Art Night

First art night with Sloan.

Second art night with Sloan.

You can click on the above drawings to see all the detail. I've tried art night with Sloan in the past & it's kind of a hit or miss thing. She recently asked if we could start drawing together again. I haven't been feeling very well lately so it's been fun to work on art with my girl. She motivates me & I think I do the same for her. She gets a little frustrated sometimes when she doesn't get things just right. I explain that it takes years, YEARS, to sometimes have art look the way you want it to. Even then you still will make mistakes. I also also emphasize there really are no mistakes in art, only happy accidents :)

I chose to give her the little Van Gogh book I bought at a thrift store. It's vintage and has that dusty old smell (I love that smell). I feel that Van Gogh is a pretty easy artist to understand. The movement & emotion of his paintings span the generations. You & I as adults might read a deeper meaning from his work, but children understand a certain level of emotion from his works also. Sloan was very fascinated with the story of the artist chopping off his ear. I explained his life in age appropriate terms. Didn't feel she needed to know about the prostitutes & drug use. She loves his use of color and all the different brush strokes in his paintings. I would have to agree with her.

So from time to time I will be posting our art night sessions. If any of you do this with your kids, please let me know. It would be so much fun to link back to your art nights too :) Happy weekend everyone!

Newest Card

I finished up Novembers card for

Simply Sweet Marriage

You can download it now for free!

(Card is made with various scrapbook paper & embroidery thread)

Halloween Night

Remember this darling Halloween feast over at

Sweet B Folkart?

I won this little guy! How cute is he? I tried to take some pictures of him myself but Amelia's photos did it the justice it deserves. Thank you so much for this darling Halloween treat. It will be treasured for years to come.

Here they are! Sloan was a fairy, Abby was a witch (friendly of course) Aris was a ladybug, & Zoe was Princess Jasmin.

This is the third year we have gone trick-or-treating with Abby & her mom. It's sort of our Halloween tradition if you will. Something we look forward to. The girls got a ton of candy and had fun in the process.

Zoe got into the Halloween spirit this year & Aris really understood the concept of receiving candy. She even said trick-or-treat & thank you. It was pretty adorable.

She was a little apprehensive about running right up to the doors. She watched to make sure the girls were not scared & then made her way up to the door. This was pretty much the scene at every door.

This poor guy got a little lost last night! Maybe Mars was out of candy bars? Lol! Okay so it's a lame joke. We all got a kick out of him & had to pose for some pictures.

We had such a fun Halloween. Hope you all had a great time too!

Happy Birthday Zoe!

So hard to believe she is one year older! Time flies when you have more than one little one to keep up with. I seriously feel like the days are zooming past too quickly. Sometimes I just wish they could slow down, just a bit. Today we all went to the pumpkin patch & got our pumpkins for carving. Then we took the girls to a lovely little park near the river. It was a day filled with special family time. Just what Zoe requested. Tomorrow we will have her birthday dinner and I am making a yummy Scotch Chocolate cake. It's an old family favorite. Of course she will get to open her gifts & then blow out the candles. I just found out tonight that Zoe shares her birthday with not only her uncle Isaac, but a few of my cousins too. Kind of a fun little fact. Hope you all had a great weekend.

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Lots of Work

Found via flicker (Halloween in the time of cholera)

I figured I'd drop a quick little hello & share the above photo. How creepy & cool is that? Love these old Halloween photos of kids in costumes. There is something so haunting about the masks. Masks are super weird to me. Since the eyes are the window to the soul it bothers me when I am unable to see them. Gives me kind of an uneasy feeling. For some reason I'm super hooked on these old images. You can find old Halloween photos for sale on ebay but be forewarned they are a bit pricey. The least expensive one's I found started at $8 & went up in price pretty quickly. I am going to keep my eyes open for some of these lost memories of the past. Always makes me a little sad to think that no one wanted these old photos. They are someones memories. Somehow this makes me feel a little better about giving them a new home.

So I'm off to get the little munchkins into bed then work on some art. I will have a shop update on Monday along with a Fall Sale! So be sure to drop back by. I promise you won't want to miss it!