KaLeiDoSCopE

Ok, so I am having some technical difficulties today. Can't quite figure out why everything is being underlined. Pictures are not wanting to upload and I am going through caffeine withdrawl. All good things to have happen on a Monday! Well, even with these problems, I hope you enjoy our pics from our trip to Kaleidoscope. We had a lot of fun.

Nephew 2...(now the underlining comes off, better late than never) coloring with melted crayons in the blacklight room. They get to make eyeglasses.

Too bad my camera didn't cooperate and let you get the full effect of the blacklight.
Nephew 1 making a puzzle of Spongebob. Great artist don't you think?
Little man trying his hand a designing a puzzle.
Sissy says that we went to France in her puzzle.

Making some stationery.




Just a really cool painting on the wall in Kaleidoscope. It is a really fun place to go and it is FREE!

Getting Creative Again

So the kids are back to school now and I have been surfing the web, updating pictures on Etsy, trying to "clean-up" the computer, completing mending jobs, trying to dig out my desk from all of the piles of endless towers of paper...so I can create again. So far there is enough space for my sketch book and the book I am reading, "Drawing With Children", by Mona Brookes. It is a wonderful book. I bought it quite a while ago so that I could brush up on my drawing skills and be more confident in drawing my own originals. I find that I feel more confident right now when I have something to look at to try to replicate. I want to be able to be confident in my own skills and talent. So I am reading and doodling. In the process, a thought came to mind that I should take the kids to the Nelson Atkins Art Museum and over to Kaleidoscope. When I went to look up their hours I ran across a few neat websites having to do with kaleidoscopes... Kaleidescope Painter, Zefrank, and PBS parents.