Superhero Art

After seeing the superhero art by I Am Momma Hear Me Roar, I was inspired to do a painting for my grandkid’s bedrooms.

Even though mine are over 4 feet long, they are still smaller than the painting at I Am Momma (they used a hollow core door). 

The superhero theme is perfect for Nolan.  And I made it first.  See, I thought because of the clean lines and lack of details, it would be easier.
Ha!  Not so at all.  At least not for me… it’s really hard to be that exact :)

Also.  I had to change up the heroes a bit.  We couldn’t leave out Mr. Spiderman!

I chose a Bible verse for each painting.  Nolan’s is Isaiah 11:2 --
The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him—
the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,
the Spirit of counsel and of might,
the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord.
I’ll show you Skyleigh’s painting next week ;)

A {{cold}} day at the park. . .

If we waited for warm weather, we’d never go outside.  Well, okay.  Not, you know, never, but at least not until June. :)

On a blustery, cold day in March we went to the park. 

And played QUICK.  Before we froze solid.

Nolan Ryan playing catch: 

with Uncle Jared:

Say “cheese” Skyleigh!
 

How does thing work, anyway?

This just in: Nolan climbs the rock wall all. by. himself.

And is VERY pleased about the situation:

And he’s a bit of a ham. . .

The end.

The cake that became a quilt

Once upon a time… I happened upon THIS fantabulous cake. 

And: Instead of cake, my brain said quilt.  A rag quilt.  For Nolan’s birthday.

(He loves Spiderman)

(And Batman)

(And approximately 17,642 other super heroes whose names I never manage to keep straight)

 

So I copied redesigned the Spiderman cake into a rag quilt appliqué.

And surrounded him with red and blue rag quilt squares. 

 

I’m not going to give you a full tutorial, cuz there are lots of really good ones already out there in blog land. 

Like HERE.  Or HERE. 

I do love some really fluffy seam allowances.  So to that end, I cut my squares much bigger than most tutorials - 9.5”, with a 1.5” seam allowance when sewing them together. 

The center square is 16” x  21.5” before sewing.

Couldn’t forget a new Spidey pillowcase made from THIS tutorial on Made  :)

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swingers and climbers

Have you noticed there are two definite preferences, when it comes to playground play? 

You see.

There are swingers 

and there are climbers. 

                                Skyleigh Claire likes to swing.

Please.

DO NOT attempt to remove her from the swing.

Such efforts will be met with MUCH weeping,

wailing and

gnashing of teeth.

(She’s serious about her swinging).

                  Nolan Ryan is a climber

        and so is Matthew

                                     Lacey Brooke, too!

  Nolan tries pushing…

          But it’s WAY too hard

Which one is your favorite?

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Paint your cookies

Or.  Eat your paint.  As the case may be. 

First.  Make your favorite sugar cookies.  I’ve posted my recipe for Grammy’s sugar cookies here.  For Easter this year we made crosses, eggs, tulips and bunnies: 

Now for the “paint”  

• 1 cup whipping cream
• 1/2 to 3/4 cup powdered sugar (to taste)
• food coloring

Pour whipping cream into your mixer bowl.  Add the powdered sugar.  Start with 1/2 cup and then add more if you prefer it sweeter.  Whip until it becomes the consistency of, well, paint ;) 
Pour into small bowls and add your colors.  I used Wilton gel colors: 

Put a clean child’s paintbrush or two in each bowl.  Make sure they have never been used for real paint, though!
Let the painting begin!
Matthew is so, so serious with his painting.  No smiling please.


But he will show you his masterpiece if you ask nicely. 

More seriousness from Lacey. 

And dimples. 

Nolan.Likes.Blue.Paint.  And don’t anyone touch his blue paint, thank you. Except Uncle Matthew.  He can have some.  But no one else.  And that is final. 

Here he considers branching into the yellow. 

But remains true to the blue.  

Skyleigh loves all the colors.

As long as she can eat them! 

Aren’t they lovely? 

Let the paint dry before stacking your cookies.

Posted to: 
Tasty Tuesday
Tempt-My-Tummy Tuesday 
Works-For-Me Wednesday

Intro to sprinkles

Nolan helped make the Valentine cookies this year.  You can find the recipe here. 

He was very interested in the goings on. 

And he really, really wanted to help put the sprinkles on. 

Turns out.  Nolan loves the sprinkling of the cookies.  A LOT.  And he has a very specific sprinkle style.  Which includes a large quantity of sprinkles.

And looks something like this:

That boy loves his sprinkles!

Especially when Aunty Lacey is helping him.