shadow drawings

The inspiration for this project came early one morning when some particularly beautiful shadows of trees were splashed onto our walls. Later that afternoon, we went outside with a few friends and traced them so we could make some simple, fun paintings.
If you keep the pallet basic (two colors per painting works wonderfully) the pictures will always turn out great no matter how experienced the little artist is!~Imaginechildhood

Homemade Sidewalk Chalk

Mad Maggie Designs has a nice tutorial showing you how to make sidewalk chalk at home!

Summer Fun So Far

Monday... Writing class @ Julie's. Great class! Lot's to learn.

Tuesday...Nature Journaling @ Chelsea Anderson Park. Made "solar prints" (they didn't last) I need to learn more about this. Also painted/sketched/drew art. Ate great cookies from Julie. Ended with free time on the park toys. Next week I think we will go to 4H garden near BG.

Wednesday... Worked on writing for class. Home inspection and cherry picking at Uncle Jon's possible new house. (water in crawl space and incorrectly installed sump pump).

Thursday... Cosmic Bowling with Briana, Jillian, Vaughan and Wesley. Had a blast. Black lights, strobe lights and disco balls, loud pop music, 2 games, shoes, pizza and soda for $6 per kiddo! Such a deal.

Friday... Piano class, games at Round Table, maybe a movie...Transformers 2???

I hope your having a great Imbolic or Groundhog's Day if you prefer!

Bri had classes today and then came home fired up about science. She checked on her egg experiment from yesterday(one in water and one in vinegar). She giggled with delight to see the one in water had expanded beyond it's shell. After that we looked at A Drop of Water by Walter Wick. She decided to try out "Molecules in Motion" Using a drop of food coloring in a jar of still water she was able to watch as the water spread throughout.

I made homemade chicken strips and fries for dinner. They were alright but Bri was still hungry afterwards...she must be growing again.

I had copied an excert from the Mother Earth Book on Imbolic and so I had her read it and look at some of the recommended celebration ideas. She was egar to have candles out so I obliged.
We gathered our candles and lit them. For me it was in honor of the earths light. I think Bri was doing something from one of her books about meditation and future foretelling. Either way it was very nice and symbolic for us both.

Now she is off getting ready for bed and I am getting ready to join a raid with my husband. Three evenings a week after family time he and I run raids with our World of Warcraft Guild. It is good to have something to do with him that is all about him=D So I am off to play. Hopefully I will be sleeping tonight but if I am once again unable I will tell you about some of the sites I found today on Pond Ecology for Bri's science class.

Good Evening! Be sure to light your candle tonight as well=D

Winter Blah!

Sunday night? Where did the weekend go! Not enough house cleaning to many birthday parties and engagements with friends. So here I sit waiting for one last load of laundry to finish. As I read through my fav. blogs I once again remember my own desire to host a blog and here again I return. Why is it that while doing anything else I can think of pleanty I want to say but once I sit down and begin to type I achieve nothing but writers block and therefore simply drone on...

Tomorrow Bri will attend her writing and science class which she has informed me she could happily do without=D. However at least for know her lust for the theater class she is taking will keep her submissive to my requirement that she also take the writing and science classes as well. After along talk on Friday I think she is also back on task with her studies as well. It must be hard for her to focus on such boring things when all she wants at the moment is to be a broadway actress and singer. At 11 she is past the point of blindly believing me when I tell her there is more to learn and yet she is still not sure how to boldly refuse me either, so far so good=D

Tonight in my email box I recieved her latest book requests and I had to giggle a little inside. She is so her mother's daughter. All neatly typed and cross referenced to Amazon. Such a smart cookie. As I tucked her in tonight she inquired as to how soon the books would be arriving... okay so we still need to work on the whole "Just because you ask for it doesn't mean you'll get it" and maybe a little "money doesn't grow on trees" and possibly a tiny " these things take time". Or maybe I will just suck it up and order them, after all there are worse things a preteen girl could be asking for, right?

Almost like an alarm clock the buzzer on the dryer sounds to remind me that sleep is a necessary evil, and one that I don't seem to do well without. So cheers and sweet dreams to all, goodnight.