white crayon and water color

white crayons can write secret messages on paper or simply provide a little relief

tracing paper

we have been having fun with tracing paper. so fun to see elke capture charles schultz's snoopy nose and seuss' bartholomew hat in all its beauty and sentiment.

Got this poem in the mail

My dear friend Rachel sent this poem in the mail for my 36th birthday

I taped it on the wall and want to read it every day.

I think typing poetry is even nicer than reading it.

The Summer Day

by Mary Oliver

Who made the world?

Who made the swan and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper. I mean-

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar from my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her ple forearmsand thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is/

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?

making paper dolls

I had fun drawing a girl in her bikini on bristol paper then tracing fashions on light text weight stock
We were inspired by paper dolls we got at the mingei museum by textile designer zandra rhodes


elke put her doll on a pony she drew


tate colored in the lines


eventually, we had too much fun!