POD Project - Home

The subject for February's POD project was Home. My friend, and fellow blogger, Laurel gave me a page from an old children's craft book as my "Point of Departure". The craft was to make Noah's Ark: a home for many. I should have taken a photo of the page before it was cut up. I will try to remember to do that for next month's POD project. Visit Laurel's blog to see what see did with the page I gave her.

Illustration Friday - Propagate

Illustration Friday - Adrift

Here is my collage for Illustration Friday. Unfortunately, the scan doesn't show the beautifully textured white Unryu tissue background.

My photo in Schmap!

Back in January I received a message on my Flickr account stating one of my photos had been short-listed for inclusion in the tenth annual Schmap Boston Guide. Well, today I found out the photo has been included.

You can view the photo here. It is one of many highlighting this specific tourist attraction.

The photo is from a trip I took to Boston last fall with my family. When I look at it I am clearly reminded of the four of us slowly walking around this historical site absorbing the history and the atmosphere. It was lovely.

You can view more photos of our New England road trip here.

Illustration Friday - Muddy

Here is my interpretation of this week's Illustration Friday subject: muddy.

Big corporate finances are "unclear" to me.

A New Look to Loot Bags

Recently, my daughter celebrated her birthday with eight girlfriends at our house.

Together, her and I made spiffy, little loot bags for the guests. With some simple cutting and sewing we made small, felt purses. Inside we put what my daughter (and hopefully the guests) would enjoy: a homemade note booklet personalized with each girls' initial, two pencils and a pack of (colour coordinating!) candies.

It took more time to put these together than buying some bags and loot at the toy store or dollar store, but it was far more rewarding (and memorable) to make something special.