Why is play important? Why is happiness important? They are the same question to me. If we talk about kids, most would agree it is necessary for children to play. It plays a significant role in how they develop socially, their physical well being, and cognitive development. But why is it just good for kids? [...]
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I didn’t have what I needed…so I used what I had around to create it! I felt a little like McGyver when the idea popped into my head to make a flat calligraphy dip pen just so I could write Star Wars in my art journal for this week’s Let’s Play link party. I’m [...]
I want to be the type of person who chronicles every day in a scrapbook or planner or journal. Reality check…I’m not. I might do it a few days, then miss a bunch, then do it again, but by March, I am usually so far behind that I never pick it up again. But what I [...]
Art journaling is all about capturing moments for me. And sometimes, I want to get the date in there. But there is a catch. I generally dislike my handwriting so I’ve created a stencil that solves this issue for me, the Never Ending Calendar stencil in 4×4 and 6×6 sizes for StencilGirl. Plus, I have [...]
What am I sharing for this week’s Let’s Play link party? Plop, plop, but no fizz fizz, but oh what a relief play is…okay I might be a little slap happy from the play…As I was playing with a little Gelli Plate® and a stencil, I got the most wonderful thrill plopping it right on the paper. In [...]
Ever since I saw Maria McGuire’s Butterfly and Butterfly Duo stencils I wanted to make a book out of them. Well, I finally did it! And along the way…made a few Oopsies but one totally pushed me to use a tool in my studio that I try to avoid at all costs! You can see [...]
What’s my play for this week’s Let’s Play link party? It was inspired by a little Black Friday shopping when I impulsively bought some ribbon on super sale. And some clear glitter. This is the season for glitter! But when using glitter, you need a way to make it stick. But I am impatient and [...]
The holidays have arrived faster than I realized…and I am running late getting my nephew’s advent calendar together. The fact that I have zero holiday wrapping paper isn’t a problem because I am going to make my own. But I needed to get this mailed out yesterday…so I need to get lots of wrapping paper [...]
It’s Tuesday and that means a new Let’s Play link party for all of us to share what we’ve been creating! What play have I been up to? I’ve been making a plan and then not following it. The plan came about while I was checking out the all the fun stuff shared in last week’s [...]
“Can I go over to Christi’s house?” “Can Maria come over?” As a kid, I was always asking to go to a friends house or to have a friend or two come over. Now I am an adult and I still want to play! So I am interrupting my grown up day for a little play! [...]
