DAYS 25-29 CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day 29-I love this old olive oil can and this old book. Put them together and "Voila!"


A house!




















Day 28-Just a fun drawing with gel pens on black paper.

Day 27-A fun drawing in my mini-sketch book.

Day 26-June 26th was my husband and my 40th wedding anniversary. So the home for today is The House of the Lord-the temple-the most important house of all! Here we are 40 years ago. Day 25-Here are my birds looking for a new home in the want ads in the Nester's Journal since papa bird shrunk their old home.

DAYS 23 AND 24-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

This is the month we celebrate the birthdays of three granddaughters, two children and our anniversary.
Today our daughter was visiting with her two children and we celebrated her darling daughter Robyn's birthday with a cake, gifts, bubbles and sidewalk chalk. Here is Robyn.
Day 24-Here is my house for today, drawn with sidewalk chalk and a little help from our granddaughter Emma.

Here's the budding artist. Doesn't she have the most beautiful blue eyes? Robyn has blue eyes too but they are overpowered by her Shirley Temple curls!

Day 23 House-"Honey, I shrunk the birdhouse!" I didn't make the birdhouse but I did make the birds!

DAY 20, 21 AND 22-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day 22-I started a set of notecards using the wacky house idea. They are a lot of fun.

Day 21-We had soup and crackers for dinner. The crackers didn't make it into my mouth.Day 20-My first notecard.

Day 19-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

I did this drawing in my little journal during church. It's a good thing I got it done then because we've been on the phone most of the day with family since it's Father's Day. Thanks for calling everyone! (Two more days of creating homes and it will be 21 days. I read somewhere that if you do something for 21 days in a row it becomes a habit!)

Our peonies are finally in bloom. I brought these giant blooms in the house so we can enjoy them.

Days 16, 17 and 18 CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Saturday, June 18th. This wacky house looks like it's in the middle of the ocean and rocking on a stormy sea which is about what I feel like today. I have a horrible headache and back pain so it was a miracle I even got this done. When I looked at it I thought, "Ha! That house looks exactly how I feel!" Friday's house--I finally finished another square of my hooked house pillow. Believe me, these are not fun, especially when one is allergic to wool! Only one more to go.

Thursday's house turned out fun! I love these wacky houses. No worries about matching anything. Unmatched makes for more wacky!

Day 15-CREATING A HOME EVERDAY

Wow! It is only 1:10 in the afternoon and I already have my home for today finished and I'm posting it on my blog! All I can say is that these wacky houses are fun and easy. Hope you like it!

Day 14-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day 14-Today I decided I could sew up a house quilt block in a manageable time frame. I decided to look on line to see if there were any patterns. I found a picture of a quilt that was done as a block exchange. All the houses were "wacky houses." I decided I likes that idea and promptly designed and made a "wacky house" block. These are way fun because they can be as wacky as I want. I paper pieces it which didn't work everywhere so I ended up having to turn some edges under and sew it by hand. The background fabric is fabric I have had for years! It's blue sky with clouds and spider webs of all things. I will probably design lots more wacky houses and make more squares (they are eight inch squares) because I can always make them into a quilt for one of my nine granddaughters.

Day 12 and 13-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day 13-Junk mail houses

Day 12-I realized today that I don't have to (and can't!) do big projects everyday. I took care of my grandchildren this weekend and had to do a quick project. Fortunately I have a book called The Joy of Origami which has directions for, and preprinted paper for a myriad of origami projects. I thought to myself, "I bet that origami book I have has directions for an origami house." Hooray, I was right! Easy, peasy-an origami house! (Gives me an idea to someday do another one using plain paper and draw my own inside and outside-someday when I have more time!)

Day 11-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

I finally finished the second house on my wool hooked pillow. I think these need to be week long projects. I can't expect to get finished in a day or even two with everything else that is going on. I forgot how long it takes to do one of these!

Here' s how the two of them look together.

Day 10-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Yesterday was our granddaughter Lillee's second birthday. We went to her party where she had a wonderful time with her friends. She loved all of her gifts, even her clothes!

And everyone loved the cake!

Especially Lillee!

I tried my hardest to get my hooked pillow house done but I couldn't finish it. In the wee hours of the morning on the tenth I did a rough sketch of an idea to draw a house on a paint sample card so in lieu of anything better for my making a home a day project, here's a picture of that sketch! (At least I haven't missed a day!)

Day 8 and 9-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day 9-Well, this house on my pillow took me longer than I thought it would. I worked on it yesterday and today. Thank goodness I went to the thrift store yesterday and bought myself a house! A barn, actually. So for Day 8 I took a picture of my new house.

Part of the reason I didn't get much done on my house for the pillow design is that I worked on getting our garden planted. I planted snow peas, radishes, tomatoes, zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, basil, and thyme. Believe it or not we have a perennial carrot garden. My husband decided to do an experiement to see if the carrots would reseed themselves. They did and for the last 2 years we have had volunteer carrots. Enough for the neighborhood. We had to dig up part of them so we would have room for our new things. We also have chives and green onions that return every year. It is practically the middle of June and just now getting warm enough so that we don't have to worry about the tomatoes freezing. And our lilacs are just blooming. Crazy weather!

Day 7-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

This is my artwork for today, the beginning of a five day post. I decided to make a wool hooked pillow, about 20 inches square. Today's home is the design for the pillow. On each of the next four days I will hook one house. (That's the plan anyway, we'll see how long it takes me to hook one house!)

Day 5 and 6-CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

Day Five-I watched my grandchildren over the weekend and Sunday night realized I hadn't done my house for the day. I actually tried to make house shaped pancakes for my granddaughters but it was a failure. So I tried to make a house shaped toast snack. Here's the result.

Day Six-Okay, 10:00 p.m. again. Out came the silverware. I'm having fun even though some of these are 5 minute jobs!

CREATING A HOME EVERYDAY

A couple of weeks ago I went to Barnes and Noble and found a book titled A Daily Creativity Journal-Make Something Everyday and Change Your Life by Noah Scalin. I decided I needed something to do so I bought the book and decided that starting June 1 I would design and make a house everyday thus my theme: Creating a Home a Day. I've always loved making a home so thought this theme would be fitting. At first I thought I wouldn't be able to make a different home everyday but I can't sleep at night for thinking of ideas. Anyway, I started and so far am on schedule. The houses above are pieced but not quilted. I framed them for a gift for my cousin Carolyn. The four houses sewn together finish at 5 inches by 7 inches so those pieces are tiny!







House #2 is made from an empty Cheerios box. Carolyn and her sister Linda came over for Carolyn's birthday and we all got involved in my house a day project.














Mine, Carolyn's and Linda's houses

Houses Day 3-I like to draw on envelopes and then when I write to my grandkids I send my letters in my illustrated envelopes. The "flying houses" are address and return address spaces obviously.

When I went to photograph my envelopes for day 3 I realized that with the flap open an envelope looks like a house. So for day 4 an envelope house! (My photography is bad-I guess I am going to have to get better but I typed the word roof for the roof, window for the windows, etc.)