pink postage

pink and red stamps

for pink and red hearts.

image via

xo

On the rocks

with blanket,

that's where you'll find me.

 via here.

Sealed with a Kiss

Yesterday we glued, sprinkled,

                   colored, scissored,

                   folded and painted 

               V A L E N T I N E S

                  to our heart's content.

          I was sad to see my friends go,

        yet after the glitter had settled,

I noticed a twinkling trail of sparkle out the studio door.

Blue Ice

It's a beautiful

clear icy blue

morning. 

Enjoy this day.

image via here

Ice Sculpture

This is the best project for a 

stretch of really cold weather.. 

which we haven't had YET.

But  boy, if we do.. we'll be trying this one out. 

 

These 4 year old's had a great time with it,

more images found here

Call Your Girlfriend

I don't know about you,
but every single time 
I watch these girls
I really wish
I was standing in that kitchen.

Perfecto.

Beehive window

Sam lined these gems up in our front window after Thursday's class.
She knew that I would love love love it.
Rows of foil hearts with tissue and gobs of glitter, 
small painted wooden hearts, 
and wood bases for clay faces.

And RED HOTS

Good Goods

For all you lovers in the world,
wool felt LOVE pillows.
Hot in the shop.

Big Paintings

color palette

       Our color palette this week,

big bursts of paintings are coming at ya... stay tuned.

ONE thing..

 taking risks 

takes practice

from EEP

Over the years I have been the lucky recipient to bits and pieces

from my Grandfather's (E. Edson Poler)

art supplies, kits, sketch books and things like that.

I adore this box of pastels, untouched, and had to share with you on this rainy day. 

I would have loved for him to visit my studio, pull up a stool and share his life with me. 
My Grandfather  would be 104 this month.

Marbling Magic

 

Adding the water based ink to the water bath, drop by drop,

aiming for the floating paper disc.

 

Carefully swirling the trails of ink on the water's surface.

 

Placing the paper on water's surface until it absorbs ink.

 

Pulling paper off  when edges have curled up.

We LOVE marbling at Beehive.

We explore this marbling method a couple of times a year,

and when we do, it is always a big huge favorite.

It is magical, the way the ink adheres to the paper via the waters surface. 

The children have control over how much ink and 

which color combinations they want to use.  

There's no telling what the print will look like, but it almost doesn't matter 

because the process to get there is over the moon.

Aitoh Boku-Undo Suminagashi marbling kit from here.