Category Archives: craft

The Barbie Cake

The Barbie Cake
The Barbie Cake

This is a continuation of yesterday’s post. This happened during the covid quarantine. For some reason, I didn’t post much. I double checked.

But here’s my girl, icing away for her mama for Mother’s Day:

Can you read the message?
The stage is set
The family arrives
This is for you!

It was a Happy Mother’s Day in my mother’s house!

Once Upon a Time…

Once Upon a Time…

My granddaughter, Vivien was quite the little baker! She learned her mother had always wanted a Barbie cake, so she set out to make her one. She was 6 years old. Here’s a photo journal of the feat. She had very little help from me.

We made the skirt from 2 cake mixes, one baked in a bowl, and sat upon another, baked in a bundt pan.

To be continued…

Playing with Air Play

Playing with Air Play
Playing with Air Play

Tonight, I am trying to watch a video course from domestika.org on my tv. I have a Roku stick in a Visio tv.

The course is on composition in graphic design. I open my domestika app, and find my course. I click play on the chapter I wish to watch, and these icons appear:

Note the little tv icon with a triangle at the bottom (circled in magenta here.) Tap that icon and this appears for me.

I choose Roku Rocky because that’s the name I gave the Roku stick in this room:

I push play, again, on my phone and look what appears on my screen!

I have the Domestic app pre-set for English subtitles and voice over. Most presenters are Brazilian.

Here are other photos of my tv screen during the playing of the video course:

My presenter’s name is Javier Alcaraz.

It is much easier to watch on tv than my phone!

Tying up loose ends

Tying up loose ends
Tying up loose ends

I did a lot of cleaning today, so when I got to sit down, I fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was almost time for Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage. I needed something to work on while I watched.

I got out these unfinished dish cloths and a huge tapestry needle.

After two hours of tv, I had both knitted dish cloths finished.

Tying up the loose ends on this crocheted rag of many colors, however, is going to take me a couple of full length movies!

Pages

Pages
Pages

The collage prompts for May, in “Makers of Mixed Media Art/Artists,” are

Branches A label

An arrow Scribbles

Food

Now, I have an idea in mind, but last night I was playing with an app called, “Pages.”

I set it to graphics and searched for each of the prompts. I chose the first result that appealed to me.

The optional theme is, “still life,” so I chose a table to put things on. Then I chose a background.

The app layers things in the order you choose them. Moving things is easy. You click on the object and dots appear in the corners. You can use them to move objects and change their sizes.

To change layers you click the object, choose the paintbrush icon at the top, and a slider appears. I needed to move the background to the very back, of course, so I slid the slider all the way to the “back.” I “layered” all my objects using the slider.

This is what I arranged:

I saved to photos and used photo editing to crop and add my tiny signature:

This may be the app I need to replace Microsoft Picture It.

Still Blue.

Still Blue.
Still Blue.

Yep. I had high hopes for this. I pulled paint from the plate with dogwood blossoms.

I added little green speckles with the blossom centers. Then I pulled the print with white paint and wet-strength tissue.

Disaster.

I tried to patch it with a brush, and pulled again with some of the leftover blue paint from yesterday.

I used plain copy paper this time.

It started with promise but ended a dud. Yes, I am still blue.

Am I Blue?

Am I Blue?
Am I Blue?

You bet I am. I thought my friend, Loretta, and sister-in-law, Pam, were having a paint party tonight at 7:00. No, it was at 11:00 this morning. They finally got in touch with me, and I got there in time to paint this.

Actually, I only painted the upper portion. I brought my dollop of unused paint home with me and painted the lower portion.

I even had enough to partially cover this.

I hate to waste paint.