I know things have been a little (okay, a lot) craft light around here lately. I’ve no real excuse – well none that I’d expect anyone to accept anyways.

But this week, I actually did something. It was small and quick, but it was a craft project all the same.

The book for bookclub this month was Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl and so we assigned everyone a character to lightly consider their motiviations, or point of view

Cardstock and waterpaper squares…

Quickly blended some watered down acrylic paint to semi-match the cardstock…

attached the watercolour paper to the cardstock and – ta dah!

I had a special party to go to this week. One of my favourite little girls turned three!

Renae’s daughter, Kaitlyn, had a fairy party – about which I was probably more excited than anyone my age had any right to be. Either way, I believe you can’t go to a fairy party without your wings, and so I had a lot of fun getting mine ready.

I started with a pile of goodies from Spotlight…

And ended up with this:

I did enjoy making my wand, though trying to match the paint to the cornflowers was harder than I had anticipated.

I did the detail with cling stamp and black paint – which seemed like a good idea until I had to clean the stamp.

Long necklace, to be doubled over – made with agate-looking stone and blue seed beads.

But my favourite part? The wings! I loved how they turned out, even if I couldn’t quite get them to sit straight on.

White and pink child’s tights stretched over some wire and detailed with purple, silver, and glitter paint – they really shine!