Friday, May 11, 2012

Paris Painting Party


For Delaney's 5th Birthday, we had a Paris Party. She has followed along in my love for the Eiffel Tower and loves all things Parisian. We enjoyed the perfect weather and celebrated with a few of her friends on our roof. The girls did paintings of the Eiffel Tower and enjoyed cupcakes and pink lemonade.



I purchased the berets off amazon.com and used puffy paint to add the Eiffel Tower. For the smocks, my mom stalked the thrift stores for boys shirts and we stamped the Eiffel Tower on each one. The goody bags are from Old Navy for $1 each and were perfect to take home the paintings, smocks, berets, and Eiffel Tower juice cups.





Thursday, May 10, 2012

30 Photos of April

Day 1: Your Reflection 
Road Tripping through Charleston


Day 2: Colour
Delaney thought yellow stripes would look better than white ones


Day 3: Mail
Birchbox is such a fun treat every month


Day 4: Someone Who Makes You Happy


Day 5: Tiny
Paintings on Seashells


Day 6: Lunch


Day 7: Shadow
iPad sketching in the shadow of a tree


Day 8: Inside Your Wallet


Day 9: Younger You
The Cousins with MomP


Day 10: Cold


Day 11: Where You Ate Breakfast


Day 12: Stairs


Day 13: Something You Found
A Lovely Assemblage by Delaney


Day 14: How You Feel Today


Day 15: Sunset
Along Hwy 98: Florida


Day 16: Flower


Day 17: Something You Don't Like
Giving Up Coke Zero because it's Bad For Me


Day 18: Hair
Still Purple

Day 19: Orange


Day 20: Something You Drew
Date Night with Ford


Day 21: Bottle


Day 22: The Last Thing You Bought


Day 23: Vegetable
 A Recipe to Make Soon



Day 24: Something You're Grateful For
Celebrating 10 Years this week with Brandon


Day 25: Looking Down
Ford Loves the Hulk Footprints at Target right now


Day 26: Black & White


Day 27: Somewhere You Went
Paint-a-Pot with Brandon (we did this on our first date ever and still love it)


Day 28: 1pm
Inventing New Chairs



Day 29: Circle
Staceage: Westside


Day 30: Something That Makes You Sad
Preschool Ending (on to real school)



Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Frames for A Dollar

I helped Ford's class make gifts for Mother's Day. Michaels has these unfinished wooden frames for $1. The uses are limitless. I had the kids paint their frames however they wanted.



 I took photos of each child. I printed them in black and white because I love the contrast with the kids bold colorful strokes.



I loved the way all these looked together. I want to do a wall collage in my house in a similar manner....let the kids paint all the frames and use only black and white photography in them. Wouldn't that be stunning!! Maybe I'll get around to that someday.