I went to the fabric store last week to get some cotton to make Clare’s BIRTHDAY NAPKINS. Just as I was about to leave I discovered they were having a “buy on meter, get two free” sale. As I was on the I-said-I’ll-just-be-fifteen-minutes-but-I’ve-been-in-here-for-twenty-five kind of time, I just went for the same print material I [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 29, 2009
Happy Birthday Clare!
Happy Birthday Clare! Here are some birthday makings. Obviously, I made these things before but I didn’t want to share them lest I ruin Clare’s surprise. At first I was at a loss for a theme for the card but then I remembered the chicken story. When we were growing up, there was a year [...]
July 27, 2009
Tea and roses at Chebucto Head.
Afternoon tea and roses at Chebucto Head!
We are feeling pretty proud of ourselves! The day was very gray and moist with no promise of improvement, but we decided to head out and “do something” anyway and were rewarded with with a big piece of SUN! All in all a lovely afternoon outing.
July 24, 2009
Rain and the love of shiny things.
Rain today! We painted while listening to some rain soundtracks. Didn’t need much imagination for this today! Then we made rain sticks and created our our rain sound scape. I love how the rain sticks looked lined up side by side.
As it was our last day we were really busy finishing things and getting ready [...]
July 23, 2009
On waking in the forest.
This week I reinterpreted the contact paper group project to work with our nature theme. (love the contact paper) We went into the gallery and saw a painting by Will Gorlitz. (please excuse poor photo of postcard, but you get the gist)
After a bit of bending over sideways and upside-down we theorized that the painting [...]
July 22, 2009
Past halfway!
I’m more than halfway through my Naturally Creative class and I’ve a few more things to share. The first being that this week was not as wonderful as the last….. every group of kids is different, and this one has a few challenges. Some of it could be me too! But I am trying to [...]
July 20, 2009
From the ocean
My first day of Naturally Creative, another summer art camp with kids 3 – 5. Today we focused on the ocean.
Love this one. It’s a shark with small fish swimming around it and many small fish in its tummy. The tissue paper takes away from the drawing a bit, but it’s still a good one.
We [...]
July 19, 2009
Weekend of beautiful things.
Some beautiful things spotted on our weekend in the Annapolis Valley.
Queen Anne’s Lace. What a lovely and evocative name.
This green never ceases to amaze me. Greener than green.
Then to market! We ran out of money or we would have bought one of these lovely bunches of garlic. I hope we can find some again as [...]
July 16, 2009
The freezer arrives!
We are very excited about our new freezer which finally arrived today! In an attempt to continue local eating into the winter we want to freeze fruit and veg bounty to fill in the gaps in the colder months. While I was at the library gathering books for my class next week, I borrowed a [...]
July 15, 2009
A language of lines
I wanted to write about maps. To write about the language of lines – the literacy skills I practiced while in Devon on our honeymoon. There is something splendid about finding your way on a map, carefully navigating along the lines of a wall, or track, or path. It is not straight country over there [...]
