Wordless Wednesday - The Eyes Have It

Some new artwork from James....




















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A Tip For Tuesday

Some easy-peasy diy gifts for the hopelessly uncrafty:


Flat-iron holder made out of a potholder.














Tote bags made out of old t-shirts.















Custom t-shirts drawn with a bleach pen.




















I am really short on time right now, so can't list the instructions. But they're all on my Pinterest boards, so just click the button on my sidebar that says 'Follow Me On Pinterest'and it'll take you right there. Otherwise, bear with me and I'll get them to you later this week.

I've made some of the totes from t-shirts. Also made some scarves. I'll see if I can put those up later. Real cute. Very simple, and they're no-sew, so how awesome is that?



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Wordless Wednesday

My Jamesy painted this!
























Now why don't you paint me right into the top 10 by clicking this button.




Omg, I see you actually paid attention to my little tagged-on PS in yesterday's post; I have 3 more followers. Thanks my 3 amigos! Who's next? Come on, don't be shy. Take the plunge and add yourself as a follower. It won't hurt a bit.

Wordless Wednesday

We had fun painting (and building) some fall things over the weekend.

Rosie painted the white pumpkin;
I painted the owls (on a piece of scrap wood),the pumpkin (on a slate), and the spooky forest/moon (on scrap wood);
Bella colored the flower;
James made the spider and the creepy clown thingy;
And Julie painted the pumpkin.

Yay fall!


























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And this one, too, if you don't mind. I would love to make it to the top 25. With a late entry and only a couple weeks to vote, it's gonna be tough. But hey, it's possible, right????

Wordless Wednesday

This is something James drew for me a year or so ago.

I thought it was pretty.




















Stop to smell the roses.
Stop to click the button.

Wordless Wednesday

One of Bella's adorable drawings. She loves goats
could you tell?

and in fact has one of her own. Her goat is Ozzy, the little black twin brother of Houdini.















Hush now, don't say a word. Just click the button....

Wordless Wednesday

As we seem to be mired in a stretch of sunless monsoon weather for the better part of a week, I thought Wordless Wednesday could be used to inject a little sunshine into our lives.

This is a picture Rosie drew, but her Bad Mother never wrote the date on it so I have no idea whether she drew it five years ago or last Tuesday.





The cost for all that sunshine? Just a click of the button. A bargain at any price!

Wordless Wednesday

Here's an old drawing of mine that I dug out of a sketch book dating back to a time of big, crimped hair and equally large belts positioned just slightly beneath our boobs. Anyone remember? Oh yeah .....






Not asking you to draw anything. Just move your mouse till your cursor is positioned over the button and .... click! Ta-da!

Wordless Wednesday

From here on in I will be cheating.

But just on Wednesdays.

I've seen where some other bloggers do a Wordless Wednesday thing, and I've decided to follow suit.

So my Weds posts from now on will simply feature a picture of some sort.

Perhaps artwork of one of my kids.

Perhaps some old artwork of mine.

Maybe even a photo I like.

But enough talk. This is turning into a pretty wordy Wordless Weds.




Self-portrait of Daniel, circa 2007 (age 7)





Don't speak. Just click.