Beth's Sister Saige

Visit my sister Candace's blog

2015-01-31T11:57:00.000-05:00

My sister Candace has a blog she writes.
I Want Candy Too is usually about clothing and modeling. However she tackled an important topic today and it is worth reading. She talks about bullying. She also shared the link to the instagram that we appear in. You know in case you just can't get enough of us.

Please check out her blog and read her thoughts on bullies. While I sometimes get annoyed with her as she is pretty bossy, thinks every new piece of clothing should be hers, she has some really good advice as much as it pains me to say that.
Oh she really loves Andy so that is another good thing about her. Other than that she is really annoying.

Models, LOL what can you do with them. Yes, I do model from time to time but that isn't my main goal in life. I love art. I just model because my mom asks me to and she said I look really adorable in pink.

What do you think?

Well I need to find some more art ideas for you to explore.

Saige

Please vote

2014-09-15T21:34:00.001-04:00

Entry #9 is not doing good in the voting race and there is only 5 days left. Only the top 50% of the entries after voting go on to the next part final judging. We are in bottom two of seven, so not good.Entry #9 is made by Confetti Doll Design and I model for them from time to time.

Thank you for helping out.

Editing... how to make a good photo better or a better photo awesome.

2014-09-02T00:23:00.000-04:00

I highly recommend editing your photo's. You can easily make a good photo better. It isn't hard. There are many different free online editors you can use. I was a Picnik fan until it closed so I have found that Ribbet works the best for me as it is the closest fit to Picnik and was made by former Picnik employees.

Whatever service you choose you need to learn what the different things can do for you in the program.

We are going to work with this photo. This is the original unedited photo.

Tool #1. Crop Crop is a great way to change the position of your subject in the photo. I am going to crop this photo into a square Instagram shape.

Crop brought us all a bit closer to the front, took out extra background.

Tool #2 is Rotate. You would use this if you needed to straighten the photo because you might have held your camera a bit crooked or you need to turn it because you held the camera perpendicular. I am going to change our position just for fun. I think we shall tilt a bit.

This photo didn't have a ton of background so the rotate really did not help much but you can see how we took the same photo and tilted it. (cropped first)

Tool #3 Exposure You can use Exposure to fix the lighting to a degree. It can brighten the photo and correct the white to white. If you notice all the white in the original isn't true white.

Here I used auto Exposure. And the whites look whiter. It brightened it all up.

Manual Exposure used here. I put the highlight up to 41 and the shadow to 10. Went a bit high on the highlight just so you can see the extreme.

Tool #4 Sharpen. Honestly I don't often touch this. I can give your photo a grainy texture. Sometimes that is desired because it will make a digital photo have more of a film quality. Feel free to experiment as you wish,

Tool #5 Resize. This is useful when the size of your photo is too large. Not shape size but pixel size. If you have a higher megapixel camera you end up with higher pixel count . Often higher pixel count is desired, It views the best on blogs for example.

Tool #6 Autofix. It will fix color and straighten. Here is the same photo with auto fix.

Tool #7 Colors. I typically use the neutral color and click on white in the photo. That is why I favor white shirts or white walls. It allows you to fix color.

Combining the tools... I am going to use a few of these tools to make the original photo what I would like it to be. I will tell you what I used.

Here we have white whites, bright faces and not too much background.

You can experiment with filters, text, stickers, frames, and effects to customize your photo further. It is always a good idea to watermark your photos with your name so no one steals your work on the internet. I left this without one, but it is not the most thrilling photo of Beth, Candace and myself. Also Beth and Candace are customs so it is harder to steal photo's of custom dolls.

Keep shooting photos and practicing your art, and I will be back soon with more lessons for you.

Get down on our level

2014-09-01T23:46:00.000-04:00

The most important thing other that lighting the photo is the angle of the camera. If you stand up and we are standing on the ground it is not going to look good. You need to get low and level with us to make a good photo.

