November 4, 2008

Tree and Ladybug…

Another Cobble Hill Halloween came and went…A perfect Fall day for tricks and treats.

Ghosts of Halloween past…

Billy goat…

We’ve been thinking about Halloween lately, which conjured up thoughts about past years’ costumes. Sebastien always decides what he wants to be and then I am left with the mind boggling task of figuring out how to bring his often strange ideas to life. A lamb, a billy goat, this year it’s going to be a tree…I rely on imagination and resourcefulness, a cheap sewing machine, glue gun and lots of felt. My mother gets credit for the awesome “kitty sweater”, knit by hand. Maybe next year the boys will just opt to go out as ghosts.

Lamby…

Kitty in a tree…

Camera work

We gave Sebastien our old digital camera when we replaced it with a new Lumix DMC-TZ3. He takes really good pictures for a four year old. I’m really intrigued by the shots he takes of ceiling corners and floors. Maybe I’ll post some of them.

On another note, it was polka dot day at school, so we sewed a whole bunch of felt dots onto his shirt. Don’t think we’ll keep them though. We tend to gravitate more towards stripes in our family.

Looking through glass…

I think it was the first time he had ever seen a shark.

Cornell Box

Sebastien made this box during a visit to Mass Moca. We’ve made a couple more at home too. Use whatever you have around the house, photos, or find things from nature. Use a good strong glue.

Monkeying around skirt

The design of this skirt is simple, a two tiered ruffle with an elastic waistband. Would be cute with a cardigan, but my lack of little girl models in the house leaves only my imagination to wonder how it would look on. There was nothing I could do to persuade my boys to give it a try, but I don’t blame them either. The skirts were fun to make. The fabric came from repodepot, www.reprodepot.com.

Jellyfish

A visit to the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores was pretty cool.

potato stamps

A small project that filled an hour on a rainy afternoon, and with minimal mess factor. We used small red new potatoes because they are just the right fit for little hands, and well, it’s what we had in the house. The shapes were cut with a knife and we used a regular water soluble ink pad for the stamping. We stamped on paper, cards, even fabric, which came out really nice. When we finished, we just threw the stamps out. Hooray!

Sebi made this watercolor painting of the ocean while his brother was napping. Then he said we needed boats. We got the magnets that are holding up the boats from the Museum of Natural History. They are actually pieces of magnetic hematite that come in a bag. Very fun to play with but they do leave a strange black residue on your hands…I need to look into that some more.