Alô - alô !

Started the holiday workshops for the kids today, curious what we do ? check it out here * It's winter here and today it rained and rained and rained some more, but we were warm inside with all the art supplies....lots of FUN !

This ostrich seems to be calling out : "alô, alô " !

La Mer ~ an upcycled book

front of book - pre drawings

one of the spreads - pre drawings

I received some art supplies last week and they stuffed brown paper in the box to keep the items from moving around, I have a hard time throwing away good paper, so I thought to use this for a try-out project. I thought I could have the kids make something like this maybe, but then again, maybe it is a little too time consuming for them, maybe if we just did 2 or 3 pages. Well anyway, I finished mine and wanted to show you. It's kind of a twist on Carla's junkmail booklet {that I am currently also working on btw} So I have used brown paper in different sizes, just ripped at the edges, layered it to make it look old {this took quite some time, coating both sides a few times and the drying in between} and I thought I'd like to theme the images and since the colours and the texture made me think about the ocean, I made it all deep sea related. So the trick is that every pages images continue with their lines into the next page, where those lines make up different images again, it's like a puzzle {and this also takes some time and patiences and going back and forth} So much FUN ! Oh, and of course there also is a Mermaid :)

Funky Stool -a la- Dr Seuss

It started with a wooden desk I found on the side of the road with a "FREE" sign on it....had to take it home, had plans to restore and paint it for my daughter. Then when I was putting some primer on that, I suddenly glanced over at this very vintage little 70's Brabantia stool we had in the kitchen. One of those oh-so-easy little stools, especially if you have kids wanting to help out with baking and stuff. Anyway, the legs were chipped and ugly, so I thought I'll put a bit of primer on them as well. Voilá ! Now I have finished the stool, very Dr. Seuss-y, but still working on the desk (which I will share once finished)