#300

this is the 300th post on this blog. pretty good in about a year. even if i did most of them. :-)

and, like many of them, i'm using it to share fabulous pictures. because i do so love my nikon D60. best purchase i've ever made. well, at least it's right up there...

first, invitations for an upcoming birthday in our household...

then some beautiful, but busy creative hands...

and lastly a self-portrait which i had fun with in Lightroom2. i'm addicted. and actually, it's not really a self-portrait so much as a picture husband took. i'm all about the eyelashes.

halloween approaches

halloween is coming and since poor sabin never really had a birthday party clear back in january because the house was torn apart, we've invited her whole class to a halloween party. last sunday, we all sat down to make the invitations together.  here are some of the results:

i started off by gocco-ing the words onto one side of the cards.

i love how the gocco-ed cards look in the drying rack.

we stamped the word "Halloween" with rubber stamps.

orange is so cheerful!

even with a skullie on it.

then we proceeded to decorate the other side of the cards.

we used halloween paper goodies i bought at scrap shops in singapore.

sabin did this one.

this one was mine.

one of mathilde's

sabin's favorite one.

we saved this one to remember them by.

and then there was far...

this was tame enough

and rather amusing since it contains an image of

the evil pia kjærsgaard of dansk folkeparti,

the "afraid of the world" party in denmark, 

caught in a spider web.

but then there was this:

husband was quite inspired by the newspaper.

he took a cartoon with the seals and bats,

put it over a picture of a swimming pool of happy children,

and then liberally used a red marker.

i think we'll set to work producing such cards and sell them on etsy ,

in a shop called "totally disturbing cards."

what do you think?

this day will not be so blah

after feeling so totally blah yesterday, i decided to spend a little time looking for inspiration this morning. and i found this cool project and this one or even this one. they're actually all from the same very cool crafty blog--bookhou baby. and it looks like they are pretty much all projects that you can do with crafty kids!

i also really love these. i have to go scrounge the second-hand shops and find some old scrabble sets so i can make my own variation of it. maybe painting in tiny format would help me not feel so overwhelmed by the expanse of canvas.

there are lots of people out there making very cool, very small canvases. sabin did a regular production of them when she came to painting class with me the other day. maybe that would be good. the link here uses all kinds of fun stuff...pretty paper, printing, painting--to make a groovy little bitty collage. i think i need to try that. but i might really NEED one of those gocco machines.