Next week we will be taking our first official family vacation. We're packing up and driving 12 hours to Disney World and go to the beach for a few days. To remember the trip, the Woog and I made a journal and keepsake box for her first big trip.



I did the cover text as she collected buttons and such to use as embellishments for the week.



My plan for the journal is for us to write it in each night about what we did that day and let the Woog draw what she did/saw and have some room to add photographs for the day later. Since I'm more of a keepsake box person (rather than a scrapbook) we will add little things she gets on the trip like brochures, shells, etc.

Here's the final journal and box:



And here's what's inside. Notice the Snow White sticker, she can't wait to meet her!!



We're all going to have a blast and I'll show some completed pages when we get back!

Labels: disney, vacation

We haven't been doing Woogie Wednesday projects in a while. She's more interested in coloring pages from noggin. But today we worked on her pumpkin for this year's Pumpkin Junkin' It's a one-winged butterfly, but I'm sure you could tell just by looking.

Labels: junk-a-doodles, pumpkin-junkin'

She painted the base coat and I added painted layers and did the stamping. These are from an assignment I'm currently working on. They will actually be used for backgrounds of small illustration vignettes.

I'm trying to get a book project completed today so not too much time for a "true" WW project but today we had a 3 minute drawing class. We drew a lion and I roughly sketched out each feature and then she drew each feature in her "sketchbook." Looks pretty good!

This gave me an idea for another fun project so stay tuned for that. We also have the unicorn to make from 2 weeks ago. It's sitting on my desk all painted and ready to be junked.

No Woogie Wednesday project today because we're in Austin, TX. I was thinking we might be able to fit something in but our day is pretty full so we'll try next week.

We're starting a little late today because I had a project to finish up and the Woog decided to take a 3+ hour nap so we probably won't have the finished product to show until tomorrow.

She knew right off the bat what she wanted to make so for the first time, I let her pick out the items for it. The first thing she dug out was a box of pencils and declared that it would be the horn (glad she's seeing a vision with different objects) and the frame would be the head and the Melissa & Doug puzzle box would be the grass. The star and hardware bits were extra things she just threw in. I'm guessing he also wants to paint something purple. We'll see how it goes!

Oh, and today she drew one of the best portraits I think she has ever drawn. You can see it here.

Labels: junk-a-doodles

Completed! The Woog's involvement was pretty minimal for this one than it usually is. Since her daddy was home she wanted to play with him a lot which worked out well for this piece since I did a lot of painted detail.

Labels: junk-a-doodles, uncle_sam