A Birthday Project

This past weekend, we had a fun time with a Pirate birthday party for my 7-year-old. It’s always fun for me to do silly projects for my kiddos, so I thought I would share. I created a mustache-wearing pirate party invitation with a fold-over eye patch and a sucker for an “earring.” I got a “cool” from said 7yo, so I claimed that as a success.

To put the invitation together, I found some black decorative tape with numbers printed on it in my tape jar to create a silly flag on those big, round “bank” suckers. I threaded the stick through slits in the invitation to hold the eye patch flap in place.

I’ve included a generic version of the invitation here that you can print if there is a pirate birthday celebration coming up in your family. Just click the sample instructions below to download a pdf copy. Ahoy Matey!

favorite things . Birds

Birds seem to inspire artists and craftsmen everywhere. I have a growing collection of bookmarked specimens that lift my heart, so I’m sure this collection will include subsequent additions. For now, I’ve been mesmerized by these three paper sculptures of birds.

1. Anna-Wili Highfield ~ simply amazing layers of torn paper and wire.
2. Diana Beltran Herrera ~ cut-paper sculptures from this Columbian artist, exquisitely detailed
3. Annie Paso ~ a DIY birch bird card that is fully mail-able