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)

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. 

Preschool Artists

The art studio, known as the Atelier, at my kids' preschool (Peachtree Presbyterian Preschool) is simply amazing. I have volunteered in there a few times this year and I am always in awe of the beauty of the place. The supplies are displayed in a way that every ingredient in the place makes you want to make something. It is an artist's fantasy land with limitless possibilities. It is a place that makes me want to play and create and dream. It is the kind of place that I am thrilled my children have had access to over the past couple of years. All art studios, for young and for old, should be this light filled, this organized, this well stocked, and this inspiring. 

I took so many photos. Everywhere I looked, there sat the perfect little vignette of beauty.

This time I was there to help the kids work on a painting for an auction night. We did a "surprise painting". The kids painted a layer of color using all kinds of different strokes and marks. We dried the canvas quickly with a hair dryer. We then put pieces of masking tape over our favorite parts. Then we painted another layer, dried it, taped a few pieces, etc. We continued the process for five layers. Once the painting was completely dry, we began to remove the tape and had all kinds of layered surprises!

It was exciting to see their faces as they began to pull the tape off. Here is the final product.