Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts

Saturday

Watercolor Autumn Garland




Is there nothing you CAN'T make beautiful with liquid watercolors? We've used them to dye macaroni, as the color base for bathtub puffy paint and as part of our watercolor and batik on paper experiment but my favorite media to drip the saturated color on has to be coffee filters.

I love watching Claire concentrate with her tongue poking out of pursed lips (so like her father) as she watches the colors run together trying to create the perfect shade of "turk-a-boys." That's turquoise for those of you not schooled in Claire-speak.

We've got a giant tree filled with round colorful leaves and I persuaded Claire to donate a few of her creations for a little autumn garland for the mantle. This is inspired by Rebecca Cooper's St. Patrick's Garland which I've been drooling over for the past few months. I just adored her use of book pages as background and found quite a few to tear apart upon unpacking in our new house (who knew my old computer science texts would be irrelevant just a few short years after college).

Pack of 6 Liquid Watercolors for $12.98

If you're looking for an affordable set of liquid watercolors, check these out, a pack of 6 for about $13 has lasted us well over a year. They're super saturated and can be diluted to make them stretch. I also love the ones from Discount School Supply. 

Happy Painting!








Monday

Falling For Autumn

Well hello friends! Excuse my long absence, I'm back in the swing of things and eager to reconnect with all my bloggy-land friends!

New House, New Pets! Meet Claire and Claire the Chicken.

We're happily settling into our new home and after a few weeks (months!) of craziness, I've got quite a back log of exciting crafts and activities to share.

I must first say thank you to all the well-wishing friends who sent emails checking up on us after I took a long break from blogging. Things have been hectic but VERY exciting and I cannot say how much I appreciate folks from around the world (um...wow!) reaching out to me.

Home. Sweet. Home.


Tonight we celebrated Daddy-O's birthday (Daddy-o Scare-io and Mommy-O Scare-io are our nicknames given by Claire this summer -- and no I have no clue where they came from). Dan's birthday signals the end of summer for us, so in the next week we'll be celebrating autumn with seasonal crafts starting tomorrow with a little leaf project!

Lanceovate and Obovate are my favorite names!

I have a few favorite projects from the archives if you're itching for some "right now!" inspiration:

Leaf Rubbing Collage


Coffee Filter and watercolor leaves on chalkboard

Freaky Halloween Hand Meatloaf