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It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways that leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can trace a leaf onto paper and cut them out. I used …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways that leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can paint directly onto leaves! What to paint? Try patterns like dots …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can actually print with your leaf. In this case, I painted the leaves …
It’s fun to creatively engage with Fall leaves! Beyond marveling at their beauty or collecting them for inside adornment, there are more simple ways leaves can inspire beautiful creations. For instance, you can choose a leaf that is interesting to you, and then trace its …
This weekend I made some pamphlet books to be used as sketchbooks, journals, or secret code books. Who knows? It’s up to the user to fill the pages with whatever secrets they choose to commit to the blank page. I’m a huge fan of blank …
Walnut Dyeing! It’s been a couple years since I boiled walnuts for fun, but the green orbs were calling to me this year. About three weeks ago, I collected 15 lbs of fallen walnuts. This was easy to do because we have plenty of black …
This was a fun process to explore on this beautiful, sunny day. Artist Janelle Rae (former artist in residence at Spring Bird/current creator of the honeysuckle meditation hut featured in the blue bench meadow) recommended making hammer prints with the zinnias that we are growing. …
I love the visible mending movement and am grateful for all of the accessible tutorials from generous sewists that make mending look so easy and beautiful. I had a go at Patrick’s jeans the other day, and I think my mending looks like the Circus …
Have you ever made a necklace from seeds? Check out my video on YouTube demonstrating how I made necklaces from cantaloupe seeds.
I like decorating with hearts this time of year and really all times of the year, to be honest. I often leave ornaments, like these aluminum heart ornaments, up all year long – hanging them from windows or stick trees (sticks that I put into …