...which cup has the water, and which has the coffee.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
Dress up French Toast Girl!
Ancient history, people…. who remembers this?
http://frenchtoastgirl.com/flash/index.htm
And it still works!
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
Sacrifice and creativity
It's the first day of Lent today, Ash Wednesday. So to prepare, we made some Sacrifice Beads (also called Good Deed Beads) to help act as reminders to help others. Because this was sort of spur of the moment, we used what beads we had on hand - in a few cases, a fish or a heart stood in for the cross. Either way, when you do a good deed as an offering, you move a bead towards one end as an act of love.
Directions to make your own: http://thelittleways.com/how-to-make-sacrifice-beads. I promise it's not hard at all, and children can make them with just a little help and supervision.
Friday, February 14, 2014
happy happy valentine's day!
Another year, another valentine. Are they getting big or what?!
And now let's have a trip in the wayback machine!
(2013)
(2012)
(2011)
(2010)
(2009)
(2008)
(2007)
(2006)
(2005)
And now let's have a trip in the wayback machine!
(2013)
(2012)
(2011)
(2010)
(2009)
(2008)
(2007)
(2006)
(2005)
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Ponies, cycles, baseball.
Much progress since last post. Sadly, gastroenteritis kicked my butt a week ago, so progress hasn't been as swift as I'd like. BUT! Here are more WIPs.... um.... in progress. (I've been posting more snaps of these along the way to my FB page as well.)
My homegirl Twilight Sparkle, though I preferred her in non-princess, all-geek mode.
TRON lightcycle is coming along nicely. In this case more water = more metallic and fluid, probably owing to the fact that water is a liquid... moving on.....
Matt Kemp of the Dodgers, who I only know about because of my nephew's request. He will either be the hardest, or the easiest to paint. We shall see.
Being sketched and painted next: Spongebob characters, Steve from Minecraft, and bacteria. Because this is Christmas and all the kids get to choose what they want a painting of. Who am I to judge?
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Sketchy
The holiday paintings have begun! I am trying the crazy/ambitious idea of painting four at the same time; then I can move on to the next batch. First up for today: light cycle and rider from Tron Legacy, and Princess Twilight Sparkle. I don't care if she has wings and is a princess and all that. She'll always be my favorite Pony.
Reflections aplenty, limited palette. I still think there's one coming up that's going to be more challenging......
(Note for next year: how about everyone gets ponies, huh? Isn't that a great idea? Right? Anyone?)
Friday, November 08, 2013
Details.
Close to being done. I kind of want to go all over the tree one with fine white outline detail. Or should I leave it alone? As always, click to embiggen.
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Trees and rocks. And purple cats.
More works in progress. I actually really like working on two paintings at once, it gives each a chance to dry and set a bit, and lets me come up with more ideas.
As always, click to enlarge, bc blogger is a resizing fool and I hate it. But not enough to resize and upload everything by hand.
Monday, November 04, 2013
Sunday, November 03, 2013
One stitch at a time.
I made this stuff. And gave it all away. :)
Octopus friends for babies and older siblings, hats and shoes for newborns.
Friday, August 02, 2013
Walking to Mordor
(Our dishwasher, courtesy of Angela. I did not put her up to this, I swear.)
I've been trying to concentrate lately on the sound mind in a sound body theory, with the realization that the sound body really needs to get up and bust a move more often. It's good for stress relief, and honestly, it's maintenance - I plan on being around a long time and my body needs to be able to support all the crazy things I'll probably come up with. So to that end, I completed Jillian Michael's 30-Day Shred with awesome results, I'm going to start her Ripped in 30 series, and in between I'll be taking a small break for daily yoga. And walking. Lots of walking. But how to measure this in a tangible way and get my whole geeky family involved?
We're walking to Mordor.
Using a pedometer and other counters (on treadmill and Gazelle) we're keeping a running tally of all our collective mileage. Here's a breakdown in minute, geek-tastic detail, a spreadsheet that keeps a running total for you, and we're also marking up a map to show our progress. Peter remarked, "But MOM! It's going to take us more than a year!" To which we could point out that Frodo and his companions took at least that long, too. It's a way to show slow but steady progress, to provide a little incentive, and to get deeper into a wonderful story on a very real level.
Oh, and because it's wonderfully nerdy and awesome, too.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
Wild kingdom
What we saw on our walk at our favorite park last evening. Click to read the whole list, including the bit about "the cutest leetle wings". I love it.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Every day in May: twenty-eight
Day 28: drawn in crayon on the placemat at Jimmy's Pizza. Angela realized halfway there that a caterpillar was crawling on her arm and had come along for the ride. As soon as we got to Jimmy's, she ran through the rain to find him a leaf.
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Every day in May: twenty-six
How to draw Trogdor (according to Strong Bad)
- Draw an S.
- Draw a more different S.
- Close it up real good at the top for his head.
- Using consummate V's, give him teeth, spinities, and angry eyebrows.
- You can add smoke or fire.
- And maybe add some wings, you know, if he's a wing-a-ling dragon.
- Put one of those beefy arms back on him for good measure.
- Name him TROGDOR the BURNiNATOR.
- Add majestic lines... for majesty.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Every day in May: twenty-three
Giving myself a much much MUCH needed break today. Please enjoy the awesome Angela on my fridge.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Every day in May: twenty-one
Doodle of some lovely recital flowers. For those of you playing along at home and drawing each day in May, we have 10 days left!
Every day in May: twenty
(Posted on FB but not the blog.... Apologies!)
This is was my hair yesterday.... The humidity turned it into a mix of Diana Ross with a healthy touch of Fraggle. Ignore the evil eyes.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Every day in May: eighteen
Originally the beginning of sketches from Peter's ball game this morning, but rain and drawing on the iPad don't mix (too slippery). I kept the colors and turned it into the start of EDiM challenge "Draw your left hand."
Friday, May 17, 2013
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