Today’s three Write-Along words: lunch, sparrow, and office supplies See below for details, and remember this all about process, not product. Feel free to tweak the tense of the word! ******************************************************* The plan: 1. Each week, I will choose three words from the jar. 2. I’ll post the three words here and on the Red…
Red Bird Crafts Write-Along
Today’s three Write-Along words: flown loop celebrate See below for details, and remember this all about process, not product. Oh, and feel free to tweak the tense of the word. My contribution: Memory: My grandparent’s house in Mattapoisett, MA It is a blur of Christmas lights, celebration dinners, trundle beds, Aim toothpaste (looks like a…
Red Bird Crafts Write-Along
This is my jar of words. One of my current big projects has me spending a lot of time with my jar of words, which is a good thing because jars of words are fun. All of my time spent with the jar made me think that it would be fun if we all spent…
Journals
These are some of my favorite hand made journals. They are from one of my classes.
Workshop Notes :: Relief Printing
Last Thursday, the children in my Creative Journaling workshop experimented with relief block printing. I made the orange kitty for demonstration purposes and plunked her down in the middle of the table. Once I saw her, I decided that I love her little head tilt and arched back. I wasn’t able to see her personality…
XOXO
I wish you a day full of color and cheer.Consider giving yourself a valentine by thinking about the things, activities, and experiences that fill your heart. The children in my creative journaling class discovered that their hearts are a big eclectic mix filled with things like whipped cream, fuzzy socks, lemonade, trees, popcorn, the ocean,…
workshopping !
These are photographs from Thursday’s Creative Journaling workshop. During each workshop, the children will learn a new artistic technique and also work on an experimental writing exercise. During the eight weeks, we will practice lots of different, unique writing styles, and by doing so, the hope is that everyone learns what kind of journal…
h o u s e s
I once had a dream about a little neighborhood of houses just like this. The houses were on a river, though, and I was stuck on the opposite side. This was like 14 years ago, but I was keeping a dream journal at the time, so it is forever preserved on paper (at least…
small and big things
Life has felt unsettled and surreal over the past week as we care for my very sick Nanny. I’ve been sitting a lot. Holding my Nanny’s hand. Singing with her. Reading the same page in the same book. Remembering. Pacing. Taking small bites. And, now I’m back home in Massachusetts feeling a bit distant from…
composition
A few evenings ago I remade another $1.09 composition notebook. This time, I used a brown paper bag, a page from an old book, and some scraps of paper to cover and decorate it. Along with learning to make my own deodorant and discovering that I have a hidden hair cutting talent which has resulted…
covered
This fancy little number is really just a plain old $1.09 composition book in disguise. I read about this technique in an old Martha Stewart Living magazine a couple of years ago, and finally decided to try it out. The key players in this project are the glue stick, book binding tape, x-acto knife, and…
story starter game
Lately, I have been thinking about story telling and how it seems to be the gateway to highly imaginative and intricate play. I watch Chick create fantasy worlds where nothing but torn pieces of paper become the characters from the last play she saw or a chapter from a book, and it helps me to…
