Wednesday, October 17, 2007

So, we made a book....





Okay, me and my neice made this a few weeks ago, but I haven't had a chance to post it. This was a book we made. I made the covers and wrote the words and then she colored every other page while I did the others. I titled it "Five little pumpkins" since I had done a story similar to this in elementary school. I can't remember how the whole thing goes (even though I still have the original!), so I made up my own words. :) She liked it, but I have no idea where it is now. Oh, and I've decided to nickname my neice and nephews so that they can keep their privacy, yet with a nickname, it will sound much better than saying my neice or nephews all the time. :) My neice's nickname, which you can see on the book, is Meme. My oldest nephew's nickname is Robin and the youngest I've nicknamed Pumpkin. :) So if I mention any of them from now on, I'll try to refer to their nicknames instead of just saying neice and nephews all the time.

I actually liked making this little book, but it's so hard to keep young children happy until it's finished! :) She constantly wanted to glue or cut, so if you plan to make a book with a small child, be sure you have some busy work or you'll end up with a chopped up, glue covered book instead. :)

Monday, October 1, 2007

Birthday

This weekend was my neice and dad's birthday, so to celebrate in my own, artful way (and since the little party we had didn't give me a chance to draw much this weekend), I decided to use Facebook's application, Graffiti, to celebrate her birthday, which you can you read my first blog about here. I thought this little girl would be fun to show how my neice was so excited for her birthday. I haven't done much art with any of my neice or nephews for the past week or so, so I thought this would be a bit more fun and colorful.