Day 67

Today's craft was just something I thought up out of the blue, and I have to say it was really relaxing.  I came home feeling like a zombie and after an hour of painting, I got my second wind.  It's like my brain cleared right out!

I have jewelry gift boxes laying around and decided to try a red and black checker pattern design for a future gift box.  The only thing I don't like about what I did was I did not tape off the lines, so the checker boxes are not straight, but other then that, I'm happy with the outcome!

Here it is finished:

Here is what it looked like before I got started:

I drew lines for the checker box pattern:

I did red and black every other box for the checker box pattern.  I need to touch up a bit once it's dry:

Day 34

I was stumped today so I asked Stan to help me do today's craft.  He got us started by painting a gift box black, adding a light to the top to make moonlight and added painted snow to the back wall and cotton batting for snow.  I came in and made the snowman out of papertowels, black paint for the buttons and hat and orange for the carrot nose.

This is our tribute to winter, who has been a true pain in the butt this past year, but who also supplied us with many gorgeous snowy nights.