100 Ways To Be Creative: Scratch Art

100 Ways To Be Creative: Scratch Art

#96 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list was to make your own sketch design, aka scratch art. You know those black sheets, that when you scratch them with a coin or toothpick, colors pop up? It's that. Here is the end result:   The first step is to just cover paper in...

100 Ways To Be Creative: Recreate A Photo

100 Ways To Be Creative: Recreate A Photo

#37 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list was to recreate a photograph that you think is beautiful. I've always loved this photo of someone's feet covered in glitter. So opened a bottle of gold flakes I've been saving for months and months and dumped them all over my...

Wednesdays Are Good Lately

Wednesdays Are Good Lately

There are things that I like about every day of the week. I like Thursday nights because it feels like a Friday night always, even though I still have to be at work at the same time. It's a freeing feeling. I don't really know why. I like Saturdays because I neither...

Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

  I want to share some of the happy things that have happened to me in the past week [8/8-8/14]  beautifully painted walls of Poncho & Pepe's  how the rainbow flowers looked pretty, even dead honoring Nannie with purple sidewalk chalk hearts  the cubbies with...

DIY Mixed Media Art for the Non-Collage Artist

DIY Mixed Media Art for the Non-Collage Artist

 My first guest post! From Michelle from The Reshaping Of Everyday Life and Busy Weekends. There are a lot of people in this world, myself included, who can't collage. We try. You try to tell us that anyone can do it because in your mind it's just sticking a bunch of...

100 Ways To Be Creative: Sidewalk Chalk

100 Ways To Be Creative: Sidewalk Chalk

#88 on my 100 Ways To Be Creative list was to make a mural or scene with sidewalk chalk.   I have drawn with sidewalk chalk many times before and this will absolutely not be the last time, but I wanted to complete this task with my list in mind. Yesterday I drew an...

Weekly Happiness

Weekly Happiness

My happiness post wasn't up when I went to work this morning, but that doesn't make it any less happy! Speaking of happy.. make sure you participate in the HappyThon.Here are things that have made me happy this past week (since August started)... Wiggle Your Toes Day...

Blackout Poem

Blackout Poem

One of my goals for 2012 was to make a blackout poem.A blackout poem is basically when you take pre-printed text from a book or newspaper and you scratch out all of the words you don't want with a black marker. What you're left with is what you want to say, a poem of...