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Check out the giveaway over at  Lily's Quilts



A Colourbox of 100 F8ths.
Oakshott shot cotton beauties.
I want to win, but I promise to be happy for you if you win and I don't.  


Make it a Wonderful Day!



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Art Club has been working on two things at once...





















We've been painting with acrylics on canvas (8x10), and with our leftover paints, we painted our hearts. 







 They are actually circle paintings on heavy watercolor paper. The only rule was they needed to use the leftover paints-no getting new paint from a tube. They could share/trade with their neighbors.




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This is one of my all-time favorite projects. This time around, our art is of owls and leaves.

We first planned our compositions, paying attention to all of the positive and negative spaces. We wanted to be sure they were all interesting.  (Oh, my photos are out of order. No time to fix that!!) So the following pics show what to do:
Draw on paper the size of your final cardboard. Just the big 
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