This is the worst photo we could find that we took. Mom learned her lesson early on. I look tiny and well like a doll. The goal is lifelike not reminders that we are dolls. (Really we think we are short people here.)

So get on our level...

Rose looks actual size and the house in the background doesn't seem as big as it is in reality. It makes a difference.

Dolls for A Cause Pink for Pam Auction Event

2014-08-31T20:39:00.001-04:00

This week I took a small break in my series of lighting dolls to be the model. I worked alongside my friend Candace. Her name is a link to her fashion blog.

Dolls for a cause has 50 items available to bid on on their Facebook page and the proceeds go to help a friend of Confetti Doll Design's owner named Pam. Pam has breast cancer and they are trying to raise funds for her medical expenses. You can help by bidding and getting some awesome stuff in the process.

Backgrounds, props, budgets oh my Or... get Crafty time.

2014-08-30T16:37:00.001-04:00

If you are one of the lucky ones with a dollhouse for your dolls like me congrats. So many don't have space or the funds to have one. We lack both pretty much but we can fake it. Cardboard is your friend. Scrapbook paper is a better friend. You can make walls and floors easily with the two. I showed some in another post but if you really want cool doll props and are on a budget I am going to share my best secrets with you but let me mention one more friend, Glue sticks. Trust me they don't wrinkle the paper like regular glue will.

My secrets:

YouTube is your friend. People show you how to do stuff and watching it is free assuming you have internet. Which if you are reading my tips I guess you are. There are a few youtubers that make great stuff for dolls. Chad Alan makes stuff for Monster High, Ever After High and Barbies and shows you how to make clothes... and some of his techniques will be able to be translated to larger dolls like me. Find him here.

My Froggy Stuff. Started out with mostly Monster High and Barbie and now covers everything including American Girls... wooo. There is a blog and the have more than one You Tube. Find it here. Furniture , backgrounds, luggage, food oh my so many ideas.

Karen Mom of Three Blog... wow she has all boys but makes cool doll stuff. Wait so does my human mom. Well her actual kids are boys. That is awesome though. Keeping in touch with their inner child I guess... linky dinky do to find Karen's blog.

Google search: Yep Or Bing if you like that better or whichever search you use. I am a google person umm doll.. anyhow. Type in how to make a (insert item here) for an 18 inch doll. You might have to weed out things you were not looking for and it is best to ask a parent because when you google search anything can happen. We are als 1/3 scale or playscale. (psst here you will thank me for this one) Print Mini,com is free and they have a Playscale page that fits us. woo! Accessorize time.

So make it and fake it for cool photo props on the cheap. Because we all love those little details.

Thinking outside the box

2014-08-30T16:37:00.000-04:00

Another one of Saige's tips for better and more artistic doll photos. Think outside the box a bit.

The box is a standard portrait. Pose us. Make us look like we are doing something. We look more life like that way. We look like we are fun little people. Make us look like we are in scale to the things around us by holding the camera close to us. It puts the background out farther and makes it seem more in scale. On the beach you see beach umbrellas off in the distance but they don't look like they are actual size. The skateboard is a mini one that came with a tshirt the human boys got. It is illegal to ride a skate board in the town we live in so the kids can't use them but I am a doll. I am above the law I will ride that skateboard if I want to. (Ok got a bit carried away but you get the point. I can stand on it and look like I am riding it. And,,, once again it was Beth not even me. Sigh. Hard being the newer doll you don't go out much. Have to be kept pristine blah blah blah) So all these photos put us in action poses, we are not centered in the middle portrait style. No school photos in this group, Yearbook ones perhaps,but it adds life to us.

Next tip Parts of the whole.

