Bloomin' Design Studio

The day after thanksgiving is usually refered to as Black Friday. This year at Alton Square Mall, it is going to be called “Green Friday". If you around St. Louis, please check out the Green Gift Bazaar at Alton Square Mall, IL on Nov 28 from 7AM-6PM. I shall be selling numerous eco-friendly products from my store including demonstrations on making some simple items with free patterns to take home. Shoppers are welcome to spend their green on this green friday making purchases at this Green Gift Bazaar .

Here’s a sneak preview of an item made specifically for this show. Can you take a guess at what it is made of? (HINT: Something green)

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Birthday Party Game: Pin the gemstone on Jasmine’s tiara

One of my friends daughter is turning three and this game is for her birthday party. First outlined Jasmine with a pencil, then painted her using water color paints. Finally some gold paint was used for her jewelry. If you are wondering, this project was completed with my little girl’s help . Plastic gemstone with glue on the back will be given to the kids to ‘Pin the gemstone on Jasmine’s tiara’. Hope the kids enjoy this game.

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Birthday Party Game: Pin the tail on the pig

This was one of the games played at my daughter’s fourth birthday party where the theme of the birthday party was ‘Three Little Pigs and the big bad Wolf’. Curly ribbons were given to the children for the pig’s tail.

I have recycled an old space calendar and made envelopes out of them. These envelopes can be used for mailing bills or even handmade cards. The envelopes look great and even looks better than normal envelopes.

Old calendars are a popular ingredient in many of my handmade creations. Check out my earlier “gift bag project” using some of these old calendars.

Please help in saving the trees and the environment by recycling. Let us all do our little share in saving our Mother Earth!

Today was a very pleasant and spring like day in St. Louis. Here are some pictures taken today around my garden showing off pretty spring flowers. You can see some Grapevine, Daffodils, Bradford Pears and Forsythia. No signs of tulips yet as it needs more sun.

This is my first attempt at layered coloring with pencils.