December and January Art Class

This December I had an art show for my students at their Christmas program. It was a huge success and I received a lot of compliments on their art. Here are some pictures:

Me before I left for the show (I've lost 25 pounds!)

 

In January I am teaching on primary and secondary colors. I will them explore with my students tint and shade. Here is a neat idea I got from Pinterest, but expanded the idea to include all shades of the rainbow. I used a square punch on paint sample cards. I designed the columns on my computer. I will have them play around sorting a stack of the colors during their playtime.

 

 

Winter Break and Christmas

We thoroughly enjoyed our winter break. The girls and I went ice skating at the Recreation Center, saw a movie, went sledding, got Mikayla's ears pierced, and decorated gingerbread houses. We are all bummed to head back to school tomorrow.



Elyana's Gingerbread House



Mikayla's Gingerbread House (given to us by Julie)



Christmas Eve



Opening presents on Christmas morning!



Bagels and hot chocolate after Ice Skating!

Ears Pierced!

Elyana even ice skated at a friends house. Mikayla helped.

 

Early December

We had a busy yet good December. We toured the Mayowood Mansion, bell rang for Salvation Army, did lots of shopping, made cookies, and attended my nieces beautiful choir concert in Appleton, WI.

It was a late night and Elyana was a bit sleepy.

Too bad this one was blurry. It is a precious photo.

Present opening at Sophia's house. Elyana was given an Easy Bake Oven!

Nate playing Minion Life board game.

I was able to spend some alone time and wish my sister Merry Christmas.

The girls mischievously decorating cookies.

Making traditional Swiss dubas (doves) at Grandma Jones house with Aunt Nancy.

We made 81!

Decorating for Christmas

I decorated for Christmas early this year as I was hosting a Christmas work party at the house on the 2nd of December. Here is Elyana "helping."

Bathroom Remodel!

In November, my mom and I remodeled our half bathroom. (Okay, Nate helped too when I was afraid of messing up.) We replaced the countertop and faucet, updated towel bars, added an antique mirror (from Craigslist), and painted. I really like the results. It wasn't too hard to do. We need to do our master bathroom next.  The countertop was laid right over the top of the toilet so there is no way to open it to fix it. A few inexpensive changes really go a long way when it comes to updating things.


Before (faucet was leaking and chipped)



After!