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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Here we are in the middle of August, and the vacation island is about to end, well at least for two of my teens, one is starting school on Sunday (this is not a weekend day for us here in Israel, waaah) and the second a week later at the beginning of the Jewish month of Elul. It looks like my daughter won’t be starting back until after Succot, so likely in another 2 months or so, which means more time to work on photography (in addition to college entrance exams) and guitar, which she’s just picked up…
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How To Add A Dutch Door Cover Page To Your Sketchbook
In case anyone thought that filling a sketchbook was about page after page of blank canvases that are all the same, guess again, there are so many ways one can customize the pages of a sketchbook or journal by adding cutouts! Imagine that? I recently turned a page into a frame for the artwork underneath it, and one can do this in so many ways, with craft punches or simply using a craft knife and ruler, or, yes, quite simply scissors! Another way to customize a sketchbook or journal, and especially a bullet journal, is to work with the idea of the dutch door, namely cutting a page, or pages,…
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How To Draw A Camelia And Keep On Drawing Them And Drawing Them……
Want to draw something really quite simple and totally relaxing? Give this camelia (if that is what it is?) flower sketch a try, and if you are like me, you will not be able to stop drawing this flower! I first saw this fun flower on a greeting card that I shared in the features on craft schooling sunday, here, and since it was unlike the other flowers I’d drawn in my sketchbook, I thought I’d give it a try. And then I added a bunch of little leaves and branches, and voila, a whole page in my large sketchbook came to life! And then I drew more and more…
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A Peek In My Sketchbook: Simple Geometric Doodles
Simple geometric doodles that might also be called, in some cases, origami doodles, are so sweet, and perfect to practice in your sketchbook. Once you’ve mastered a simple doodle, such as a geometric pineapple, you can use it in so many ways. I’m picturing geometric pineapple placecards, gift tags, notes to kids in lunch bags, you name it! A folded paper airplane doodle is also really fun and useful, and while the origami crane doodle is a bit more difficult, that too can be used time and time again. So delve into geometric doodles, and enjoy, Ah yes, they’d be perfect for wrapping paper or decorating plain gift boxes as…
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Tips for Boosting Your Child’s Self-Confidence
Above: Build self esteem with crafts! We did this project above here,for Rosh HaShana, but it could be done anytime to send a basket full of wishes to friends and family! Building and nurturing a child’s self esteem is an often overlooked aspect of early childhood parenting, and yet it is so incredibly important! Studies have shown that self esteem can be established as early as 5 years old, according to the Washington Post, and parents as well as care givers play a very important rule in helping every child build the self-confidence that will serve them well for a lifetime. With just a bit of forethought, there are many…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Summer is in full swing, and since we are usually in the USA during this period, there is something I’ve discovered for the first time this year with my kids, and that is that teens are perfectly capable of making their own plans with friends for outings and even overnight trips, (here in Israel the country is small and bus travel is safe, so kids get used to traveling from north to south to visit family at a fairly young age, often with someone keeping an eye on them) so the anxiousness regarding what we will be doing…
