April 6th, 2011 - E

For this challenge I am using up some of my large paper and card supply and making and laminating a 5 x 5" card each day. 

April 5th, 2011 - D

For this challenge I am using up some of my large paper and card supply and making and laminating a 5 x 5" card each day. 

Sunday Scribblings - April 3rd 2011

The prompt for Sunday Scribblings this week: messenger. 


A tale of two small girls 


Parents and other adults are very important messengers in life. What messages do you send to your children and/or other people's children? What messages do you want to send? 


A few years ago I was at the art gallery with my daughters, participating in an art activity. My children were happy cutting and pasting and I took a little time to watch two small girls there with their families. I can't remember now the exact task but it involved drawing shells on paper and then cutting and pasting tissue paper on to the drawings. 


One girl was cutting tissue paper and gluing it with the support of her parents. What a fabulous creation she made. Her little face was beaming with pride. Her work of art did not look at all like the examples provided but she was visibly happy with what she had done. 


The second girl came with lots of ideas which seemed ready to burst on to the paper. As her mum urged her to think first I could see her losing interest. She was obviously starting to worry about doing it right. She drew a spiral on the paper. Then the mum urged her to do the next one bigger so it would be easier to cut the tissue paper. The girl started looking away. Not interested any more, she was worrying about getting it right. Her initial enthusiasm was gone. She left with a work of art very similar to the example provided. I don't think she liked it very much. 


I wonder how those two girls are a few years on. I wonder what other messages they have been sent by the adults in their lives. 


I hope I send the messages that being creative is a good thing, that it is good to try out your own ideas and it is okay to make mistakes. Messages I remind myself of daily. 

April 4th, 2011 - C

For this challenge I am using up some of my large paper and card supply and making and laminating a 5 x 5" card each day. 

Six Word Saturday - April 2nd, 2011

WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SNAKE

I love opportunities to be creative. 

Brianna and I went to the Willunga Waldorf school Autumn fair with some friends today. One of the fun things we did was to create a creature out of gumnuts, sticks etc and beeswax. 

I helped Brianna to make the cat creature and Brianna's friend made the starfish one. I dropped it shortly after this photo was taken and it fell apart. The process of making it was very enjoyable and maybe I will put it back together again. 

Now those photographs of the snake. 

Brianna doesn't like the opportunity to hold a snake pass her by. So when she saw there was a snake that could be held she was keen. 

April 2nd, 2011 - B

For this challenge I am using up some of my large paper and card supply and making and laminating a 5 x 5" card each day. 

April 1st, 2011 - A

For this challenge I am using up some of my large paper and card supply and making and laminating a 5 x 5" card each day. 

Another daily challenge starting tomorrow

Every day I post a small piece of writing at my other blog, Pausing to pick up small stones. During April I am planning to participate in another daily challenge. The A to Z Blogging Challenge! It involves posting something each day in April (except Sundays) with each post dedicated to a letter of the alphabet starting with A and ending with Z. 
I have decided that I will make an alphabet card each day and post photos here. So at the end of April I hope to have a beautiful set of alphabet cards. I am still deciding what size they will be. I think I will do a capital letter on one side and a lower case letter on the other. It should be a wonderful way to use some of the many beautiful papers I have collected over the years as well as give me a good reason to play with colours and shapes each day. I also look forward to seeing other people's approach to the challenge. There are a huge number of people signed up to participate (over 700 when I last checked). Click on the badge above for more information. 

Three Word Wednesday - March 30th 2011

Three Word Wednesday time again. I didn't think I would play this week and then more words came to join the three (loud, persuasive, riches) for this week. Here they are: 


Life can be packed full of riches 
Maybe not of the monetary kind 
Words persuasive need not be loud 
Whisper listen - what will you find?  

Sunday Scribblings - March 27th 2011

The prompt this week for Sunday Scribblings: nearly. 


After the phone call 


Nearly, she sighed, clearly wasn't enough 
Application and interview both really tough 
And now here she cried 
Feeling glad she had tried 
Yet really quite right out of puff