Lace & Mudpies

So the long awaited theme picture for Lace & Mudpies has arrived. Now I just need to figure out how to incorporate it into the background. 

Christmas Cutout

Christmas Cutout - Finland

Finish themed illustration. I used as a topper for an advent chain.

Children Around The World B&W

For your coloring enjoyment. :)

Christmas Around the World

This is the introduction to the various paper-crafts that I am going to be creating and putting up here. In my house we celebrate Christmas traditions from around the world. Today, for example, we celebrated the 1st Sunday of Advent by lighting the first candle in our Advent Wreath. We also received our chocolate Advent calendars. I cannot wait to eat my 1st chocolate on the 1st of December!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I really wanted to do more for Thanksgiving, but this was as far as I got. I am afraid that I am getting carried away with plans for Christmas cut-outs. I am very excited and am busy working on creating some things that you can use for Christmas.

Doll Cake Birthday Card

It was my mother's birthday today, so I had to draw a card for her. Her mother always used to make a "doll cake" for her birthday (using one of those doll pics you can buy down the foodcrafting isle) and my mother use to make them for me on my birthday.

Witch Card

Here is a little Halloween card to wish you a Happy Halloween! Much love, Miss Morgan

I love cute elephants

Ok...so it isn't anyone's birthday, but I am always up for a cute elephant with balloons. maybe you can use it just as a happy day card, sign, or something. at any rate, ENJOY!

Trick-or-Treaters

Getting excited for Hallowe'en

So I absolutely LOVE Hallowe'en time, but don't like all of the frightening and disturbing images that it brings with it. I am always on the lookout for any cute Hallowe'en things, and, of course, being an artist I like to create my own. I wish that I had more time to draw and to make those drawings into cute decorations. I have long been needing to make a garland...maybe someday. In the meantime here are some images from my sketchbooks! Maybe you will use them to make something fun. I think I am going to print some out on fabric transfer paper and make a table cloth or an apron or something. Happy Hallowe'en.



P.S. for anyone looking for an adorable Hallowe'en book, I love Pumpkin Moonshine by Tasha Tudor.

Link to my story telling video/ the assignment that I created for my teacher technology class

So I have to admit that somewhere along the summer I forgot about my dear little blog. I was overwhelmed by a raging vegetable garden. I found myself daily slicing, grating, washing, and dehydrating. UGH. ...and I also became more than a little obsessed with learning how to sew my own clothes. Which ended up being a success and now I'm still kind of obsessed with it, but that is taking a backseat to SCHOOLWORK! UGH again. I am on my way to being an elementary school teacher, in my 8th semester of undergraduate school at BYU. One of my classes is all about using technology to enhance teaching. For one of the assignments we have to produce a youtube video that is school-ish. I resurrected an old project of mine. I wrote and illustrated a counting book when I was a junior in high school. I titled it 1 is One Dolly I even sent it to a few publishers. I didn't get a positive response, of course, but it was a good experience. When I finish the video I will post the link and all of you viewers can take a look. :)

Hansel and Gretel

These I made for my mother's class. They made their own gingerbread houses (so they could measure the area thereof) these are meant to be folded in half (to demonstrate different kinds of symmetry- another concept she is teaching them) You could make your own little house too and use these to place around for decoration.

Easter Bunny Invitation

...well the invite is a little late. sorry again. This is a design I did one morning for an invitation my parents wanted for a party they wanted to throw for their LDS (i.e. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) Primary class of 7-8 year olds.

catching up...march

So I wrote a little story about a little leprechaun girl (because there aren't ANY that I know of, which is a shame) and this is my character sketch. Yes the story has to do with rainbows and gold, but not in the way that you might think. SOMEDAY! I will get around to illustrating it, for now this is all that I have that looks like more than just scribbles. and yes it is about 2 months too late.

Valentine Paper Doll

Here is the paper-doll cutout that is a great Valentine's activity and past-time for children! Enjoy!

Valentine's Day is Coming!!!

I'm very excited for Valentine's Day this year. It is one of my favorite holidays, though it has never been about the flowers or chocolates for me,  but the miniature fair that we always put on.
That's right a miniature Valentine's Fair where children can bring a doll or stuffed animal and buy miniature cakes, cookies, pies, etc; make mini floral arrangements, design and send Valentine's in the miniature post office, make miniature crafts and toys, and play games.  This Fair culminates in a miniature Valentine's tea party complete with pink punch, finger sandwiches, fruit skewers, etc, all miniature sized for the dolls and stuffed-animals of course!
More details to come...

...right now I find myself in a sea of felt teddy bear finger puppets that I'm cutting out and gluing to be decorated at this years mini fair.

Here's the little girl from my Valentine's paper doll. See the next Valentine's post for the full paperdoll printable.

The Main Idea

My whole life I've been interested in crafting and when I was older I volunteered, with the support and help of my dear mother, to host many "crafts for kids" events at different venues in our city. Many of the crafts we used for these events we adapted or designed ourselves and so I thought that I'd share some of those ideas on this blog.

I hope that some of the ideas will be useful and enjoyed by anyone working with children in any capacity or someone who, like me, may not have children of her own but is a child at heart.

I also hope that anyone who has any ideas or suggestions will PLEASE comment and share their knowledge and insight.

Thanks!