September Craft Digest: A Family Affair

All three of us got our craft on last month. The first rainy Saturday we spent making rubber stamps for our Letterboxing obsession.

AC did the actual carving.

Here Sam makes us a model for the butterfly stamp she wanted:

My tulle tutus for Sam’s little “magical dress-up” birthday party. Try saying “tulle tutus” twenty times. (No, I didn’t make twenty. Just five.)

And felt capes. No sewing required!

Sam made a cape too– for one of her bears.

And a shirt for her baby doll, Ginny.

Gosh it suddenly seems like I’ve been running a sweatshop.

But there was also drawing and writing:

And more writing:

Sam’s working on E’s here. Apparently she decided to write out the title of a book we’d been reading, Edward in Deep Water, by Rosemary Wells. When the W proved tricky, she wrote an M, cut it out, and then taped it upside down next to the E. I applauded her problem-solving skills and then offered to show her how to write a W. “No, thanks, Mom,” she said. “I got it figured out.”

Finally, there was body art.

That’s not nail polish or paint on her toes. Just regular old felt-tip marker. Which in the end comes off a lot easier than nail polish! Yeah, she’s got that figured out too.