DAYS 47-55 CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

It's been awhile since I've posted any houses. I've been having the time of my life with my sons and grandchildren. See the previous posts for details of that experience!

Day 55-I created a small wool felted house. It's a bit wacky like my cards and quilt squares. I really want to start creating something a little different!
Day 54-This one is different. Day 52's houses all lined up in a row stationery was so boring. I went a little crazy with my house stamp and created this. I call it "Wild Houses Can't Keep Me Away." I really like getting wild and crazy. Must do it more often!

Day 53-I really didn't like the boring house stationery so made this one a little more crazy and added some lines and detail. Looks too much like my wacky houses.

Day 52-The boring houses in a row stationery.

Day 51-I drew a picture of what I imagined it would look like to look in the window of a rich person's house.Day 50-My granddaughter Jordan drew this picture of a house. She's eight. Isn't it great!

Day 49-My grandson Cameron made this encaustic collage of a haunted house. It's fun to use guest artists to help me out!

My granddaughter Breana made this encaustic collage as a gift for her mom.

This is Jordan's encaustic collage. These three are my oldest grandkids and they did a great job. I didn't even have wax all over my kitchen!

Day 48-Guest artist Breana made this card.

Day 47-Guest artist Jordan loved making house cards. Here are three that she created. Thanks for sharing, Jordan!

FAMILY TIME!

Our son from Arizona visited us for a week and we had a wonderful time. He brought his wife and two kids and also our oldest granddaughter. We got together with our other son who lives close and his wife and two girls (our oldest granddaughter is his daughter). The eleven of us had a great time. Our activities included a day at our town's new water park. Here is our son and our only grandson swimming in the lazy river.
We also had a great time playing hide and seek in our backyard. We played hide and go seek, had picnics in the backyard and got out the croquet set. Here is our granddaughter in one of our yard's hiding places.We also went to Fat Cats our local entertainment center where we bowled and played miniature golf in the dark (isn't this place cool!) and had pizza and soda.

One day we went to the zoo where a favoriate activity was feeding and brushing the goats and watching the zoo personnel feed the penguins.

Here's our son and his wife at the zoo.

We actually had half of our grandchildren during the week. Here they are at the zoo.

We also did crafts (for more crafts we did check out the Creating A Home Everyday entry). We decorated flip flops and water bottles.

Thank you Jared and Veronica for using your vacation time to visit! Please come again. It was so much fun! And Jared, thanks for using your vacation time to help solve our computer problems! And thanks for bringing B. I know you were crowded! We love you!

Days 45 and 46-CREATING A HOME A DAY

Day 46-I created a pop up card out of card stock and collaged magazine cut outs. It's my dream cottage in the woods.
Day 45-I drew a basic house then made an M.C. Escher type design using graph paper. This is harder than it looks. I had to start in the middle and work out. It was fun. Someday I will try it again using a different house shape.

I may not be posting for a while (is that one word or two?) because my son and daughter-in-law and three grandchildren are coming to visit from Arizona. We are going to have fun!

Day 44-CREATING A HOME A DAY

Day 44-I made a one inch square piece of art called an "inchie." It's a collage of a house backed by a small piece of an old print I made then glued cut out pictures on.

Days 38-43 CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day 43-I was lazy and hungry today so I created a house shaped tortilla. Had to hurry and take a picture of it so I could eat it!
Day 42-Another wacky house block for my "someday I'll finish it" quilt. But with creating a home everyday for a year I should finish sometime in the next 10 1/2 months. I figure I need about 32 blocks to make a decent sized quilt. I have 6 done, 26 more to go!

Day 41-"Honey, I love the house but it is much too small!"

Day 40-Another card to add to my collection. Except they keep disappearing. I keep using them!

Day 39-I have had this house in one dimension as part of an ad for forever. I copied it on card stock, cut on the solid lines, folded on the dotted lines and this is how it turned out!

Day 38-The 5th quilt block in my wacky quilt series.

DAYS 30-36 CREATING A HOME A DAY

Day 30-I was exhausted this day so I got out of bed and drew a picture of my dollhouse with my eyes closed. I didn't peek at all. This is what I got.Sorry I haven't posted for a while. I was out of town attending my niece's wedding and reception. Here is the lovely bride and her family. (What can I say, they are a bunch of goofballs!)The bride and groom's first dance as a married couple.
Day 31-I decided to use this picture for my house for day 31. It's actually not the whole house but just a part of the reception center. I think the picture turned out cool with the reflection of the mountains in the window.

Day 32-The day after my niece's wedding we were able to share in the joy of another neice's first trip to the temple with her fiance. The temple is the house for day 32.Day 33-I lost the card I made for day 33. I'll post it when I find it. This M&M house is for Day 34.

Day 35-Another house card, this one a long rectangle. Day 36-A matching envelope.