The Krafty Mommy

Ohk so there are so many ways to do paintings with these 3 ingredients out there that I wasn't sure which one to try :/ So I decided we will try them all..so we can put it to rest which one gives the best results. All you need for Take One... Clear glue Watercolors Table salt Watercolor paper Paint brushes And of course a krafty toddler! :) So for take One, this is what we did... 1. We dropped the clear glue all around the watercolor paper. You can do a meaningful pattern or just abstract. We left it to dry completely. 2. I got my kiddo to paint all over the dried, glue dripped paper with generous amounts of paints n water. The trick is to have it really wet. 3. Then I got her to sprinkle the salt on the wet paint anyway she pleased.  R. And that's it. The salt soaked up the wet paint and crystallized giving a starburst effect the the painting. So in this technique, the glue just forms a pattern underneath the pai...

Very often we find ourselves (including me) make this excuse for not crafting..."Where's the Time?" And now that I have started on my blog and the facebook page (a lil more actively), a lot of my friends are actually wondering "HOW?" and calling me "SuperMOM". Well I've been there, so I thought I'd share my feelings with you'all. It was months ago that one of my friends also on maternity leave (like myself) discussed the topic of blogging with me. And the only unknown there was - "about what?". We aren't really whiz women or professors of any sort that we could enlighten the world with something new. But it is not about new. Nor enlightenment.  The crafting bug has forever resided deep inside of me. I just brought it out at times, played with the little thing and then imprisoned it again deep down inside. It made me happy when it was out. But I never could find the time to let it free. But if we do not have time to do ...