Archive for watercolor

At Cami’s new school she doesn’t really have homework. The most that she’s been sent home with is “research” on her family tree (names of grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.). Sometimes she picks out a fun book at school and we read it, which really lifts…

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Noah is turning four this week… FOUR! I can’t believe my little guy is getting so big. In honor of his birthday we are doing a little pool party for Noah. I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned before, but Noah has quite a love of…

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Camille has been invited to several birthday parties this month. Though I adore celebrating, there is that little thing, the card and wrapping paper. I really love wrapping a gift, but not the cost or even waste behind birthday cards and wrapping paper. We really…

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I couple weeks ago I found some super cute washi tape on etsy and I knew I could put it to good use. Cami & I have made watercolor envelopes before, but today we made little ones that she can store tiny notes in. They…

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While decorating the house this year, one of Chris and my favorite things to do is unwrap and look at old picture ornaments when we were kids. Remembering, plays a lot in holiday traditions. This year, Chris told me he wanted to have picture ornaments…

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At Cami’s beach rainbow party, I gave her this box. It was really quite simple to make using a wood burning tool, a box that you can pick up from your local craft store, watercolors and beeswax polish. I sketched out the design, burned it…

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With furniture in place & some pictures on the walls, I am now looking through the rooms in the house to see what needs to be added to give each room warmth. The type of warmth that will invite you to hang in that room…

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With summer in full swing, we’ve been working on adding bits of celebration to our seasonal stand this past week. One addition to the table were summer strawberries. Here is what we used: • Wooden robin eggs • Red watercolor and brushes • Green wool…

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We made these this weekend. I was a little intimidated by all the folds at first but I found a wonderful tutorial here, which gives great step-by-step instructions. I love the glow that lanterns produce. I’ve read and tried with watercolors to coat the page…

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As we’ve been unpacking and filling our house I’ve been thinking through what to put in every room. I decided about a week or so ago that I wanted to put little signs with the kids initials on the door. After searching around and looking…

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