A Craft for the Season

Homemade wrapping paper is so much fun to make!!! Plain brown Kraft paper, a few Christmas-y stamps and you've got cute (and inexpensive) wrapping paper.










On some pages, the kids added their original artwork. A fun craft!

Learning time with Mom

My friend, Stacie, is extremely creative as she teaches her young son. This Jesse Tree craft is calling my name!


http://learningtimewithmom.blogspot.com/2011/11/jesse-tree.html

Children and Art

http://livinginhislove-shauna.blogspot.com/2011/10/encouraging-my-young-artists.html

A dear friend of mine is wonderfully intentional with the choices she makes to nurture the creativity in her children. Read up!

Zentangle

My first attempt at a zentangle!

Large Format Art

Newport, Oregon has a row of buildings covered with sea-themed murals. It made the tiny seaport a place of beauty and interest.

Adorable!

I love this music sign that Valerie created. Can't wait to make one for my home, just can't decide where!!!

http://dvkurtz.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-project.html?m=1

Guest idea

My artsy mother had this great idea to create a gardening basket for the guest room. Love it! I hope that it will give guests inventive to get outside and enjoy the garden.

Art display

My BFF :) makes her home beautiful and functional. This art display line is low enough that her 5-year-old can change the art himself. By painting the clothespins a variety of bright colors, she added even more interest.

(sorry about the messy bed, my guys slept on her floor last night)




Adorable!

Beautiful art

Love love love the artwork on this duvet!!! I wish I could draw like this!






Apparently it's comfortable too!!

Berry Bounty!

What an amazing artist is our Creator! This is my-latest-new craft-canning bounty from the farmers market.

Graffiti

What a special time. This weekend some friends of my mom's were visiting and they had the great idea to write scriptures on the beams and subfloors of her new apartment above our garage. Meaningful art. The kids contributed amazingly with drawings and their own ideas too.

This makes me happy.

Books.

A Lovely View

Had a great weekend away. To think this is less than 2 hours from our door! My husband gave me a gift of 24 hours alone in a hotel to just be, to plan for our upcoming school year and to rest.

Try to get some time to yourself, out of the house, even if just for a few hours in a quiet hotel lobby or a library. It will help you hear God more clearly and love your family better. Just do it! Plan today to take some time in the next week. Ask your husband for help and support in this. We need rest and rejuvenation if we are going to successfully accomplish this job of raising hearts for eternity!


Payette Lake, McCall, Idaho

Look what I found!

In case you can't tell what my little artist crafted above, it's supposed to be me! Little Man raided Daddy's arcade quarter stash for supplies.

Chalk art

While watching the demolition for my Mom's new above-garage apartment, we made some chalk art.

Botany and Art!

This morning, Jack brought in a branch from our honey locust tree. I
photocopied it first so that the boys' fingers could trace and practice the
shapes. Then we used colored pencils and drew them into our art pads. We
learned how the veins bring the water and nutrients from the soil. A
wonderful activity for a stormy day.

Self-portrait

The boys had a great time making portraits of themselves!

Love me some cowboys boots.

Especially on my favorite little cowboys.

Garden Tags Part 2!

Fun Fun Fun!!! You can see that I had some help with them. Endearing,
wonderful!!!