(after twenty some odd years!) This was meant for my daughter at age four or five. I've had it tucked away with all my old yarn for all this time--while my children grew, while we went about working, playing, feelings passing, people passing, troubles troubling--and there it sat. I couldn't help but think about all the time that had passed between one row and the next...
Now it's a skirt for my granddaughter who's seven. She'll be wearing it for Halloween this year as a gypsy.
We've had these dinning room chairs given to us close to twenty years ago. We've recovered the seats a handful of times, but looking at them, I realized they needed more than new seat covers! I have some very old paint--(in fact the cans started leaking from the bottoms from prying them open--what a mess!) First I sanded, just to rough up the wood, I primed them with some old white paint, then used some red and turquoise paint. (all three cans were leaking from their rusted bottoms)
I did use some spray paint--that was fun except when one can refused to stop spraying!! The material came from a former sewing student of mine, she contributed a fair amount to our class' cloth bin years ago, so thank you to her! They are kind of wild, but we like them.
Professor McGonagall looking over the parapet like edge of a flower pot--(posed and taken by my granddaughter)
Lucius and his son Draco lurking behind a boulder--up to no good of course...
My granddaughter posed her Malfoy clothespin dolls and took all these pictures.
"Harry Potter!" said the creature in a high pitched voice. "So long has Dobby wanted to meet you sir...Such an honor it is..."
Looks like they're bound and gagged--could be part of the story--but this is how we glue on their hair.
It was only a matter of time before we (my granddaughter and I) thought of making the Harry Potter clothespin characters--Here's Firenze--he needs a bow and a quiver of arrows.
A large street cleaner came rumbling along, drove over the art work, then slowly wet and scrubbed the street--river lets of chalk running into the gutter. It seemed like this was a part of the art, a finishing touch for them all--some, I liked better with the added water and scrub.
It's interesting that the 3D effect with chalk art, works so much better in a photograph. In person I didn't see this drawing stand out like it does in this photo.
We were late in viewing these on the last day of the festival--almost too late as my next post will show...
Done! I'll send this out after it's good and dry. Very bold and bright, this one.
Here's the total line up of Harry Potter characters, drawn by my granddaughter--I had to take their picture once again--I love these guys!
It was the evening before the Children's Craft Fair, and you'd think that we 'd had enough making of lots and lots of things. We stepped out to hear some free music at the San Luis Obispo Mission,but littered all over the ground were these purple tubular flowers which had fallen and were still falling from the nearby trees.
Of course more color was needed!
Then bubbles!
