Some Recent Creations

This spring and summer I made a few quiet book pages to add to my niece's book.

First I did an eensy weensy spider page...

The spider and raindrops slide up and down the drain and the cloud folds down to reveal a sun.

Next I made a sock matching/laundry basket page...

The socks attach with velcro.

And finally, a woodlandish creature page

Each creature's home flips around (on magnets sewn into the felt) to "hide" the animal.

This was my favorite one to do :)

As summer approached, I started noticing painted rocks on Pinterest.

I thought it looked like a fun activity to do with the kids while they were out of school.

I gathered supplies and started experimenting.

 These were my first few attempts...

As I kept looking around on Pinterest I saw many examples of this type of art (dotilism) done on canvas.  These are mini canvases...canvi...I should have put my hand in the picture to compare size.

I think they are3-5 inches square.

I had a lot of fun with this and the kids each joined me temporarily...Matt the most...but none of them enjoyed it as much as I did.

This eventually led to the vision and creation of my Christmas ornament for the year.

I have never had my ornaments done before Fall...it's rather a good feeling :)

I will share them with you later.

Three years ago I gave Abby a bunch of fox flannel to make a quilt.

It took us a while but we finally finished it!

I taught her how to cut out the blocks and she did almost all of the sewing as well.

I went ahead and quilted and bound it.

This is the back

We are both very happy to have it finished and on her bed to cuddle up with!