31 Photos of March

I'm a little late but here are my photos from March!

Day 1: Up
Delaney drawing in a tree

Day 2: Fruit
Peach and Radicchio Salad


Day 3: Your Neighborhood
Graffiti Walls on the Westside

Day 4: Bedside
The light switch on my side of the bed


Day 5: Smile
Brandon's Birthday surprise: Joe's Stone Crabs flown in from Miami


Day 6: 5PM
Reading in the Hammock on Vacation


Day 7: Something You Wore
Earrings that Ford picked out all by himself for my birthday

Day 8: Window
My favorite breakfast in the world at XOCO in Chicago


Day 9: Red


Day 10: Loud
Parents Cheering at Soccer Game


Day 11: Someone You Talked to Today


Day 12: Fork


Day 13: Sign
Finding signs on Ford's colorful road bingo card


Day 14: Clouds


Day 15: Car


Day 16: Sunglasses


Day 17: Green


Day 18: Corner of Your Home
Ford finds great uses for the pipes in our home


Day 19: Funny


Day 20: Before/After


Day 21: Delicious


Day 22: Kitchen Sink
Ford's favorite place to play is in my Mom's kitchen sink


Day 23: Moon


Day 24: Animal


Day 25: Breakfast


Day 26: Key
Delaney's keys


Day 27: Your Name


Day 28: Trash
Often the trash from the art is better than the art itself


Day 29: Feet


Day 30: Toy

Day 31: Where You Relax


And here is April's List:

Felted Easter Eggs

We made our first Easter project today. We found the idea in Family Fun Magazine. You need plastic eggs, felt roving in several colors, electrical tape, and panty hose. I got a package of felt roving at Michaels for less than $5 that included all the colors you see here and made all the eggs you see here.


First, we used the electrical tape to keep all our eggs closed tightly.


Then, we cut 4 inch pieces of the roving and spread the piece out so that you have a 4 inch x 4 inch square. Do this three times so that you cover each egg with 3 squares, overlapping each perpendicularly.


Then decorate with other colors. It was easiest and worked best to do lines. You can also use 100% wool yarn for this which I think would be ideal but we didn't have that on hand.




The eggs look like this and yes, they are pretty messy looking. Fit them inside the panty hose carefully so as not to disrupt up your design and tie a knot between each egg.



You will end up with a row like this.



Ford liked the rows just as they were and thought they made a great toy. Put them in the washing machine on hot and then dry them on high heat.


Carefully remove the hose from the eggs and you are finished. The heat makes the felt shrink to the eggs and here is what our finished product looked like. Overall, I think they look best when you have a lot of them together. It was a fun and cheap kids project.

Making Pages

I attended my second Visual Journaling workshop at our church today and I am loving playing in new mediums and being able to be creative in quick little spurts. I haven't been painting much lately because it takes so much time, but this is fitting my lifestyle so easily. If I have fifteen minutes or an hour, I can put something on the page. I am remembering that I need to be creative. That it is built into me and I am happiest with the rest of my life when I am creating something, anything. So here are my first several pages:








And these are a few backgrounds that I still need to add my journaling entries to:




I've been caught in my studio a few times during the kids' rest time and Delaney always wants to join in. I let her make a page with the supplies and paint I had out and here is her spread. She entitled it "Dad and Wife Birds"


Thanks Mary Freeman at A Splendid Adventure for the fun inspirations and letting us all play in your wonderful assortment of supplies.