The Fabulous Book of Paper Dolls

I got to sleep late this morning thanks to my school being closed for President's Day, and then my mom had to find things to keep me entertained on my day off.

We started off by going to see Barbie in Mermaid Tale 2 at the Studio Movie Grill and afterwards, Mom was nice enough to stop by Jo Ann's Crafts on the way home to buy me a new art project.

I selected this The Fabulous book of Paper Dolls by Julie Collings. And to my Mom's delight, I was entertained and occupied by the book for at least an hour. I designed a Bride and Groom at their wedding with their two babies. I told my Mom that the Bride had the two babies at her wedding.

Mom said that didn't sound like much fun for the bride, but I'm not sure what she meant by that. It seems fun to me.

I created an ice skating paper doll too.

The book comes with 6 paper people and piles of punch-out clothes, shoes, hats, crowns and other accessories. I liked it so much that I'm going to buy a few more to give my friends as birthday presents.

Happy paper doll making.

Love, Zoe

Happy Birthday to My Very Artful Dad

I realized today it's been almost a year since I posted on my art blog. I "dropped-out" of my art class, so I haven't been focused on art. OK, I didn't really drop out. The class ended and I decided to take-up some different hobbies instead of signing up for a new art class. I'm now taking horseback riding and ice skating lessons.

I suppose you could say there is an art to both of those hobbies, but I'll also see what I can do about coming up with some more artwork to blog about in the near future. For now, I'll leave you with a photo of my Dad's birthday cake. While I didn't make the cake myself, I did choose it at the bakery and there is definitely a lot of art that goes into cake decorating ... just watch a few episodes of the Cake Boss. Happy Birthday Dad!

Watercolor of Israel

This week in art class, we painted pictures of buildings using watercolors. I decided to paint a picture of buildings in Israel and since I haven't yet visited Israel, my teacher told me what the buildings should look like.

My Mommy likes my painting so much, she says she is going to frame it. I think it turned out really well too : )

Happy Mother's Day!

Love Zoe

Glitter Art from JoAnn Fabric & Craft Store

My school is closed for almost 2 weeks for Passover so my Ema has been busy trying to keep me entertained.

I wanted to share with you a fun ... and according to Ema ... cheap project that we did earlier this week.



My Ema found it in the Busy Kids Camp stuff at JoAnn Fabric and Craft store and it only cost around $1 per pack.

Each pack comes with a picture and several packets of glitter. You just pull off the tape on the picture and sprinkle glitter on the sticky area to fill in the design.
I made an elephant and a bird and I saved another elephant and bird for my Ema to make later.

Since the glitter packets are so small, we poured each one into a small bowl and I used my fingers to sprinkle glitter where I wanted it to go.

One important lesson we learned is that you should only pull off the tape on the area where you are working because if you pull off all the tape at once, your glitter gets all mixed up and your picture turns out crazy.

I totally recommend this project for anyone looking for something to do during spring or summer break.

But as with most of my art projects, it does get a bit messy so you should probably put a piece of paper underneath your picture and maybe even on the floor.

Happy glittering and have a great weekend.

Love, Zoe

My Passover Art

So I promised you I was working on something special recently for Passover and here is the finished products.

First is my custom, handmade Afikomen bag that we'll use tonight at the Seder. My Aba and Ema will hide a piece of Matzah in my bag and I'll have to find it later. I'm really proud of the beautiful flowers and my lovely writing on the bag.

Next, is my Seder plate, which I hand painted and you can't see it very well in the pictures but I glued the symbolic foods on the back of the plate so you can see them through the plate. My teacher left strict instructions with my Ema that the plate can't be used for food and it can't be washed so my Ema displayed it in our dining room so everyone who comes to our Seder tonight will see it. I'm really proud of it as well.

Finally, the last photo is a collection of Passover art I've made over the years.

The red one is a Matzah cover that will use tonight during the Sedar and the green one is my Afikomen bag from last year. As you can probably see, I'm really progressed as an artist since last year

Have a wonderful Passover if you're included to celebrate that kind of thing and I'll be back with more fun art after I've caught up on my sleep from the Seders.

Art everywhere at my recent debut in a Pesach play

From my great costume to the powerful way I delivered my one line, my recent performance in a Passover play at my school is truly a work of art.

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Fun spinning art with the Rotator Painter

Last year for my birthday, a friend gave me this wonderful Rotator Painter set. It's a bit messy so my Ema only lets me get it out on special occassions, and this past Sunday was special because my cousin Ayla came over to play.

We took turns making wonderful spinning art creations with paint and lots and lots of silver and gold glitter. I always say, a girl can never have too many shiny things.

When we ran out of paper, we decided to see what would happen if we squirted paint directly into the spinning machine.

We thought the results were fabulous, but my Ema wasn't nearly as excited as we were so she took the rotator away from us.

In the end, we made a really big mess on the Rotator Painter and on ourselves, but we had lots of fun and made some beautiful pictures.

Have you ever used a Rotator Painter? Any idea where my mommy can get some refills for me to use cause Ayla and I used up all the paint and glitter and paper : (

Happy art spinning!