Crafts
How to Draw a Jack-o’-Lantern
Friday, October 31st, 2008Happy Halloween! For today, I’m doing a little How-to for drawing the most common symbol of this holiday. I hope you enjoy!
Step 1
Usually, when we draw a pumpkin, we think “round”, so we might start out with a circle.
Step 2
This is a pretty good start, and people usually get what we’re drawing. It’s not wrong, since every pumpkin is [...]
New Store Designs - The Wedgehead Collection
Friday, April 11th, 2008
We’ve got a few new designs in our store!
I used to draw these characters all the time and would make one-of-a-kind t-shirts for friends by drawing them right on the shirts with a Sharpie marker. (If you plan on doing that, be prepared to soak the shirt in vinegar and wash it a few times [...]
Preparing a Photo for Press in Black and White Using Photoshop
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Intro Notes
I love using Photoshop. It offers so many tools and doohickeys that no other imaging software currently can. But, not many people can afford the $650 for it. A more economical alternative is Photoshop Elements ($99). Then, there are the open source Gimp, Paint.net, and a variety of others. But none of them offer all [...]
Preschool Project: Decorating an Alphabet
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008Our oldest son is 4 years old. Life with a preschooler can be interesting. I’ve found it moves the most smoothly if I keep him busy with projects. Every afternoon we work on some kind of “school”. We have spent a lot of time on his alphabet and numbers. Last week we decided to do [...]
Recycling: Stewards of the Earth
Monday, January 14th, 2008Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." - Genesis 1:26
Marc and I have only been recycling [...]
A Day O’ links
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007I found two links I wanted to share today. They are completely unrelated. The first one I found surprising, but interesting, and I think important for Christians to know. The next is just darn right fun, especially for creative people who like doing things with their hands. Or, if you’re like me, you like making [...]
5min Life Videopedia
Thursday, December 13th, 2007There’s no meat to this update, it’s just a fun diversion for Friday.
I was doing a search for “speed painting” and came across 5min, a really cool video site focusing on instruction. I could spend literally hours there learning things I’ve always wanted to know. If you haven’t been there, their philosophy is (from their site):
5min [...]
For the Love of Pizza-Burger
Thursday, November 8th, 2007Unlike probably a lot of you out there, I don’t have many memories of school cafeterias serving something called “pizza burger”. Throughout secondary school, I brought my lunch and usually ate across the street at the park or somewhere equally quiet.
The only thing that I had ever known with this name was something my mom [...]