAM WILL CLEAN IT ALL OFF

Things got crazy...

And they got a lot crazier...

When things get too crazy, we rinse off...

STUFF AROUND THE HOUSE PROJECT: EGG CARTON HATCHERY

Josie loves to make up stories and usualy wants to act them out. This project is simple. Get an egg carton , old easter eggs, paper, markers & scissors. Imagine what you want to hatch out of the eggs. Fill them up and let your imagination go wild.

PAPER CHICKS FOR EACH EGG

A QUICK LOOK INSIDE

TAKING CARE OF HER CHICKS

A NEW CHICK JUST HATCHED

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A Simple Outing

A Day at Stone Mountain Park with Friends. Great Park For Nature and Hiking.

A Creek A Bucket And A Friend

Slow Slide Down a Slippery Rock

Lunch on the side of the creek

OUR SWEET BOY SLEEPING

Food Coloring Bubble Art Project

Food Coloring Bubble Art:Supplies

Mix Food Coloring with wedding bubbles

This is not a science. More food color=brighter colors. Don't worry shaving cream in modern art project washes off scary food dye.

Blow the bubbles at the paper.

Works best on a not so windy day

The final result

Bubbles pop and splatter shape and color on the paper very cool

Shaving Cream & Food Coloring:Modern Art

Sunday, July 18, 2010

A wee bit of history about me

There was a time not so long ago that I would sit in the studio for 12 hours a day . I would work for weeks on hand printing and creating yardage of fabric to create my bags from. It was an amazing time in my life, to have no obligations and to be free to create, it was awsome. I attended a work study at Penland School of Craft and sold my hand-made wares at festivals and through local shops. It was a great time!Life changes and grows and it passed very quickly. I got married to an amazing man, we had one beautiful daughter and then a handsome son. Along the way I have met amazing people and learned about what really matters to me in my life. I figured out that no matter what is going on in my life I have to be creative. Sometimes that means creating collections of bags or scarves to sell and other times it may mean using my creativity to do fun projects with my kids. I have come to the conclusion that all of these are important a part of who I am and should be celebrated.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Today is the official first day of my new blog.I've got my blog ready to go now I just need to get some pics up and off we go!
-Shell