No where is it written that you need the entire doll in the photo for a good photo. All of these are highlighting the accessories. I do love the headband shot. It is me. I love how my eyelashes look. You can see all the pretty details in the headband/ We have cute hands and feet and knees and elbows and well where aren't we cute, am I right/? So in thinking outside the box, think parts of the whole. This can be achieved in the editing as well as the shooting, depending on the photo in question. These were pretty much focusing on the subject in the shot but sometimes you want to narrow it down. In editing you can crop to just part of the whole. The photographer was trying to highlight the design of the lace so there was a close shot of the whole dress but upon staring on it in the editing website the crop down to the just the lace made the difference. It is part of a collage of the outfit and it really a nice touch to show how pretty the brown designs are on the pink. I was so happy I got to model it. Candace is still not speaking to me. She will get over it eventually. The first photo is totally unedited so it is sideways. Sorry

So to recap this lesson Think Outside the Box, Not a school portrait but Action or Parts of the whole can really spice up your photo shoots.

Keep Practicing your art, both Photography and the kinds with paper and drawing and painting supplies.

Saige

More thoughts on lighting dolls

2014-08-20T02:05:00.003-04:00

Well I actually came up with another tip on taking photos of dolls that was still on the subject of lighting. It is THE FLASH... no not the super hero the camera's flash.

Try to avoid it. No, really at all costs. Please... I beg of you. Flash photography when not using what a professional photographer is using never is as great as it could be. However when you are talking a point and shoot, a phone or even a digital SLR and a doll... we look dead. It takes all the contours that our faces have and makes them look flat, our coloring looks gone, the gentle blush of our cheeks isn't visible.

Wait for good natural light. It makes all the difference.

Example A: a Family portrait. Beth Andya nd Kendall were at our cousins and they all got together in a group photo. It was night time and this was taken with a flash and well they all look more like dolls on a couch than the people you know we are.

Example B: Beth in strong sunlight. Her eyes are so reflective. They look more lifelike and this isn't even an example of good natural lighting. This is still better than the photo above. Yes, Beth changes her hair often. Right now she is a red head and it is super curly. I think she likes to look closer to me. We look cute together now with our blue eyes and red hair.

Example C: Candace with a flash. So every now and then you forget to turn the flash off and this happens. Ugh. Well there is a reshoot of it. She is in same pose but we cropped it differently.

Exampe D: Candace in same pose but natural light. I don't think it was the best day either but you can see her eyes look pretty not scary. For brown eyed dolls the light is imperative,

Example E: Kendall and Andy at the beach... super cute pose but the problem with this photo is the angle the light is coming from. It doesn't light their faces. Their faces are in shadow.

Example F: Kendall lying on the beach. Much better his face is lit nicely. I think he is a bit of a beach bum. I hope Beth doesn't get mad that I went into her photo archives and have been critiquing them. Ummm Kendall what up with the hair? Wow that is curly on the top. LOL It looks like he does when he first gets up. He is a goof. You have to live with him to understand. ( I know he is my brother but he is actually sort of cute, you know for a brother.)

Last one, is Example G: Rosemarie with her eyes looking exceptionally pretty. Glad she gave up on that lip gloss color since then. This is a really old photo of her. I do love her freckles though..

Well I hope this helps with your quest to better and more artistic photos of your dolls. Remember we like to look alive so give us a hand in our quest to look as human as possible. Now it is really late and since our humans are asleep we are going to play some cards, you know Toy Story was absolutely correct. In fact many toys were mad that the cover was blown. Anyhow UNO time with the doll siblings.

Saige

Lights and thoughts before that

2014-08-19T14:53:00.000-04:00

When we do photo shoots we have some walls we use that are actually cardboard trifold presentation boards. Some have been transformed into various rooms and others are plain solid colors. We have floors that are already created as well. This allows us to have a nice background for a photo.

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Our barn set, the floor is made from scrapbook paper that looks like hay and we got scrapbook paper that was a wood floor cut it into boards and glued it all in, made fake windows by printing them out.

It looks like I am in the an actual barn.

These are not lit the best as it was raining that day. BOO but it allows you to get the scaled background idea.

