Christmas is coming!

One little collage to get us ready for what is to come. Snow, presents, and family. Cheers!

No Cats Allowed, just sayin'

Seems every time my daughter and I take up some space on the floor, out cat comes and butts in. She lays across the paper we are drawing on, lays across the book we are reading, lays on the game we are playing... So the other day she asked if we could make a "No Cat's Allowed" sign. I made one first so we could practice tracing letters. Then Ada made her own -her way.

So, we'll keep this sign around when the kitty is in the way. It seems to work.

Ada's Creation

Since we are redoing our kitchen right now, we are looking at this pile of rubble marveling at the waste. One thing we are going to keep from our demolition is a work of art my daughter created right on one of the cabinet fronts.

She taped one of her drawings onto one of the cabinets one evening. A few weeks later, she added to it with a brown crayon and made it a permanent part of the kitchen. I just can't get rid of this cabinet front. I am thinking about framing it...

Horse Mummies, My Child's Art

Don't ask me why my girl loves tape. She makes spider webs with it. She makes sure all 4 corners of whatever new creation we hang on the walls is securely fastened, then proceeds to tape all around the perimeter. Lately the new thing is to make mummies of whatever figurines she might be interested in that week. She posed these on a pedestal for the picture herself.

Last week she painted blue polka dots all over a friend's wall while we were visiting -not to mention actually painting my friend's son in the process... we have a compulsive mark maker on our hands here...

Little Girl's Tree

Made with swirling beaded garland and berries, lots of decorations. Punctured paper, foot prints and silly valentine hearts left over from last year. We did collaborate a little, but she told me what she wanted me to draw -some of the leaves...

Such vision! I love it! LOL.

Great Stocking Stuffers

Danamarie Holser is one talented illustrator, teacher, mural painter, sculptor -the list goes on. I picked these coloring books up last summer for my daughter and I am so glad I did. Inside each one is problem solving, rhyming, and great imagery. In her shop you can find a wonderfully imaginative world of knitimals. Soaps, coloring books, games, pins, masks, plushies, lots of great gifts for kids and adults alike.

This one is from the Make Me a Knitimal ACTIVITY COLORING BOOK.

My daughter and I were exploring this one last night. To my surprise, this little guy was created. The triangle between his legs is a tail wagging. Not sure what all that other stuff is... LOL.

How We Decorate

With HANDMADE of course!

This is my daughter's preschool creation. A spider web made by laying a piece of circular paper in a pan, letting the kid glob a squirt of paint in the middle, throw in a marble, and let them tilt it around to make a spooky web! Glue on a plastic spider for the final touch. I was pleasantly surprised to find these in the decoration stash -fun paper chains that I made last year. Freehand snippets taped together. Fun to make and interesting to look at all season.
And of course, a display of gourds, pumpkins, and creepy crawly chunky rubber spiders!

A Rare Sighting, The Pickle Fickle

SO excited to see my daughter drawing away on her chalkboard the other day. First she made a drawing of a random person. Round shape with legs and an face -naturally I was thrilled! Moving along nicely in her early drawing development, I thought.


But then, to my surprise my daughter's imaginary friend, the illusive Pickle Fickle, made a surprise appearance on her chalkboard. Pickle Fickle quickly dazzled a hairdo on the other drawing. But as fast as the drawing was created, it was erased. I was delighted to get a glimpse while I could... 3 yrs. is really a magical age.