Arts and Crafts!

Summer is pretty much over and I'm feeling the hype for Fall and Winter crafting, it hits me pretty hard and I want to do a million and one projects. Oh but time is short and even at the end of Sept I'm telling myself, "Limit it, don't start a bunch of stuff you won't finish." So I started AND finished a cute little 'spooky tree', made from an oatmeal can. So fun!

I just love getting my hands dirty. I am proud of the pencil/ink marks on my fingers from sketching, and paint or plaster stuck in the beds of my nails from hours of fun.
The kids will some times join in for, maybe 10 minutes but they get board burnt out and move on to playing outside or watching tv. I know right, crafting is such hard work, gotta take brakes? Not this gal. Kael and Fiona are the big lovers of mommy's craft, sketch, paint time. Here is a work of true art by my 4 year old Kael! Isn't it just beautiful. He sat and painted this with water color for 35 minutes. He was so methodical about his brush strokes and where he wanted to put them. I was blown away at his delicate hand. I've seen many a 4 yr old's paintings and this is beyond me! I am so proud of him.