I got this idea from Pinterest (of course) and I think it worked rather well! These are for the kids on our street and I am going to make them for the school Halloween party next week. I want to add some plastic spiders or bugs to the school ones – extra creepy! Are you a big Halloween fan? There is no getting away from it over here, so you might as well embrace it! Happy weekend!
This month’s prompts from Fat Mum Slim were the alphabet up to the 26th and finishing the month with the numbers 1-5. A is for acorn. B is for birds. C is for conkers. D is for dried out sunflower. E is for elephants. F is for fir tree. G is for goldfish. H is for Helmet. I is for inside one of my boxes of supplies. J is for jug. K is for knitting. L is for leaves. M is for magazines. N is for nest necklace. A special customer order. O is for octagon. P is for purple pillar and pile of chairs. Q is for quartz. R is for round (ish). S is for shell. We found this in the creek, I suspect it is not a native! T is for trees. U is for utensils. V is for violet skates left on a bench. W is for web, on the hedge for Halloween. X is for eXploding candy! Y is for yellow sign. Z is for zombie finger …
I first saw paint swatch poetry on two fab blogs I follow, Leaf and Petal and The Magpie Diaries. I thought it was a great idea and couldn’t wait to get to the DIY store to grab a handful of paint swatches. They must have thought I was painting a whole building once I had gathered my pile! I did a couple of random ‘poem’s and it is super fun, I thought I would have to have lots of attempts, but I just went for it and discarded the less successful. I arranged the cards by colour rather than the crazy names, so that I wouldn’t get distracted by the words. I find random very difficult, so I let myself sort colours. Cards with three colours were easier because all the ‘organising’ is already done. I started with these. From the Tree Apple Cider From the Field Brown Bread From Pure Joy Gingersnap. Oh my goodness, those Pinking Shears have gone Completely Bananas at my expense. There is no more Hibiscus Tea thanks …
Clare Davis Etheridge 