Other scale backgrounds we made for play and photography are a vet office...

School...

Wall with a mirror...

And the new Confetti wall for mom's new shop Confetti Doll Designs. All that confetti is glued individually on foam core. it fits inside the normal plain white tri fold.

You can find some great outside places that look scale for people as short as me as well... two of our favorite photos of me in real world are...

Old Train station, brick wall and sidewalk and

Walking the dogs with a creative focus. Because I am close and the buildings are so far away in the photo background it tricks your eye into thinking we are in scale. I am actually 1/3 scale. LOL

Now once you find a good background, you need to think about where the light is coming from when you shoot the photo. For example this is full sun in my face with the dogs. It can lead to harsh shadows so you have to be careful you are not in shadow in your photograph or it is something you can fully crop out later. The sun is behind photographer.

Where I am against the brick wall that day was overcast. I had plenty of bright light but with a nice cloud cover to diffuse it so it eliminated the shadows. That is the best light. I makes my eyes look bright and alive but no weird shadows on my face. The sun is behind the photographer and it was a different day and time.

The two in the grey dress were shot inside the house and the light was coming from behind the photographer on her right. She is as far to the left as her body can be to not block her light source.

The camera is held as level to me as possible, if at a slightly upward angle our eyes can look a bit odd so just slightly higher angle is best to make us look the most lifelike.

So rules for a lifelike doll photo a recap:

1. Background scale

2. Good light, Bright but not too harsh from behind photographer.

3. Angle of your photographer the sun and the camera.

Let me know if you would like in depth tutorials on background making.

Saige

New series in art lessons... Photography

2014-08-18T18:59:00.003-04:00

Photography is a really broad subject as art. What you are doing is using the digital camera or film (those relics do exist still but not in as much use as they were just ten years ago) to record the light as it reflects off an object. This holds true for both black and white and color photography.

However in today's world I am going to assume that for the most part, most people are using digital cameras (cell phones, tablets, what have you) Digital photography has so many aspects that we can cover. so we can have a big series on better photography.

There are some advantages to digital photography. Once you have made the initial purchase of your equipment you are not paying for film and developing to just see what you have. It also eliminates the wait time involved with film development. The cost of the chemicals needed to develop the film is also eliminated.

My mom took two different black and white photography classes and I got to see her old film canister. (we sold it last summer) It had a wire coil inside a metal canister with a black plastic lid that had a really strange bump on top. I can't imagine standing in compete darkness trying to wind the film into that coil and only touching the edges because if you touched it incorrectly you ruined the film. So many things to go wrong.

Of course I do realize that the downfall of digital photography would be a digital memory fail of some sort. However if care is taken it is still the simpler way to photography,

We are first going to talk about taking photo's of dolls...or other inanimate objects....hey wait I am so not inanimate. Well you know short people like me.

This is a great photo mom took of my sister Beth. While you don't see her face you get the feeling she was riding along on her board and mom caught that great shadow in it as well.

She was standing still and the breeze blew her hair giving it a feeling of motion. (lucky shot mom, lol)

What mom?

I was just told not to bust my mom's photography skills. Truthfully she does ok.

So in next post we will talk about lighting a photograph.

Saige

I have been bad about blogging...

2014-08-18T02:53:00.001-04:00

Sometimes, even us dolls get really bad about blogging. I can't make any excuses why I just did. I really need to give you some more great art ideas that you can do. I will do my best to work at this harder as we all need to practice. I need to work on my blogging skills that is for certain.

Here is a really cool drawing my mom did. It was sketched in pencil then the colored it with colored pencils and inked all the details in . It isn't perfect but it is one of her best attempts at a Dragon. It was scanned then into the computer so it wouldn't get lost. It is a good way to preserve drawings.

So to let you know what I was up to I have spent a ton of time standing around in a dress getting my photo taken. Yeah modeling. I have been working for Confetti Doll Designs as a model alongside their main model who's blog is http://iwantcandytoo.blogspot.com/ and her name is Candace. She is fun and has an adorable younger brother named Andy.

