It's REALLY DANGEROUS!!!
Perhaps I should not share their secrets. No eye of newt here, but some green food coloring, cornstarch, bleeding hearts, and plastic beads make for one nasty concoction.
watch out!
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
What we're making: Simple Animal Masks
these kids can make a million different things with some printer paper and a scissors.
Monday, March 11, 2013
What We're Making: The Daily News
We don't get a paper-paper around here these days, so I'm not sure what Clio's inspiration was.
She created a daily newspaper using her silly sentences board, then had me make copies.
She tied them up and put them in a "newsbag" and delivered them to me, Dave, and my parents when we met them for lunch. She insisted they each get their own.
One way or another, this kid is shaping up to be a writer.
She created a daily newspaper using her silly sentences board, then had me make copies.
She tied them up and put them in a "newsbag" and delivered them to me, Dave, and my parents when we met them for lunch. She insisted they each get their own.
One way or another, this kid is shaping up to be a writer.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
What We're Making: Pirate Ship
These girls see no end to the possibilities in a cardboard box, and can often be heard begging for them at my parents' house.
I love that this is a ship with a proper mast and a sail made from upholstery batting (scavengers!), and that the ropes are made from gingham ribbon, but I ESPECIALLY love Clio's take on a skull and cross bones flag.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
The valentine that wasn't
If you know us well, it should be no surprise that instead of a Christmas card we do a Valentine's card. Yes, we like that valentines are sweet, and different, and that a card in February stands out from the December pack.
But let's be honest: we also just kinda can't get it together to do one more thing at the end of the year. I do an entire BOOK, after all.
This year, we didn't even get it together to do a card in February. While I am a little sad that we did not reach out to friends and family with a little token, and while I am sad that we will have a hole in the chronicles of annual family cards, it is also the kind of thing that once the time is past, you kind of just let go.
Dave and the girls did have this cute idea for a card. the execution lacked a little and the timing? Well, I believe they took these pictures on February 14th.
Too little, too late.
But cute, no? (In case it is not totally clear, they are making a heart with their negative space. Obvs.)
Some of our past cards are posted on the blog, like 2011 and, well. Just 2011!
But let's be honest: we also just kinda can't get it together to do one more thing at the end of the year. I do an entire BOOK, after all.
This year, we didn't even get it together to do a card in February. While I am a little sad that we did not reach out to friends and family with a little token, and while I am sad that we will have a hole in the chronicles of annual family cards, it is also the kind of thing that once the time is past, you kind of just let go.
Dave and the girls did have this cute idea for a card. the execution lacked a little and the timing? Well, I believe they took these pictures on February 14th.
Too little, too late.
But cute, no? (In case it is not totally clear, they are making a heart with their negative space. Obvs.)
Some of our past cards are posted on the blog, like 2011 and, well. Just 2011!
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
What we're making
So, some time back, I had this idea of what to do with this here blog. Obviously, I haven't been posting. It's partly a time thing, and an energy thing, and an I-post-almost-daily-on-another-blog thing. But it is also a question of what this blog is for, something I have struggled with since moving closer to family. For the past two years, it has functioned much less as a report on our whereabouts and doings, because, well, the people most interested in those things probably already knew where we were and what we did. I think there is also an aspect of age/life stage to it. Dave's mom kept notes as he grew: many the first month, lots the first year, and slowly diminishing until he was about six, and then the baby book is done. Perhaps this has to do with reaching school age? They are with us less/ need us differently? Or perhaps there is less that we feel comfortable taking public as they grow?
At the same time, the piles of paper in this house are majorly out of control. And these kids make some majorly awesome projects. Many of them totally independent of any grown up. And so the idea was born to photograph them and record them here, with the dual purpose of getting them out of the house and creating a permanent record.
I rounded up a bunch of recent work and took pictures. Clio even modeled some of the projects. (I know.) And then....life got busy. And almost every day I think to myself, I should put that popsicle stick house/ wax sculpture/ nailed sign/ watercolor-paper 3D tent on the blog.
Yesterday Clio made a drawing out of a face using pencil shavings for the eyes. This kind of ingenious re-use is just so her, and so I finally finally snapped a picture, and am posting it here.
The battery on my phone is so low the camera couldn't use flash. But this is good: let me manage expectations. These are not going to be perfectly lit glamour shots that belong on pinterest. Just a record of what we're making, the great ideas these girls have, more than the execution (though that has its spectacular moments, too). So now you know the deal. Some of the stuff I share here might be worth trying at home, but most of it you might just marvel at and move on.
Good? Good.
At the same time, the piles of paper in this house are majorly out of control. And these kids make some majorly awesome projects. Many of them totally independent of any grown up. And so the idea was born to photograph them and record them here, with the dual purpose of getting them out of the house and creating a permanent record.
I rounded up a bunch of recent work and took pictures. Clio even modeled some of the projects. (I know.) And then....life got busy. And almost every day I think to myself, I should put that popsicle stick house/ wax sculpture/ nailed sign/ watercolor-paper 3D tent on the blog.
Yesterday Clio made a drawing out of a face using pencil shavings for the eyes. This kind of ingenious re-use is just so her, and so I finally finally snapped a picture, and am posting it here.
The battery on my phone is so low the camera couldn't use flash. But this is good: let me manage expectations. These are not going to be perfectly lit glamour shots that belong on pinterest. Just a record of what we're making, the great ideas these girls have, more than the execution (though that has its spectacular moments, too). So now you know the deal. Some of the stuff I share here might be worth trying at home, but most of it you might just marvel at and move on.
Good? Good.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
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