Saturday, February 12, 2011

Day Eleven


Homer was a gift when I had surgery at the age of 17. He comes from Concord, Massachusetts.  He has a plastic heart pin which has been hidden by the cats so I needle felted him a new one. He is much happier now.

I stitched a little pin on the back.
I am sick today and was starting to get sick last night so I lacked energy and ambition. Still, it's cute, right?

Day Ten

Oops! We are a little late due to a busy week and onset of illness. Better late than never!

Today's offering, fresh from the broiler!

Often people use this phrase to mean angry words, but I this case, I just mean passionate.  And I can also say that I've never so enjoyed eating my words as I did on this occasion.

Mmmm, meaty hearts!  Some look a little more like pretzels, perhaps connoting the puzzling nature of the heart.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Day Nine

Twenty-eight heart-shaped bags for my classroom's Valentine's Day celebration.
Preschoolers in the process of decorating...
...yielding bags ready to receive messages of love!
(Jrl speaking here) Last night, oy! was I tired! So I did it by the numbers.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Day Eight


Made out of the pricklies I was walking upon while on my lunch break. Ouch!
Behind the scenes:

Only had red sparkly glue for the glue gun. Perhaps it shall some day be painted red...

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Day Seven

Well, we did a lot over the weekend and had visits with Dr. Jim at night so this is the best we could do:


I made the marbled paper (not yesterday) and cut out the heart. The true love wrote in French with assistance. Yay! Hunca Munca had to represent. She lives for the art room table these days.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Day Six


Day Six really began on Day Five because this was a little involved. I have decided that this is a-o-k with me, and we can make up our rules as we like.

I was inspired by someone's fascinating collection of books last month and had a hankering that seemed like a good fit for this month. Now to find a book. Who knew it would be this one which was in the clearance of Half Price Books. They had a lot of good books in that clearance rack, all for $2-$3. Don't hate me for what you are about to see. My 10+ years of bookbinding study make up for it. Really. Ask my teacher. I didn't *just* drink tea and talk.

I thought Hunca Munca needed a gift for Valentine's Day! She has been so much friendlier since we have spent more time in the art room.

Who doesn't love reptiles?! We have another copy of this in our bookshelves.

Be Mine Hunca Munca! I brought you your favorite!!! It's a great assortment and difficult to obtain.

Crocodiles, turtles, frilled lizards, snakes, chameleons, and more. Oh my! Those tails sure look a lot like strings....

Can you see her level of attention? She is happy with her gift. Every time I open the book she gets all interested and excited.

But which to choose first? I know what kitties like best...

Delicious jelly chameleons!!!! They swing and drop so nicely. Especially if you loosen them up by swinging them and dropping them a lot (and I mean a lot!).

Time to get it again.
Truth be told, I have a few additional plans for this but it seemed like a viable project and I feel it makes a good showing for Day Six. Later it may return with a few additions to make it more awesome.

Now for some crazy behind the scenes shots and general art room antics:






The true love helped make a mobile to hang hearts off of using branches discovered on Day Five. Of course he also did much of the heart cutting for which I am grateful. I did enough to know it would hurt my already hurt finger. Luckily Dr. Jim just fixed it up for me. We (me, actually) came up with the ingenious idea to hang things off of tension rods rather than putting screws into the walls. The art room lighting is much improved and there are sticks too! At the hardware store, while buying the tension rods, some pegboard, and other random goods, we may or may not have also obtained a dremel tool. We aren't exactly saying yet.

I need to take a better shot of the dupioni silk interior. Can you say Berkeley Morris vest fabric??? Ciao. And could someone just follow us in the margin just to make me feel good!? I will be doing some giveaways and you can only ask for the goods if I can see you somewhere like a comment or as a follower.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Day Five

Inexplicably I got out of bed at 6:30 AM yesterday and the true love emerged around 7:30. We decided to redeem our gift certificate to Bette's and headed down to Fourth Street. We were not alone! We had to wait about 10 minutes for a table. After deliciousness was done we walked around, killing time before the stores opened. Some art was done, some nature collected, and much was observed. Then we shopped and I was inspired and have many ideas for projects to come...

Beautiful spring blossomed tricked by the warm weather.

The sun was very warm and low in the sky.

Guess who decided add lettering? These are our blog initials!

I even found love in the air (kind of)! And so Day Five concluded early for me.
We came back to spy and see if anyone was looking. Three sets of people walked over without seeing, and when we went back it looked like this.
That night our friend was enjoying the pithy sayings of the true love so he wrote them up for her to take home.