Endless creativity

Regan loves art. It's her "thing". She has a cabinet with supplies looking like the shelves of an art store. Her school offers enrichment classes periodically after school and she's always eager to sign up. And when she brings home clay work like this, I'm eager  to sign her up!

She was elated to learn how to draw daddy's favorite breed of dogs too. Now I'm just trying to find creative ways to display all of her art.

And let's not forget the little sister following in her footsteps. She whipped up this lion on the fly one afternoon. Quite impressive kiddos!

Art show

Regan adores art. Always has. It's an activity we can almost always engage her in. She loves pencils, colors, markers, chalk, paint, oil pastels, etc. But we're finding that our art cabinet is over-flowing with "stuff" and she can't seem to start and more importantly finish, any project at home. However, in school she is doing some amazing work. Given her love of art, we weren't super surprised when we got a note home from school last week that her art teacher was putting a piece of Regan's work in the upcoming art show. She was over the moon excited and we were very proud of her! 

The art show had a "Grand Opening" with a recognition and reception on Monday evening so she soaked up the whole being on stage.

Grandma Monday meant Grandma Jan got to join us at the reception which was a treat too :)

Uncle Ben offered to buy her art work too....we'll have to see what Regan is going to charge him! Congratulations Regan, we are very proud of you and your fish!

Art, Art, and More Art!

We have a couple of little girls who are obsessed with art. You name it, we have it on hand. Crayons, markers (regular, window, ones you blow into and the ink splatters, dry erase...), paint (water, finger, regular, acrylic, oil...), chalk, pens and pencils (boxes full of them). And then there's play doh, stamps, glitter, scissors, model magic, and the list goes on. Four entire cabinets of art supplies.

My parents bought Regan the "mother of all" art kits for Christmas. She's in love. 

I'm in love that they play on this together. 

Just look at the rows and rows of colors. And there's everything a girl can think of to use on paper, all wrapped up into one tidy kit. 

It also came with a "how to" booklet which has taught her the step by step instructions for drawing a basic puppy face, butterfly and whale. Regan took it to the next level and is now drawing away on her easel. 

Look out world, here's the next Georgia O'Keeffe!

Family fun day

With a host of friends feeling ill, our plans this weekend have been cancelled twice already. We hope they all feel better soon, but we were happy to stay healthy. In the meantime, it has given us plenty of opportunity to break into some Christmas presents and P-L-A-Y!

Tonight, I created some delicious cake-pops with my new cake-pop maker. 

These puppies are heavenly bite sized yummy-ness! 

After several boxes of Lego friends, art on the easel, along with a few rounds of "teacher", the girls were ready to dig into some structured craft projects. They created some pretty cute snowmen to hang on our fridge to replace all the Christmas trees/Santas that came down this week. 

Such an artist! 

Just around the corner

In an effort to be prepared for all the holiday decorating, you know, the holiday that is just around the corner, I've been working with the girls on various 'art projects'. 

They are loving my new found love of Pinterest. 

Last night we created our own ornaments that will be hung above our dining room table during the Christmas season. And with the amount of acrylic paint that was poured into each glass ornament before they shook them up, it's going to take several weeks for those puppies to dry!

I took the kiddos to see Wreck It Ralph at the mall and wouldn't you know it, Santa was already there, perched in his chair. We aren't quite ready for the full Santa visit, so we dashed around to the back of his set-up and snapped a few pictures with the decorations. 

Christmas is just around the corner....it's of the few reasons I tolerate winter.