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Creative Friday

By Linda on December 5, 2014 in Art, Creative Friday

We’ve been winding down our school year this week, everyone chose mosaics from the craft shop and they’ve been busily working on them and have had tremendous fun!

We’ve had great excitement here today, the girls’ friends have just arrived from Australia for a holiday and came two days early to surprise them!! Oh my goodness, the shrieking!! It was wonderful!

Have a lovely weekend:)

Welcome to Creative Friday,

Please feel free to post your links to anything you have created and would like to share, it can be a recipe, sewing tutorial, knitting tutorial, felting, crochet, crafts, art, spinning, weaving, working with fibre, photography, poetry…etc…

I have added a Creative Friday button on the sidebar of my blog, please feel free to add it to your blog for Creative Friday and link it to http://www.naturalsuburbia.com/ so others can find this space and share their creativity too:)

1. I have started a Creative Friday Flickr Group where you can post your beautiful photos that you link to each Creative Friday. To join the group, please go here.

2. If you would be so kind as to link back to Natural Suburbia in your blog post that would be lovely or pin, share on Facebook and Twitter.

An InLinkz Link-up

Painting…

By Linda on May 18, 2011 in Art, Gardening

While we were out at our local craft / stationery shop I bought a few mounted painting boards and some acrylic paints for our children to paint with. I thought it would be a lovely idea for them to sit outside in the garden and paint with inspiration from their surroundings… I love what they came up with. They took their time and really enjoyed the process adding in tiny details to their blank canvas…

From left: Jenna’s, Erin’s, Caiden’s and Kye’s…

I have also started saving seeds for our next planting season, these pumpkins were so sweet and delicious and can’t wait to plant them next year…

Portrait Saturday

By Linda on December 18, 2010 in Art, Gardening

I was paging through one of my favourite gardening magazines this morning, The Gardener, when I noticed an art competition. The art competition is called Paint a Poppy. The poppy of your choice can be painted in any medium. I mentioned this to my girls and they were both so excited at take part and got to work straight away. They both chose water colour pencils, which are drawn onto the paper first and then water is added with a brush to blend and shade and turn your drawing into a painting. Below are their finished paintings… Jenna’s painting is the first one and Erin’s is the second. They had such fun designing and painting these flowers… We are definately going to frame these beautiful treasures and hang them in our home…

Happy weekend to you all
xo
Linda

Here…

By Linda on January 26, 2010 in Art, Chickens, Grade 5, Grade 6 Botany, Mineralogy

Chickens sun tanning…

We have been having so much rain here in Benoni at the moment, that we are experiencing floods in some areas. This photo was taken by my hubby this morning when he was on his mountain bike ride…

This is usually a little stream, now it is a raging river…

Discoveries in the garden…

Today we went for a long walk down to the lake and as we were walking home, we found some stranded tadpoles, we have brought them home and will release them to our pond when they are fully grown frogs…

Erin has been learning about the lily and the rose in her Botany study as the two archetypal plants, one with a strong root system and the other a bulb… These are her representations of each one…

Jenna is finishing off Mineralogy, this is her drawing of a volcano…

Jenna’s coloured pencil drawing of the life cycle of Limestone…

We have been enjoying our One Small Change and for this month, we have used oil lamps as often as we could at night and have really enjoyed this challenge. It has created the most peaceful atmosphere within our home and has really made an impact on our children about the use of electricity. We are discussing what our next challenge for February will be and I think we are all going to stop using shampo for the month of February and possibly thereafter. Instead of using shampo which flows down our drains and is quite full of harsh chemicals that ends up in our ground water and drainage systems, we will be washing out hair with Bicarbonate of Soda. I have used this before and it is wonderful for your hair and the environment too. I will post more about this tomorrow…

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