Personal Project: Dress Me

 

Sometimes when I'm inspired I get a little obsessed. Like what happened here.

This project was the same way. I had to run right out to get a variety of colored felt while I was warming up my glue gun. The first thing I needed were dolls for dressing. In this case I was inspired to use animals. Then I, ahem, designed paper patterns for the clothes.

[Yes. I did that.]

Then I went crazy with the felt my friends. Stone. Cold. Crazy.

'Girl you be rockin' that zebra print!'

'Pull the Rolls around Jeeves, I'm having drinks with the Hiltons.'

'Rah, rah, rah, for Ski-U-Mah!'

There are skirts, dresses, and winter hats. Shorts. Ties. School uniforms. Career wear. Royal robes and crowns. These well dressed animals have a beret for pity's sake. There were glasses but the thinly cut felt just didn't hold up to W's styling technique.

[Meaning rough. That was a hard moment for me. Sniff.]
 
This was one of those projects that I got way more out of than W. I mean, she likes to play with it, but she doesn't stay up three hours past her bedtime creating just one more look!

[Yes. I did that too.]

I even toyed with the idea of a Spring Collection.

Really. Too much?

ce

DIY Stamp Fun

Miss W and I had a fun time playing with these DIY stamps I made from circle stickers and wine corks. I don't do a lot with stamps and ink pads, but they definitely are a fun medium to work with. We stamped card after card with our quick homemade hearts. My stickers were a little spongy so the more we stamped the thinner they got which meant we began to see a little cork edge on our stamp images, but the cards still turned out super cute.

Are you trying something new for Valentine's?

ce

Craft With Kids: Feed the Birds

Another Pinterest find, we made cute little bird feeders with toilet paper rolls, peanut butter, wild bird seed and twine. It's been a super cold few days [and windy!!], but I braved the cold to hang these cuties in the trees at our place.

[No birds yet. Sad face.]

ce

Around Town: Museum of Visual Materials

Settled in at the MOVM.

W desperately wanted to use glitter. DESPERATELY. Next time!

Mom got in on the action too!

Yesterday the kids and I were joined by my lovely friend A to check out the Museum of Visual Materials Kids Craft Corner. We've never been so we had no idea what to expect, and when we arrived we saw no action and thought perhaps I'd read the details wrong. A, smart thing she is, suggested I ask. Turns out it wasn't the wrong day, we were just the first ones there!

They have a nice area with a music player [great feature!], a large table and two great big cabinets filled with all kinds of goodies to experiment with. Basically you show up, you craft and clean up when you're done. You can drop in anytime between 9am and 4pm Monday through Wednesday and admission is free!

The kids had a great time, and so did A and I. M worked with crayons mostly [which generally means he was eating them] while W used whatever the big kids were using, including stamps and inkpads, glue [lots and lots of glue], googley eyes, stickers, pipe cleaners and a few hearts she asked me to cut out for her. It was kind of nice that no one else was there this first time as it allowed us to really spread out. I was thinking next time I could bring materials to donate to the cause, and a person could even bring some of their own materials if you had a project in mind and still enjoy the change of scenery and additional materials and tools available that you may not have at home [or want to clean up at home, like the aforementioned glitter!].

The MOVM actually has a great Kid's Calendar including story time, day play, afterschool art activities and more. Check out the calendar here. They hold grown-up crafting classes too, check them out!

ce