Crafty Boys Strike Again!

We bought our materials yesterday and worked on them today. They were fun! So what if they cost more than those at Old Navy or Target. These are one-of-a-kind beauties! The stencil is made out of freezer paper. We printed the designs, cut out the parts where we wanted the paint to go, then ironed [...]

Our Thanksgiving Decoration

Idea from Family Fun magazine. You just use cotton muslin (very inexpensive), white glue and acrylic paint. Draw the design on the muslin, trace with a bead of white glue (these areas stay white). Get the fabric wet, add paint. When dry, soak the fabric in water until you can peel off the white glue [...]

Just Another Day Off

Starting the post with a tangent: the little one asked me this morning, “Mom, where’s that one place we went with the guns and the old building and the tea party?” Me: “You forgot what it’s called? Remember? The Alamo?” Hahaha. Hah. But really, we wanted to share about the day after the Alamo. I [...]

A Little Update

~ Yes, I got glasses! Funny thing, wearing them gives me a feeling of anonymity, as if they were sunglasses. The frames are blue-green because all the other colors were meh. It’s so nice to see the world like God put on a sharpen filter over everything. ~ Yesterday was the last official day that [...]

For Lola’s Mother’s Day

IMG_0747 Originally uploaded by Phisch I know there’s no way I can get you the real “idea” behind this until this is actually being used in situ. These are light catchers. That’s the idea anyway. We’re hoping she hangs them from a tree near her big sliding glass door. Then, they can twinkle in the [...]

Knit Cuff

2009-05-04 knit cuff Originally uploaded by Phisch I made this for a friend’s graduation with silver wire and freshwater pearls, randomly placed in the knit cuff. Okay. This is dangerously fun to make. There is instant gratification, there is the adventure of something knew and unexplored, there is pretty when it’s all said and done. [...]

Paper Crafts

Paper boomerangs A friend pointed me to this really neat resource: Canon’s Creative Park. There are tons of models on their site ranging from monuments (Eiffel Tower, Castel d’ St. Angelo) to toys like chess sets and boomerangs. All the files are in PDF format. You just have to print all the pieces, cut them [...]

2009 Resurrection Day banner

2009 Resurrection Day banner Originally uploaded by Phisch I find it interesting that the kids just naturally gravitate to the warm, bright colors that really show up against the green. Mom picks blues and greens with maybe the occasional bit of yellow. We’re prepping for the weekend…you?

Monday Madness, Musing, Miscellany…

My husband is amused with me because I am very concerned about how the butterflies we have will make it in the wild. “They’ve never experienced life on the outside, ” he teased. I was, however, concerned for a legitimate reason. I don’t think anything is supposed to touch their wings and they’ve been flapping [...]

Baby Pea Pod

Peapod Originally uploaded by Phisch I’m convinced my sister can take a much, much better photo of this thing. Jojo wasn’t the best model for this. “Don’t say that, you’ll hurt his feelings!” Karen said. “It’s ok, he can’t read,” I replied. It’s done, however! And it does happen to look like a pea pod. [...]

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