Our final assignment for our "Back to School" album was Art. Here are the layouts:
Awww, Jeanne---thanks and I love you too!! You've always been so willing to do anything I wanted---even if I had to drag you kicking and screaming some of the time!! I'm so glad you are scrapbooking with me!!
Olivia loves all of Grammie’s crafts.
Whenever she is going to spend
the
night she tells everyone that will
listen that she is going to Grammie’s
house and we will do art.
December 20, 2014 was one such
night, but Grammie was in full swing
with Christmas planning and cooking.
What better idea than have a four-year
old help you bake cookies and decorate!!
Armed with her apron she was determined
to help. And help she
did. We started at
2:30 pm and did not finish until 8:30 pm.
There we no complaints and a short break
to get more supplies and Chinese food for
dinner.
A quick bath and by 9:15 pm we were in
bed. She said,
“Grammie I am not tired yet.”
By 9:20 pm she was fast asleep.
Next sleepover we will be back to card
making and scrapbooking.
What a lovely
partner in “art crime”.
My Grandma Stamm has crocheted for as long as I can remember. Once she retired she really got in to quilting. Her 12 Grandchildren and 7 Great-Grandchildren have certainly benefited from her amazing talents! She makes every family a white afghan for the baby to use on their baptism day. This is a picture of us at my shower. She also makes other goodies- the Candy Corn hat Nathan has on as well as the Elf hat are compliments of her handy work. Grandma made each grandchild an Easter basket years ago, this year she made each great grandchild one as well. I have two quilts from her- she hand stiches the entire quilt. She has another one in progress for me- I’m so lucky! The green afghan was our wedding gift, and the rainbow afghan was my first creation I received from her. I was a little girl and asked her to make me an afghan and this is what we selected. I still cherish it to this day. I love watching her work with her hands, she so talented. I know every finished product is a product straight from her heart!
I learned early in life that – “Artist Ability” comes to Some naturally and Others, such as myself, have to work hard just to make any creative project come to a somewhat passable finish. This realization came during the summers when I spent time with my cousins, Kevin, Kathy, and Diane. One pass time they enjoyed was drawing and I always hoped that I may be able to keep up with Diane since she is 6 years younger than me because there was no way I could come up with anything comparable to Kevin or Kathy. I have a comic story Kevin drew when he was around 11, yes he was into blood and gore at the time, (it was always hard to go to sleep after one of his made up stories he would tell us girls at night!). A lot of the talent comes from my Uncle Charlie, who could doodle /sketch some pretty amazing things. Here I have an ink drawing he did for my Grandma one Sunday at her house (Q: Know who it is?) Also Aunt Audrey may have not draw but she has an eye for design, she worked in Advertising for a short time, more talent. Art is just something I pushed my way through because I know my ability is limited. (These are our school pictures from 1966) {A: Jane Fonda]
My journaling:
I've never considered myself particularly artistic. In fact, I realized in the first grade that I was no Picasso. When it came to staying within the lines, I just couldn't. My coloring was never nice and even like everyone else's. By the time I got to high school and had to take art, it was pure torture. I could not draw a darn thing. I'm pretty good at accepting my limitations. As an adult, I've done pretty many things that you could consider artistic. I have an eye for color and putting things together. I love to decorate and am pretty good at it. I can put flowers together in the garden for a beautiful effect of color and texture. And I can do the same thing with my stitching---choosing gorgeous fibers and fabrics. Even though I do not consider myself artistic, if there's one area where what little talent I might have shows through would be my scrapbooking. Although I am not particularly artistic, maybe I have a little creativity in me after all.
