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March 18, 2010 | Filed in: Draw, Paint, Mess,links, links and more links!

drawn with black fine liner, coloured in photoshop

I have a hankering to do arty stuff at the moment. To sit and draw and doodle and not be stifled by the idea that I am crap at drawing. To paint just for the sheer joy of seeing colours on paper. I’ve been inspired by these links…

Paper cloth at iHana’s Blog - a very cool way to use up paper scraps by gluing them to cotton making a more durable, usable, interesting paper cloth! This is a gorgeous crafty blog with some delish photos and interesting projects so take some time to look around a bit while you are there!

Water Colour Beads from gingerblue.com – oh my how gorgeous are these!?!?!

Zentangles on Squidoo – who knew there was a name and form to doodling little shapey things. Loving this!

Painting Tiles at Artsyville – wondering if making some of these would be ‘too much’ for one of our newly added bathrooms when we renovate? kitchen splash back maybe?

More arty inspiration at Daisy Yellow

Anyone else inspired to get arty at the moment?

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We are not religious, it’s not spring here, our kids don’t really eat chocolate and The Baldy Boy is working all weekend. So while we usually get together with family for a meal or something, that’s about as far as it goes. Now the girls are out in the Big Wide World (ie they go to kinder) however, they are learning about all kinds of things, like the Easter Bunny.

The Easter Bunny came to kinder, and left presents in the form of a couple of chocolate eggs.

Not quite two years ago my girl’s didn’t even know there was chocolate inside those pretty eggs and bunnies in the supermarket, but now they have tasted the thrill of Bunny’s with presents they are pretty keen on the idea.

Lucky for me extended family will fulfil the role of Easter Bunny and let me off the hook. I’m not quite the worst mother in the world though. When the girls talked about ‘doing something special for Easter’ I mentioned the words ‘craft’ and ‘sewing’ and their eyes lit up.

So true to my word, we spent today, Good Friday, making these….

egg-beanbags

In case you can’t guess, they are Egg-citing Egg-beanbag people. Of course you knew that already didn’t you!

The girls drew on egg shaped pieces of calico (so did Muski but his is not in the photo) and then helped me sew them all together. We filled them with rice and I stabbed myself a million times sewing up their bums. We made one each for Zoe, Izzy and Muski and one for all of their grown up cousins (they are the ones in the photo… a prince, a princess and a man with a dinosaur tattoo!)

So no fluffy bunnies or chocolate here… but still a little something special.

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