Make Your Own Canvas Beach Windbreak
Last summer we had a marvelous two week beach vacation planned at one of my very favorite spots to visit – Cannon Beach, Oregon. It’s a dreamy beach, miles long and extra wide so there’s plenty of room for walking, running, flying kites or…
Watercolor Paintings with Black Glue Outlines
Another one of our summer projects, inspired by a project from my daughter’s school art program – watercolors with an outline of black glue. This gives the picture the appearance almost of stained glass, and keeps the colors from bleeding over the lines. I…
Notecards Made From Natural Found Objects
Ok, back in the saddle again. The summer’s winding down, most of our crazy busy days are over, and its time to start back up with this blog – I’ve been having terrible writer’s block, but I think the way over it is just…
Drawing on Driftwood
We took advantage of the beautiful late summer day today and headed to the beach for what will probably be one of our last beach outings of the season. While the kids played in the sand I picked up a small smooth piece of…
Beach Pebble Drink Coasters
The other day I was sitting on my bed reading with a cold drink when I realized I needed coasters for the bedroom nightstands. I still had a whole bucket of flat beach stones left over from the mirror I made so I decided…
Using Beach Pebbles to Create a DIY Decorative Mirror
Last summer we spent a wonderful week on a family vacation at the Oregon Coast. The house we rented was right on the ocean, on a great beach with only one slight drawback – the 20 yards of rocks and beach pebbles between the…
Sunset in Pixels
As I was browsing Pinterest this afternoon, looking for something to do for today’s project, I came across this pin, which led me to this post on Wit & Whistle about pixel painting. The basic idea is to scale a photograph down to just…
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