Today we spent much of the day crafting.....we made some brown bag albums...Sam decorated his with his name and then some spots so he would never forget having chicken pox ;)
Abigail filled hers with pictures of London and stickers of double decker buses etc and then she decorated the front like a face.
I gave some pages from an old book some colour wash and then sprayed them with glimmer mist....the glimmer mist has kind of disappeared into the paper leaving this beautiful shimmer in the wash....I'm going to cover my album pages with those and then fill it with....hhhmmm - not sure yet!!! :)
Abigail started asking a lot of questions about art college and saying she could craft and do art all day every day and maybe she would grow up to be an artist and go to art school....we then ended up talking about whether you can do art when you are 80.....or if you are a man - for some reason she felt that men are not 'arty' - so we started talking about how well daddy can draw...and how good he is with scissors and how good he can paint and how well he makes things...and that the only reason he doesn't draw and paint any more is because of lack of time...
And still she said men aren't 'arty'....
So then we started talking about all the artists she had learned about at art class and how almost ALL of them had been MEN!!! Then we talked about how Chris and Laurence were very good at their different chosen arts...and STILL she decided that men are not 'arty'.
I GIVE UP!!! ;)
Anyhoo...it was a lovely messy crafty day - but my house is all back to normal now and clean and tidy :)
