Dragon Coloring Page

One of my kids asked me to draw them a coloring page of two dragons fighting.  Here’s the result.  I’ll try to post some more coloring pages, as this is a regular thing for them.

Ink Blot Monsters

I ran across Stefan G Bucher’s Daily Monster videos on YouTube via a post on BoingBoing. The girls and I were facinated by this and watched about a dozen of the videos. Clearly we were going to have to try this.

So the next day we got a bottle of ink and made some inkblots. See [...]

Bubble Jet Set & Hot Crystals

I’ve been experimenting with a bottle of Bubblejet Set 2000 I bought some time back. Its a liquid in which you soak a piece of fabric and let it dry (I used a good quality muslin for the images below). Then you iron it to freezer paper and cut it to standard paper size. The [...]

Carving Tagua Nuts

Well, I have to admit that I’ve only recently started this hobby. I’ve done some wood carving and enjoyed it, but I think I may have just found my medium. Read on about tagua nuts..

I saw these advertised in the WoodCraft catalog that my husband gets. They are touted as “vegetable ivory”. I bought a few [...]

Undersea Embroidery

I started this project by spending about a week studying and making sketches from photographs of tropical fish and other creatures. I then made a loose sketch of the overall design. I started with a piece of royal blue medium weight canvas fabric (not embroidery canvas) and spent about 4 hours bleaching and overdyeing it [...]