This Creative Week 4
Hey friends! How was your weekend? My husband has been sick, and along with that I’m trying hard to balance my life, which at the moment includes learning how to get the kids organized for school, making time to write,…
Year 2012
Baked Pumpkin Seeds
While it still feels like summer here in California, pumpkins are showing up at our markets and the feeling of Autumn is in the air. How do you cook pumpkin seeds My older daughter asked about getting a pumpkin, so…
On Failure
I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately, and how failure is nothing more than an opportunity to learn, improve, iterate, and grow. Innovators aren’t afraid of failure, and in many cases it’s only by embracing failure that we can…
Styrofoam Printmaking with Kids
This project uses materials that you probably already have at home, or can easily find in your drug store. The only specialty item is a brayer, but without it you’d never expose your kids to the experience of true printmaking. Styrofoam Printmaking…
Discover the Art You Love
This post is sponsored by art.com. Do you love the art on your walls? There’s not one thing on my walls that I don’t love for one reason or another, and I’m a huge advocate of filling our homes with…
Halloween Countdown Paper Chain
Are your kids as bonkers about Halloween as mine are? Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, and my passion for it clearly seeped into my kids’ genes because my 4-year old has been filling her sketchbook with pictures of…