12/02/08: Joining FaceBook… and more ATCs

Well, I’ve finally joined the craze.  Come visit my FaceBook Profile for Katherine Lange Willson.

And here are my newest ATCs for Swap-Bot:

 

 

 

 

11/18/08: Art Lesson

I had another student over today for a private art lesson – her name is Gretchen and she was a student in my Paper Arts class last semester.  Gretchen has an amazing eye for color and design – these are two canvases that she’s been working on during the past few sessions:

For these canvases, she used handmade papers, scrapbook papers, ribbons, skeleton leaves, tags, quotes, embellishments and images. 

Thanks, Gretchen, for allowing me to photograph your canvases and post them here until you get your own blog!    Now make sure you submit these to those paper arts magazines we talked about!

11/08/08: Craft Day at friend’s church

I spent this morning with two of my greatest friends, Barbara & Karen, doing fun holiday craft projects at Karen’s church:

 

(That’s Karen on the left, Barbara in the middle, and me on the right)

Our 1st craft project was making candy trees, using plastic-wrapped individual candies, a styrofoam tree shape, and a glue gun. 

Our 2nd project was to take a set of 3 picture frames, remove the glass, insert a piece of Christmas-themed scrapbook paper, and glue on a painted letter to each frame.  Mine spelled out “JOY,” and I still need to paint the letters.  I’m hoping to finish it before the holidays so I can give it to my sister for Christmas.

Our 3rd project was making “marbled” glass orament bulbs.  I LOVED this project!  We simply squirted a few drops of 3 different acrylic paints into each of the glass bulbs, added some glitter, then set the glass bulbs back in their tray, rotating them 45 degrees every hour or so.  This was how it looked after a couple of days:

Our last project was learning how to adhere photocopied images to candles – WAYYYYY COOL!  All we needed was a pillar candle, a photocopied image, a piece of wax paper and a hair dryer.  We placed the photo face-forward on the candle, wrapped it with a single layer of wax paper, then heated the candle with the hair dryer until the wax melted through the photocopy and made it look as if it was actually printed on the candle!  I’ve got to take a photo still…

It was so fun hanging out with my best buds and doing crafts together.  This was my 2nd time coming to Karen’s church for this event, and I think I’d like to make it an annual tradition!

08/30/08: Michigan Wolverines vs. Utah Utes

Yeah, we lost.  That sucks big time, but how cool were my tailgate party invites?

01/28/08 – Surfin’ the web

I have no idea HOW I even stumbed upon this, but I’ve thoroughly wasted a half-hour at Ultimate Flash Face – try it, and see how addicting it can be to build the perfect face!

And because I just CAN’T get enough of playing with paper, I found this cool origami site that gives easy, step-by-step instructions via video.  I’m going to make the water lily and the butterfly – stay tuned for photos. 

Lastly, a YouTube video that amuses me to no end – a man playing piano with his balls – and no, it’s not what you think, you dirty-minded reader!  Make sure you stick with it ’til the end – the grand finale IS grand! 

 He’s got some mighty fine competition from THIS man’s balls.   And THESE men’s feet.   

Okay, too much web surfing today – time to do some work.