Project Boxes

There was another project day on Leadbetter Rd. recently. Two grandmothers went at it with tissue paper, old children's book illustrations, scraps of this and that and a new found medium called Mod Podge. That turns out to be a sort of glue and varnish that holds stuff, like ephemera, together on a surface. I decided to try out using Trader Joes coffee canisters of which I had only two, and a shoe box which had been sent to me by the other grandmother on my birthday a couple of weeks ago.


As I worked I had very little patience and a lot of drive to get the project done as quickly as possible. I doubt that I'll ever do this again. BUT, I was pleased with the results. They looked pretty colorful and the Mod Podge definitely worked in creating a glaze over the whole "design." Design? It was so haphazard, I can't really claim to have had the foresight which the word design implies.

Filling the boxes is what counts for the kids, and the boxes are FULL! (of surprises)

That Provincetown Light

Jil, Sophie and I make good playmates. We absorbed the light of the day on the beach in Truro and then fell into the sunset in Provincetown Harbor. There is nowhere else with light like there is at the tippy end of Cape Cod, where it p0urs in from all directions. No wonder Mary Oliver makes her home here.

Thanks to Home Depot's palette of paint chips and Framer's Workshop's constant supply of mat board middles, we had free materials. We all worked on getting the light onto our boards and were happily engrossed for several hours.


Jil magnificently captured her view of the water that magical evening we all were together. How she kept those colors in her mind, I don't know, but.... WOW!