Mother's Day crafts

Thursday was craft day at Grandma's. We decided that the kids would paint birdhouses for their moms for Mother's Day These were re cute, little, wooden houses that I bought at the dollar store.
We used washable paints and set everything up in the garage. So after school we got started. As you can see we had a wide variety of techniques.

Josh's birdhouse was a kaleidescope of colors. He wanted to use every color in the paint box on the house with an emphasis on black. Kelly's house was very typically Kelly; pink and purple. She's such a girly-girl. And Erin's house showed her personality as well. Blue with white polka dots and white with blue polka dots. Erin is more creative and steps out of the box. All in all it was a good day and the mom's were surprised with their gifts. I don't know who enjoyed craft day more; Me or the grandkids.

A new favorite

I just discovered another great blog. It's http://inchmark.squarespace.com. This very talented lady used to be an art director at Martha Stewart. I love the Christmas Stockings she's made and I hope she posts the tutorial because I think I need to make these for the whole family for next year.

A fan of Martha

I love Martha Stewart! I love her products and crafts. If I were rich I'd be buying all of her crafting products to replace all of my tools and craft supplies. I especially like her new circle cutter that I saw on her show last week. I don't need a circle cutter (I think I already have two) but I want Martha's because it looks so nice. I don't even have any craft ideas forming in the back of my head where I would need to cut circles but I think I may have to buy one anyway. Unless of course, Santa is reading this.


I also saw a hole punch that I want. Not an ordinary hole punch that works like a pair of pliers. This one looks like a screwdriver and you just place it where ever you need a hole and push it down and bingo! You have a hole! What could be neater than that?

Santa? Are you reading this?