Nature mobile

Gathered natural materials, along with air dry clay beads are what you need to create a beautiful nature mobile for kids.

Inside: Simple fall craft ideas for kids with DIY pinecone gnomes and fall leaf mobile that will bring autumn sparkle to your activities. It seems like autumn is inviting us to play with its beautiful colourful fruits. I find it very inspiring season. Maybe because I feel like it is last chance to go out and

Try your hand at a little hand sewing project from Spool. Hand sewing is very relaxing and this colourful bird mobile you could make is as much at home in a child’s room as an adults space. T…

As you know, I’m constantly on the hunt for new boutiques or antique shops here in San Francisco and when I travel.

When setting up craft areas, creating play spaces or building a kids' hideaway, our tips and ideas can help you make a kid's room or nursery truly special.

With sticks from the garden and scraps of yarn, kids can make this colourful star-stick mobile to hang from your porch, patio or a tree in your backyard.

Check out this Treasure Hunt Nature Mobile. How fun and simple and beautiful is this? Treasure time with your grand with a walk and this DIY nature mobile!

Name: Eleanor Jane (due July 2012, any day now!)Location: Lexington, KY My husband Nick and I are expecting our first baby and I have loved every minute of the preparation especially designing, crafting, and putting together the nursery. And it’s finally finished!!! I’m so excited to share the pictures I could just squeal! (But I don’t want to startle the bebe in my belly.

Engineering for Kids: Twirling Twig Mobile. Mobiles are a great demonstration of engineering/physics principles. Read on to find out how.

By now you know that I am usually very slow in getting my art projects posted here on the blog. This Fall I am mostly writing about things we made a year ago. These beautiful

There is something fanciful about mobiles. They snag our imaginations and spirits. I'm a huge fan of Alexander Calder. Of his whimsical mobiles it was said, "His mobiles occupy one's mind without constraining it and guide one's thoughts along blissful pathways." -Patrick Waldberg. That's my aim. My mobiles are constructed using papers imported from Japan, Thailand and Nepal. I use artists' acrylic medium and UV protective varnish so that the leaves are durable, washable and archival…

Make gorgeous pinecone mobiles with natural materials found in your own backyard! Kids of all ages will love this simple and beautiful nature craft.

Check out this Treasure Hunt Nature Mobile. How fun and simple and beautiful is this? Treasure time with your grand with a walk and this DIY nature mobile!