I also recently did a little modeling for Dolls For A Cause.

Their next campaign begins on August 31 on Facebook and it will run through the 7 of September. The awesome ladies that run that group have explained that they have recently changed all of their ways of fundraising. While they originally were using Ebay they found that the seller fees were dipping into their total funds available to donate, and by offering smaller groupings but more of them in comparison to one large group project they were able to make their donated goods available to a wider range of people. They are earning greater amounts of money to help where needed. Then the last change they made was moving to a more personal story. We have been finding people who have illnesses and have been donating to them in the place of the large corporate conglomerates. They supported a girl fighting cancer and Pam of our upcoming campaign is a close friend of so many of the ladies that sew and donate the clothing.

Pink for Pam event can be found at this link, and you can learn more about the Dolls for A Cause group on their facebook page.

I absolutely adore this dress. I love how pretty I look and I feel very much like I was channeling Molly Ringwold in Pretty in Pink.

Keep practicing your art and I will work hard at a new project idea for you all to do.

Love

Saige

Dolls for a Cause

2013-11-23T00:22:00.000-05:00

Off my art topic, but have you heard of Dolls for a Cause?

Dolls for a Cause is made up of a group of crafters and artisians who create unique one of a kind pieces of doll clothing, accessories and furniture and then donate them. They pick a cause or theme and all the pieces work around that to become a cohesive collection. When the collection is all together, it is then photographed and listed on ebay and the proceeds of the auction are then donated to the charity.

There are many crafters involved. You can find more information, here.

Past Cause's have included Susan G Komen for the Cure, and Autism Speaks.

Want to know how I know all about this great group? Sometimes I get to be the model.

Bet you want to know how I get to be the model, right? Well Lemonhead 103, my mom's shop on Storenvy is one of those crafters. When we host the auction, I get to model/.. well unless one of my sister's call it first.

I need to fight Candace for the Christmas one.

As soon as mom has a finished photo and auction information I will share it here.

Now, go follow that fb page.

and Lemonhead 103.

It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas.... ( and other holidays)

2013-11-22T00:15:00.000-05:00

I have been pretty bad about blogging lately. I have no real excuse. Ummm, perhaps I need to stop messing with mom's smart phone so much and playing games. Sorry.

Well the end of my reign as Girl of the Year is almost over. I am not sure if I should keep doing the art or if Candace or Kaya or Rose should take over the blog for some time. Not sure Kaya ever will take over, she is not sure what the computer is and is a bit afraid of it. She time traveled from the 1800's after all. Most of the technology frightens her. She prefers her buckskin dress to the modern clothes the rest of us wear. I don't know if she can type even. Hmm might need to teach her.

In the mean time, I hope that you have been practicing. Art is all about practice, and self expression.
It does not mean everyone will like what you create as we all have different taste.

So my assignment for you is Make some holiday cards. I am using the generic "Holiday" in place of Christmas because I will not presume that you celebrate it. However, what ever winter holiday you choose, MAKE SOME CARDS.... it is a great way to get some art time and make a unique one of a kind card for someone special, or better yet multiple someone's.

Don't have anyone to give them to? Sure you do. Find a nursing facility near you and take them in. Many patients in nursing facilities do not have many visitors. A card is a wonderful piece of cheer to share with them and a way to let them know that other people think of them.

Another place is a Children's wing of the hospital near you.

If you attend religious services, they may have a list of shut in's and Usually the religious officiant will go to visit them, some hand made cards from you would be a nice thing to take to them.

You have family I would think. Aunties love some art.

Share your art, even if you don't think it is good there are people who will appreciate your time and effort.

