color therapy

if you have friends on the east coast, you may have noticed that most of the pictures they've been posting have been white. we have so much snow around here that even i, who am lucky enough to be surrounded by beautiful hues every day, desperately needed some color around here... so we finally found the perfect place for our rainbow maker, which is a lot of fun - it results in the bean screaming "rainbow" at random times through out the day and the cats giving chase to rainbows that disappear and seem to totally blow their little cat minds.


we also made recycled heart crayons, after cleaning out our endless supply of broken and de-papered ones. these will be packaged and given with our greenstarstudio valentine cards when the bean finally goes back to school. we used some of the smaller bits to make a waxed paper heart chain, which i'll post tomorrow, hopefully.

i've also been digging deep for a tropical flower vibe, and have started making a few spring flowers to hold me over until we can have some buds in our garden. (i'd actually settle for some green grass about now.)

and really, we're feeling better already. i can tell, spring is just around the corner.

don't worry, martha...

no one here is going to be taking your place. over the weekend i made spider cupcakes for a halloween given by my oldest friend, based on the ones from the martha stewart halloween magazine. i searched high and low for the black sugar they used, and after having no luck even finding an empty space where black sugar should be, i settled on chocolate sprinkles. i left the icing white because i still shudder at the way i turned the mouths an entire birthday party gray because of the amount of black dye i had to use to get the raven (bird, not football team) dark enough. i did love that cake, but everyone still remembers the mouths.

ah well, not exactly martha. but the kids liked them and i do love the way they cast a shadow... ick!