Bottle Cap Art, with a Special Guest Crafter!

February 28, 2011 By 9 Comments

It’s a new first, here at Our House Of Joyful Noise!

This is one of those opportunities, that I just could not pass up!!  It’s not every day that we have someone come through our place, who knows her craft-stuff like this one!  So without further ado…..

We’d like you to meet our first ever (and very special) Guest Crafter!

This is *{Ju}. She is my God-Daughter, and daughter of my cousin. I’m just seeing, in this photo here, that I think she was still a tad sleepy on this morning. Oops!! I was excited to get to our crafting! She is so sweet looking, sleepy.… Read More

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Mini-Masterpiece Magnets / Kid's Craft

February 12, 2009 By 8 Comments

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Perhaps some of you may remember the header image above, not to mention the images below…..

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…and all of my non-stop talk in that post, about how much I LOVE COLORS!!  It was a post called ‘It Takes a Village To Make a Mess’ and can be found in the December archives.  So what were we making that day??………….

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We called them “Mini-Masterpiece Magnets.”

It was abstract fine art, done our way!  And each one SIGNED by for the artists, no less!!

We took those full sheet finger paintings, mounted them on magnetic material, cut them into 3″ x 3″ squares, and then ‘framed’ them with some black vinyl.  Then we made up sets of three, put them in those nifty clear bags I love, with a ribbon and a tag that said ‘Mini-Masterpiece Magnet Set’.  : )   We thought they were so colorful and fun, and honestly, it was my favorite hand-made craft gift we made to give as Christmas gifts.  We can only hope others could appreciate all of the colors and happy-emotion of these paintings, to adorn their refrigerators, perhaps to hold up a masterpiece of their own child’s, or a shopping list!… Read More

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It Takes a Village to Make a Mess.

December 13, 2008 By 2 Comments

We’re a small village, but we’re really good at messes! Such a beautiful mess this time though. And what fun making it! (OK, I’ve got a feeling the kids ALWAYS have fun making the messes. But this time they were ASKED to, and they happily complied.)

Christmas is fast approaching, and believe it or not, this whole mess is another home made gifts craft project.  It’ll be a very useful gift too.  But I can’t say what they’re turning out to be just yet. For now, just enjoy the colors!!  If you are like me, and colors make you happy….you’ll be loving this post.  If not, you’ll wonder what the point was with all these photos, all of which maybe look the same to you.  Because otherwise, I don’t have much else to say tonight.… Read More

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Rare Birds at the Park

October 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Each of our kids are pretty creative in their own rights.  Definitely different styles, ideas, and interests, but we would consider them all quite creative.  And equally messy in their creating. : )   Not to digress already, but our ‘school room’ serves many, many purposes.  It’s the most used room in our home. And it is there that the children create the most.  Sometimes alone.  Sometimes together. But either way, the mess is always BIG.  My family can tell you that there are daily lessons (or lectures….whatever you want to call it), about cleaning up after our creating!  But that one’s not sinking in as much as Mama would like.… Read More

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