Pink }{ The March Equinox Project

Finally I get to pink... Honestly, we have so much pink around this house due to a certain little miss that I was in no hurry to go off and find pink out in nature right now. 

Do you have girls in your house? Are your kids so very much into a favorite color? How do you deal with it?

But I'm running out of colors!

I started this project with the intent of taking/posting pictures for one color each week from March 20 to June 20. Now I'm realizing that it's actually not the best way to approach this. Instead of posting a collage every week, it might be best to take the pictures, but wait until the end to have a post with a compilation collage of all the colors. I might start posting the weekly collages in my flickr pool instead.

Have you ever done a series like this? How did you approach it?

Vacation, had to get away

I've been away now for a while, visiting family. Where my mom lives, internet connections are very, very slow. But I figured I had to share at least some pictures of the trip so far. 

Can you guess where we are? If you know me fairly well, that's an easy answer. 

I hope everyone's having a wonderful new year so far.

N. at the beach with tio Erick (my big brother)

Relaxing in the pool after the beach 

My cousin's pet - a very talkative parrot 

The backyard at the beach house 

Some flowers my husband really liked

The beach

Crabs at the beach. We eat them like this, yikes.

N. and her cousin on a kid sized VW Beetle. They didn't actually drive it, but there was an 8-year old boy driving it before.

This is what a cashew fruit looks like for those who don't know it.  

My 18 month old nephew. He was eating some fruit, that's why his mouth is lopsided.

N.'s ice cream one night.

Monkey statue at the beach house

Feathered friends and flowers

I got my tombow pen in the mail last night, so today I decided to go back and try out Carla Sonheim's technique again. Last time I tried it, I ended up with some cute watercolor bunnies that N. and I made together. Still, I wanted to try out the real thing.

So I did it with my little feathered friend below.

I'm pretty happy with the results. I'll definitely be using this technique again.

Moving right along...

My copy of this month's Do It Yourself magazine came in the mail a couple of days ago. I always browse through it for inspiration, and this month I loved the article about making garlands with old book pages. Of course I got to work on it right away.

I painted them with a light watercolor wash to add some fun colors but still get the writing and page textures to come through.

Then I made the garland:

I liked this project, but it's not something I could do with the little one. She doesn't yet have the patience and the fine motor skills for folding the paper. But if you have older kids, this might be perfect.

Where have you found your inspiration lately?