Today was a super fun day. I made a bunch of projects for my art camp tomorrow. The little alien pipe cleaner dude is from a project I made 13 years ago for a summer camp at my school. The kids loved it. I saw an old camper today who is now in COLLEGE, oh my god, and the idea came back to me in a flash. The two dogs are Billy (our sweet dog) and Deuces (my arch nemesis). In the middle is a nest with birdies that just hatched in our backyard.
This is a wind chime I saw on First Palette a while back. I embellished it a bit by covering cardstock in tin foil and then adding tissue paper for the main part. I used pipe cleaners instead of string for one of the wind chimes I made, creating a cool octopus type look.
Then Brigitte, my fabulous co-teacher, gave me some leftover lids that were headed for the trash. I covered those in tin foil as well, got out the puffy paint, and voila! Awesome refrigerator magnets. So much fun!
Your blog made me smile and smile. I love the projects you are showing, and so fun and full of color and joy. Thank you for all the great ideas you are sharing, and your photos are so inspiring!
I’d like to tell your readers about my 25th Anniversary of writing art books for kids. I hope this is okay with you. they can visit my website or my blog to see what it’s all about. It’s a huge discounted sale of all my books.
http://www.brightring.com/Books.html My website has PayPal set up.
http://maryannfkohl.typepad.com/blog/ My blog suggests checks.
Thank you Meri Cherry!
MaryAnn Kohl
Wow! Thank you MaryAnn! I feel like I just got Michael Jackson’s autograph. I love your books!!! Your creativity is a total inspiration. Thank you!