I made some tags to put on the party favor boxes for my friend’s daughter’s b-day this weekend. She’s giving out boxes of origami paper with instructions for a few simple folds. I find the kids names, and how they differ from the names that were popular when I was young, particularly fascinating.
I tried out gouache for the first time (I actually thought I was watercoloring)… not that it matters I wouldn’t know what I was doing either way. I’m also going to add that I don’t do anything delicately, nor do I do flowers. I was trying to make a card that grandma would like to say thanks for an awesomely old-timey hardcover cookbook she recently passed on to me. And all she gets in return in a sloppy test run at trying to paint…
a magnet thank you, made out of those same old road trip contact sheets. Because of the weather, I couldn’t get my car from the shop, and had no way over the mountain home. So thanks Stacey! I got to camp in Allentown and have good food, good drinks and many laughs. (And, as special thanks, I did not photograph the inside of your medicine cabinet just to fulfill the ’spying’ theme on thing-a-day)
Well aren’t these just cute!
I made these cards with my initial on them for sending as “anytime” notes.
If I can get any of my siblings married off, maybe I can make some for wedding thank-you’s!
To see a close up, go here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/socalledmommy/2242063395/