I would have mentioned the US Military as well, however there are many restraints on that program. There is a deadline so I think we may have missed it. If not I encourage you to make cards for the military as well, We did that at 4-H. If you live in an area with a Base or have ties to an American Legion it may be easier to accomplish.
Whoever you choose to share your art and joy with this holiday season I know they will appreciate it.

Stamps and cut outs and scrapbooking embellishments can make it fun as well. If you scrapbook and you design pages that is art, remember , art is everywhere.

Love,

Saige

2013-10-15T19:27:00.000-04:00

Well sorry about my absence, I got involved in creating my human brother's Halloween costumes and I had set a bunch of posts to auto load and apparently Blogger was being a bit Derpy so they never posted... I just caught them up. Hope you are still with me.

I am a huge My Little Pony fan, closet trivia about me, lol. Rarity is my favorite pony.

I also got a new sister. Her name is Kaya.

I should bring her in as a guest one day and do a post about Native American Art.

Anyhow I will try to commence with the art ideas, and lessons once again.

Sorry!

(Please accept this crazy rambling as my I am back to blogging more regularly. I hope, I will do my best anyhow.)

Love,

Saige

Wrap up to the mini canvas craze

2013-09-16T09:00:00.000-04:00

I am going to share with you today some more links to Mini Canvas's art ideas that are inspired by the great artists, but remember, if you want you can go all kinds of creative on a mini canvas and make it your own. You don't have do make a replica of one of the famous artists work, you be the artist too. Let me send you now to the world of links to Art Projects for Kids.org.

Here are some more ideas, Rothko,

A Mini Masterpiece,

and Kandinsky

Enjoy creating something beautiful for your dolls world with parent permission, and if permitted, email me photo's of your art so I can stick them on my virtual refridgerator, since the refridgerator is where all the really important artwork always hangs ;) Lemonhead103@verizon.net

Love, Saige.

A Mini Matisse... another mini Canvas idea

2013-09-15T09:00:00.000-04:00

I am loving on the mini canvas, what a great way to add some style to your doll's world. I myself have a doll stand and a dresser top I share with my dolly sisters when I am not modeling or blogging, or doing a bit of art and design, but I would kill for a room... oh well.

For those lucky dolls with rooms here is another way to personalize the space, this is a higher skill level, but I have a few more mini canvas ideas I found at Art Projects for Kids.org to share with you still... keep watching.

You can get the how to here.

As always, I would love to hear from you with your parent's permission so email me at Lemonhead103@verizon.net and I will share your art work that you send photos of here with the world.

Love, Saige

More doll sized art from Art Projects for Kids.

2013-09-14T09:00:00.000-04:00

VanGogh, Sunflowers... a classic, known for it's use of color and it's beauty... ok you like it but what about your dolls? Don't they deserve a beautiful Sunflower inspired by Van Gogh? This one also takes a Mini Canvas, parent's permission and a few other supplies. You can get the how to here.

I would love to see your work, with parent's permission, so email me at Lemonhead103@verizon.net .

Have fun and show me your art!

Love, Saige

A fun Doll Sized Art Idea

2013-09-13T09:00:00.000-04:00

I have still been hanging around at ArtProjectsfor kids. org and I found this little treasure and I thought to myself that this would be cool to make for your American Girl Dolls. They could have a work of art for their space.

You need a mini canvas, and I have seen them in some of the craft supply stores, and some sell and miniature easel to match.

The mini mondrain painting blog post can be found here. This requires neatness, but not too much techinal difficulty, just the canvass, a ruler and some markers, will do. If you use water based markers, this will need to be sealed before you can use it with your dolls. Steps for sealing are included in the post. Get a parent's permission as always to do the craft and to send me photo's of your work. I would love some peeks at your creations.

Email me photo's of your art at Lemonhead103@verizon.net

You do know who Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello are, Right?

2013-09-12T23:11:00.003-04:00

I was wondering if you had heard of Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello. Are you thinking of these guys?

LOL

I was watching some Animaniacs and they did that gag and said they are artists not turtles. It is the inspiration for this blog post.

Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Reinassance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western Art.

He looked like this

Some famous works of his were his sculpture of David

and his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Leonardo... is not Leonardo DiCaprio even if he is super famous as well. Leonardo DaVinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

He is famous for the Mona Lisa,

Inventing,

and his studies.

Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

Among his famous works is his painting of the Madonna. ( not the pop singer)

Donatello was an early Renaissance Italian Sculptor from Florence. He is, in part, known for his work in bas-relief a form of shallow relief sculpture that, in Donatello's case, incorporated significant 15th-century developments in perspectival illusionism. Some of his famous sculptures are St. George,

and Annunciation

and St. Mark.

I have a fun project coming up featuring some of these... stay tuned.

The Renaissance must have been a wonderful creative time, so much of our worlds most prized art came from that time period.

Love,Saige.

Video games, are they Art?

2013-09-12T23:11:00.002-04:00

Video games creating involves artists that work with computers to create the visual world that you are playing in and the characters.

The Smithsonian Museum had an exhibit on the Art of Video Games.. On Kids.gov they have a video and the written text of the video, so if you can't get there you can see some peeks of it. How cool is that? It is now a traveling exhibit through 2016 so perhaps it will come to a museum near you.

You can read more about this cool exhibit here and find out where it is now and where it is headed.

Art is really everywhere.

Go make some of your own, Practice makes perfect!

Love,

Saige

Finishing the leaf

2013-09-12T23:11:00.001-04:00

I am on a leaf kick, probably because where we live we don't see many nice one like you do farther north. They dry out before they fall here, and they are green, they are green, they are green then boom, brown. I do wish I lived where my Mom grew up she had the pleasure of the full spectrum of leaf color. Oh well... I some times get to see a yellow one, lol.

Here is another fun idea, finish the leaf. I once again found this at Art Projects for Kids. org. It is my new favorite blog. Get your template here.

More Autum is near fun

2013-09-12T23:11:00.000-04:00

We talked about line patterns when we were doing our Zendangle designs, and here is another fun project that is a more structured Zendangle.

I found this template on the Art Projects for Kids. Org website

You do a different design in each section of the leaf. I love how this looks.

Get yours here.

Get permission to email if you are a kid, and even if you are an adult reader, email me what you came up with and I will make a post of my reader art. Art is for sharing.

Lemonhead103@ Verizon.net

Love, Saige

Our second entry in The Doll Wardrobe Blog Fashion Design Competition

2013-09-04T00:16:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone, So I promised I would share my mom's second outfit in the Doll Wardrobe Blogs Fashion Design Competition with you and here it is.

vote here

Please Vote

I need more votes please, Thanks

You can vote for me modeling this great outfit here.

Thanks for the votes!!!

Saige

Just want to Color?

2013-09-03T23:58:00.000-04:00

Sometimes it is fun to just color a coloring sheet or in a coloring book. If you are looking for a place to find printable coloring sheets (people size) then Crayola. com is the place to find some.

They even have ones with games.

You can find your perfect printable coloring sheet here.

Now, go brighten up your day with some color!!

Love, Saige

Mona Lisa Smile

2013-09-01T00:26:00.000-04:00

Mona Lisa is such a famous painting. Her smile has been inspiration for many the poet, musician, and artist alike. Here is a fun Mona Lisa inspired project. I am going to refer you to this blog post at Art Projects for Kids. org You will need some black markers or pens with different thickness points and the print-out from the blog. You simply add the rest of Mona Lisa, all you have is her face and hands. I think this could be fun, imagine what Mona Lisa could be doing today. She could be an astronaut, or a princess, or in the WNBA, or in an American Girl Store buying a cool Saige Doll... LOL. The possibilities are endless.

Have some fun with this project, and don't forget that I would still love some of your art sent to me at Lemonhead103@verizon.net so I can do a reader submission post.
Get permission though first!

Love,
Saige