Oh my stars -- puppets & quilts, so much creativity to enjoy!
Last Friday I went to a different kind of birthday party. There's a cute little crafty store less than an hour away that has an art studio in the back. They regularly have open studio hours and I've been trying to get there for one. A friend decided to have her 60th birthday party be there as 2 hours in the art studio. Of course we each paid for our own projects, but the prices were very reasonable.
Project blanks ranged from drinking glasses and mugs, different sizes and shapes of cardboard boxes, and wooden shapes including picture frames, letter initials & toys. Choices were to paint, decoupage, or mosaic. Prices ranged from $6 to $18 and included all art supplies.
First I picked up a wooden cat that turned out to be a coin bank. Then I saw some napkin rings. A notebook from handmade paper. A very cute little wooden bird. A paper crown and magic wand. Mardi Gras mask. Maracas!
I decided to do something that would be useful as well as pretty. Finally I chose a small round box with a lid, for storing buttons or ribbons. I know nothing about painting, but there were acrylic paints in a couple dozen colors. I put on a base coat of white paint, then did a background of different colored stripes. I tried to blend from 1 color to the next, and didn't make any attempt at perfection. I ate a birthday cupcake while the background stripes dried.
Then I decided it needed small white polka dots among the stripes. Unfortunately, I decided the dots needed jazzing up and tried to turn them into paisley shapes. Not so successful,
they look like messy commas. Oh well!
Instead of dots on the lid, I painted a little flower like a pansy.
So for my $10 investment, I had a very enjoyable couple of hours playing with friends and getting messy, and came away with a useful storage box.