Mini pumpkin

Have a look at the mini pumpkin (size of a big apple) that I carved and decorated for yesterdays "fête de la citrouille" = pumpkin feast in our village. 

A bientôt,

Jane

dry leaves meets doodle

Yesterday I found a little case with pressed leaves in a box with crafting stuff. They must have been there at least 3 years! Astonishingly they didn't fell to dust when I touched them! 

As I had a moment and have been anyway on the lookout for a new crafting idea, I decorated some leaves with pencils, glued them into my sketch book and started doodling around them with fine-liners.

A bientôt,

Jane

Drawing game

During the last visit of my mom we invented on a rainy indoor day a drawing game with the boys. 

Everyone had a piece of paper and the kids shield each working space off by putting folders upright, so everyone could make his drawings secretly. 

Then someone announced the first drawing theme. In the case I will show you it had been "giraffe". After everyone finished his giraffe-drawing he gave the paper to his neighbor and we announced the next theme that had been in this case "mosquito". Same as before: drawing and giving the paper to the next. The third theme had been "climbing plant" and the last "landscape". Then we rewealed all drawings and laughed about the mixed styles in every drawing. 

This is my paper. As I can't really draw realistic animals I only put in the neck of a giraffe, my mom adds the little mosquitos, son number 2 the fence with the climbing plants and the gardener and son number 1 put all together with his landscape.

These are the other 3 pictures. 

I love all of them! They are so unique and funny!

The boys loved the game and we had several other tours.

This are some other results. The themes had been: 1. latern, 2. tree, 3. person, 4. combining everything.

The photographs had been taken with my telephone, so the quality isn't very good.

You really need to try that out with your kids! It's lots of fun!

A bientôt,

Jane

Autumnal table decoration

Inspired by a table decoration I made several years ago (have a look in the past), I cut some left over wood bars to 20cm pieces, smoothed them, drilled holes, put them together, add dry plants and other stuff and ... voila:

This is the colored autumn version, that I prefer. Do you like the little dancer? But of course you can stay in one color scheme: 

This is more discrete as everything is blue, beige, brown. Here I like the book-page-feathers most.

I also made sets for the kids in my crafting classes that started again in the beginning of september. The assembling was very easy for them as I did the drilling of the bigger holes. The small ones for the flowers I let them do, but it happens very quick to drill the hole through the entire bar and not only until the middle. You might have recognised the yellow pearl in my deco piece?! That is where I drilled too far ;-)

With the kids I also made fairies and feathers in two different sessions. They had a lot of fun and I love their creative and very own way to decorate. You need to have a look at their creations!

In the beginning I planned to paint the wood a bit with indian-style patterns, but already mine didn't turn out nice, so I switched to masking tape. The advantage is that I can change it, whenever I want. So I will do maybe some Christmas table deco, I will first change the tape to something winterly.

I prefer the zig-zag way of putting the table deco, but you can also line it straight or in an arc. 

Enjoy the autumn as well!

A bientôt,

Jane