Happy Birthday Harry!

My daughter is a huge Harry Potter fan! Right from the beginning she was hooked on Harry. Me not so much. However, let's celebrate Harry's birthday. I made a pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting. Let's just say that the frosting is so good that I will have to skip supper tonight and maybe breakfast in the morning. The recipe is from Martha Stewart's, "Everyday Foods".

Summer Birthdays

My daughter asked me to make birthday cards for two girls who attend the art camp she is teaching at this summer. She wanted them to be a beach theme. That is what the kids are working on this week, beach projects! Great, I love the beach. Knowing how six year old girls can be, I made the cards almost identical. Just the umbrellas are different colors.

Color Comfort Zone

I am taking a giant step out of my color comfort zone. Here is a sneak peek at a little something I started working on yesterday. It is quite a departure from the colors I have been using for the past few months. I like how it is coming out, now what am I going to do with it?

Covered Coffee Can

Sunday afternoon was rather stormy in Rhode Island so I looked through a lot of magazines. I found a picture of a empty paint can that was covered with paper that an artist used to hold all her colored pencils. I had an empty coffee can so why not cover that and put my markers in it! My markers have returned and they now need a place to be other than a plastic container! I used a paper other than my favorite black and tan dotted paper. The bird is glued to a clothespin and it adds dimension to the can.

Oh yes, another bird!

I wanted to keep the creative mood going this afternoon. I went into my craft cabinet and found this notepad that I bought at Target last winter. I knew I would get around to covering it sooner or later. I like that it has a pen attached to it. I should of bought a few more.

I know you must be thinking, another bird! It is funny that I never thought of myself as a bird fan, but they are easy to cut out and so here, is yet another bird!

I like how the flowers came out. They seem to be jumping right of the cover!

My Markers Are Missing!

The papered soaps did not look all that special just sitting there on the beige shelf in the bathroom. So yesterday on my weekly trip to Jo Ann's I bought a paper mache box. I covered it in between rain storms and power outages. I wonder what I will do when Jo Ann's does not carry my favorite black paper?



After drawing the little flowers on a piece of white paper I was quite surprised when I opened the closet door to get my markers, to find that they were missing! How could that be, they have been there for years! Ah, my daughter was home this weekend and I was not. It had to be her! I have had my markers for seven years, where could they be? She brought them to a friend's house................great! They will be back in the house and safely put back in their place by Saturday. If not, well I won't even go there! I found a few highlighters to fill in the flowers, so things turned out well. I am off to get a haircut and do a little food shopping. The rain has finally stopped and I can go outside today!

Papered Soap

I have to get back into the swing of papering everything in my house. So today, while cleaning I noticed these bars of soap in the bathroom. If they do not say paper me, I am not sure what does. We have all seen the soap bars that have packaged in pretty paper at the cute boutiques. Well , my soaps are as good as any other soaps, they deserve a little papering!

I must say this is a simple paper project that can be done in minutes. I think it would make a cute hostess gift. My soaps needed a little birdie to make the project just a little more, let's say special!
I am looking forward to visiting all my favorite sights tonight. I am having blog withdrawals!!!