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Aussie painting & baby’s painting debut

On Thursday we celebrated Australia Day! So for painting day this week we tried aboriginal dot painting.

I traced a kangaroo for Master D to use and gave him some washable finger paint. Before he started we looked at different photos of aboriginal art for inspiration.

Master D enjoyed the feel of the paint on his fingers and before long he started mixing the colours together. Painting with his hands and mixing the colours seem to be his favourite parts of painting!

It was also Little Miss Q’s painting debut – she tried finger painting!! Little Miss Q is now 7 months and I was inspired by Happy Little Munchkins (a fellow Aussie blogging mum) to give it a go 🙂

I was surprised at how fun it was for Little Miss Q… and the clean-up wasn’t as terrible as expected either. I was able to easily wipe away the washable paint.

Mind you, she did try eating her painting midway through (what is it about paper for her!)

Happy painting, Kelly

January 27, 2012 by

Inking tea cups

A while ago Husband of Mine gave me a seriously wonderful anniversary present. It was a tea set for two, with a little tea pot and milk jug. Each item had a gorgeous quote from Anne of Green Gables inked and fired on it by Zinnea Pea.

Inked by Zinnea Pea

I love this tea set with its lovely quotes… here are a couple

‘It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?‘
‘…if you let me tell you what I image about myself you’d find it a lot more interesting‘ 
(I’ll let you in on a secret though… I organised this pressie for him to give to me! He doesn’t trawl through Etsy after all!)

After Master D made his painted plates I got to thinking… I could ink tea cups with lovely quotes that my friends would love (well hopefully!). So two friends of mine who both celebrate January birthdays, and who both enjoy Jane Austen received a personalised tea cup inked by me 🙂

Inked by Kelly!

For A… ‘A women, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can‘

For B… ‘A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of‘. 

To do the inking I used DecoColour opaque paint markers (next time I will buy the ‘fine’ ones), and because I’ve noticed that it isn’t hard to chip or smudge the ceramic paint off I ‘fired’ them in my oven at 50°C for a few hours. They will still need to be hand washed gently, but hopefully this way they will last a bit longer.

So guess what most of my family and friends will be receiving this year!

Happy crafting, Kelly

January 22, 2012 by