Sweet Baby Child

My friend, Sophie, has a new blog with lots of fun stuff...

Check it out: http://sweetbabychild.blogspot.com/

Lemons!

My lovely husband got me a lemon tree for my birthday this year (May) and I finally have some lemons ready to eat! It's a small tree and only produced three, but it's already budding to make more!

Handprint Christmas Tree Topper

We haven't had a star for the top of our Christmas tree for the last few years. We always ended up using an ornament. Rather than buying one, I decided to make one this year with my little helper. 

Here's a little How-To:

First, gather materials: Construction paper, finger paint, tape/glue, scissors.

Start by making a few handprints on white paper. I think white is best for the most contrast and I choose green rather than red paint (might end up looking a little gory). I made sure to do several and spaced them far enough apart to have room to cut around:

Be prepared to get messy, we luckily only ended up with just a little on her shirt and forehead:

 Cut out your favorite hand print. I tried a few different styles of cutting, but decided I liked the large circle the best:

Once cut, I glued it onto a piece of red construction paper:

Then I cut a small circle around the white out of the red:

Roll up a piece of green construction paper into a tube and tape or glue it together:

Then flatten it and cut off the bottom to an even edge. I applied glue to the top half of the cone:

Glue the hand part to the top of the cone. I wrote her name and the date on the back:

Finished tree topper!

Zander Olsen: Tree, Line.

Really amazing series from artist/photographer Zander Olsen.  Love. It. 

Link

via poppytalk

Salad Jars

I saw this on the Martha Stewart show the other day and needed to share it somewhere, sounds so delicious!

Link here:

http://www.marthastewart.com/869532/tuna-nicoise-salad-jars

Free Fabric!

A new exhibit at my local museum, The Columbus Museum of Art, is giving away free fabric! The exhibit is by Stephanie Syjuco. It's called Pattern Migration, and the artist had 5,000 meters of plastic fabric manufactured in Beijing. The fabric design was inspired by an American coverlet from CMA’s Stuck Collection of coverlets from the nineteenth-century.

This is definitely something I'm going to check out! I'm not sure what I'm going to make with it (red and black isn't my favorite color scheme), but maybe some tote bags? It's actually plastic-y, like oil cloth. When you're done making something with it, you can share it on Flickr and tag with CMASyjuco. I'll put it on my to-do list (maybe it will get done in a couple of months-ha!).

For more information, visit the Museum blog here: http://www.columbusmuseum.org/blog/2011/08/16/free-syjuco-fabric/.

via CMA Blog

Portal!

Science!

I need Portal 2 gear!