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My son has taken ceramics as an elective in his junior year in high school this past school year. Here is a little selection of his works: Mask I. Rain Stick (with small bits of pre-dried clay...
I returned on Sunday evening from the felting workshop, filled with exciting new techniques and lots of inspiration, eager to try out and experiment. I met seven wonderful fellow-felters and, of...
My box (with materials) and my little suitcase (with clothes and toothbrush) and my bag (with a selection of about 15 books and magazines) are all packed, as I am off early tomorrow morning to...
Nothing had changed for the Tuesday craft this past week. We were still working on the mother’s day gift, i.e. rolling paper beads, while the kids were being entertained by me reading some books to...
We are going to start working on paper beads today to make a necklace as a Mother’s Day gift (Marijke, please be surprised all the same!). It takes a little concentration, patience and fine motor...
This was my test set-up in the living room, which I always do to have a better idea how the real thing might look. Also, just in case I’m running late I could set up really quickly on the day of...
I am very busy preparing crafts for a Spring Market at Panama Pottery this week-end. I will be offering my own goods, as well as the hand-made soap we made with my daughter’s class to raise funds...
Now the bee keeps the day-of-the-week gnomes company. This Thursday they are very color-coordinated, too. Tagged: days of the week, pipecleaner bee, Waldorf gnome, wool felt gnome
Today we will make a little pipe cleaner bee (or two). For two bees you will need: one black and one yellow (or a nice sparkly golden) pipe cleaner, cut in half; white tissue paper; some sewing...
I am getting ready for the intermediate online class in Free Embroidery with Anne Lange that is going to start on April 1. I have already received the beautiful embroidery threads for the first...
It is Spring Break and I used the more relaxed days to prepare some craft projects for children’s birthday parties that I will offer through Trezhers, the store that also sells some of my and my...
For making a cute matchbox message box, magic trick included, you need the following materials: empty matchbox, glue stick, white (or other colored) paper to cover matchbox and write note for...
We (8 women) finished half of the dolls (16 out of 32) in two hours, not bad! I am glad I did the preparation work, that helped a lot. One more fun meeting and they’ll be done. Here is the first...
32 dolls ready to be assembled. Phew, that was more work than I had anticipated, but I had support from my daughter and my niece and I am glad I prepped everything well, since it will make the...
On my walk with the dog yesterday morning, while wondering what I wanted to make in class the next day, I saw a lot of daffodils in people’s front yards. I remembered that I had wanted to...
No Tuesday Craft today, since the kids are out of school early all week for parent-teacher conferences. I have been working on this and that, but not much altogether, feeling kind of lethargic. I...
Since we still have a lot of calendars left in the classroom we are going to turn a pretty picture into a jigsaw puzzle today. I used to love making these puzzles, when I was a kid and I hope the...
To an online sewing class, that is. I signed up for the first time to one of Craftsy’s many classes. A Couture Sewing Class no less. I love the concept of online classes, as it allows me to choose...
I wanted to make something with just a hint of Valentine’s Day with the class today and it turned into this little heart “garland” out of pipe cleaners and wooden beads. The children loved it (boys...
Getting ready for Valentine’s Day. In my youngest son’s second grade it is still custom to bring a Valentine’s greeting for everybody in the class, no candy, nothing store-bought, just something...
What do you do with a child that is not sick enough anymore to sit on the couch lethargically, but not well enough to go back to school? A child that has read all the books on his shelf (and there...
As seen on one of my favorite (German) blogs, Die Raumfee, here is my version of her post about a “magic potion” (aka ginger/apple/honey tea) to ward of or help cure sickness. Since I have two sick...
For the umpteenth bake sale after school today I decided to make snack bags filled with Ritz Crunch, a recipe from this crazy recipe book: I have never been to New York to check this place out, but...
Getting ready for our visitor – one of my younger sister’s daughters is coming from Germany to stay with us for nearly two months. So I cleared (part of) my craft room/studio to make space for her....
*see note The first set of my own Valentine’s Day gifts for Trezhers Gift Shop. Felt-covered soaps with little needle-felted hearts, three different sizes. I personally like pretty things that you...
New items to be sold at “Trezhers“, a local gift store that sells only hand-made things from local artists/crafters. They asked for Valentine’s Day related articles and this is my daughter’s...
I love it when children voluntarily help cleaning the dishes… (The remnants of this delicious blueberry cake batter) Tagged: blueberry cake
We still have plenty of old calendars left in the classroom. The paper bag project proved to be quite difficult for 7 and 8-year-olds (we practiced and made more a second time last Tuesday). But,...
This is what I made out of the “pancakes” introduced in this post. Something pretty to embellish my mom’s new home. Something cheerful and practical that is not seasonal, but you actually want to...
Today was the day to draw the winners of my blog anniversary give-away. All the lovely commenters’ names on little pieces of paper… got added to a very neutral empty jam jar… and a very neutral and...
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