Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Inside Play on Rainy Days

Lately, we've had some quite inclement weather, lots of 'fuzzy' rain and chilly days and that has led to more inside time.

And here are a couple of the things Phoebe has been doing. We have some beautiful 'STOCKMAR' watercolour paints and nice paper for Phoebe to create paintings with. These paints come in an intense concentrate in tiny bottles and are diluted with water in small jars. Here she has brought inside a beautiful Monarch butterfly, which she found dead on the ground in the garden and is noticing the different patterns and colours the butterfly has and is trying out a butterfly with dark "Monarch" edges.

Another of Phoebe's inside pastimes is to create necklaces. She really appreciates the lovely beads she is given and spends hours (lots of focus!) deciding their order and then threads them up. All her (toy) friends have at least 1 beautiful beaded creation made by Phoebe.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Phoebe's Tree Mural

Inspired by an article in the July 2008 edition of Your Home and Garden magazine which showed a beautiful girl's bedroom with a giant wallpaper tree, I decided Phoebe's bedroom might enjoy being given a painted version...Wendy style... had to have a nest, Mummy...oh, and a butterfly and a Mother bird and a Daddy...

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

My Wheelbarrow from Huhana is Pink - ROOLLY Pink!

Sometime ago, Huhana gave Phoebe a lovely wooden wheelbarrow she'd found along the way...it just needed a bit of TLC. Finally Phoebe's Dad has found the unique solution to the rotten barrow in an old drawer bolted on instead - PERFECT! And today it had to be made pretty...PINK, of course!