Making Monday: Kool Aid Yarn Dyeing

Learn how from Knitty.

Massive Knit Tag

During the move it became very clear just how much craft materials we have acquired, we also have a very ugly large pipe right in front of the washer and dryer. So the answer to both was knit a giant knit tag!

The installation went quite well and now I have something fun to look at and less yarn. Wins all around.

Welcoming Ourselves Back :)

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Making Monday: Bunting

Handmade custom bunting to replace crepe paper.  Easy and reusable.

Selling Color

This piece sold recently and our proposal for Northern Spark 2013 was accepted.  More information on that to follow, but make sure to check us out at the Festival.

Making Monday: Paper Chains

Our crafty young people were very creative with a paper chain project making them into hats, scarves, and very silly earrings.  This group is all over the color wheel with their choices, which is great to see.

Crafty Kids

Our crafty rock stars hard at play.  Today, we should find out about a proposal we sent in.  Waiting for the outcome is usually the hardest part.

Making Monday: Sculpture Play

These things will someday soon become a cool outdoor sculpture.  Many a good time to be had working on it.

Climbing Photos

Submitted photos for Rock Art II to exhibit at a festival in North East. These are the ones that made the cut.

Making Monday: Fortress

Every year, around this time, we do something we don't usually do.  This year, we built a blanket fort in the dining room.

May Day Parade Tomorrow!

 
Come down and see the May Day Parade, travel down Bloomington Ave. and into Powerhorn Park. Parade starts at 1 and the Ceremony at Powderhorn starts around 3.

POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT SUNDAY (MAY 13)!

Table Flower

Monster picked up this flower after volunteering with an art project and put it into a handmade bowl on our table. Hopefully, the water will keep it going for as long as we need it to.

Sanctuary

We have been at this hospital too many times this year. This time I left the waiting room to take a picture in the sanctuary. It was just what I needed.

Making Monday: Watercolor Crayon

Draw with crayon on white piece of paper. Paint on top of drawing with watercolors. Impress 1st and 2nd grade students. Encourage them to create something given the same tools.

Making Monday: Clay Things

Finished projects from the throwing class taken this winter.

Making Monday: Hankies!

We have once been plagued with the colds of the children we work with. And so...

We made more hankies, to keep up with the demands of our noses!

Etsy

We have updated the etsy shop! The cards are now on sale, and we have a very cool new knit starfish pin for sale too, check it all out here.

And if you are in the Twin Cities area check out the earrings, scarfs and cards we have at Banfill-Locke and if you go before March 3, they have an amazing exhibit up of kids's art.

Making Monday: CAKE!

We made a very simple yellow cake this weekend, with vanilla frosting. It was so simple that I managed to make at least one mistake in almost every step. The real kicker of the mess ups was adding 3.5 tbsp of powdered sugar instead of 3.5 tsp of baking powder. All mistakes where caught and the cake ended quite well, with a celebratory decoration, reminding us that we are, in fact, functioning people. Hurray for cake, celebrations, and fixed mistakes.

Vegan Adventure Part 2

Due to unforeseen circumstances we will not be able to be vegan this month, we have postponed to next month. So stay tuned for next months Vegan Adventure Take 2. In the mean time please enjoy a picture of test tiles for glazes.

Making Monday: "Hello" cards

I have been working on a series of Hello cards. I designed a pattern for myself and have been knitting the little signs using sock yarn remnants, and then gluing them onto card stock. They look quite quite and will soon be on the etsy shop!