raising an artist

Lily leaves her artistic mark wherever she can. I thought I would share a bit of her work on here. These a few of the things you would see if you took a walk through our house:

Lily painted this for me for my birthday. She took down something I had hanging here because she thought hers would look better...she was right...but, I sure did like what was hanging here first.

this is hanging on one side of our fireplace. She got some tape for Christmas, so she's been hanging a lot more of her work up around the house.

This is the other side of the fire place. It's her note and picture to Santa. He forgot to take it...so I'm not sure, but we might have to leave it here until next Christmas.

This is just an example of the random stickers that you may find stuck throughout our house. The dots are because she had used this sticker to adapt an existing game we have.

Random scribbles. I am not sure how old these are, actually.

We cannot have a plain microwave! The horror of plainness!!

This is hanging in the kitchen on one of the door handles.

This is her current arrangement in her room. The painting on the left is my favorite piece of hers...she won't let me have it..or even hang it in the living room.

A home for bugs that she has hanging in her window.

This is a piece of wood leftover from the benches we had in the kitchen. She couldn't resist the clean white surface. (The drawings were there before Tom had actually removed the benches.)

This is my white board calender that I usually have hanging in the kitchen. She needed to decorate it for me.

This girl has a compulsion to be creative. I hope that we give her enough space and freedom to explore her passion. I can't say that I'm always happy about the artwork that appears in my house...but I always appreciate the artist.

*She has actually done a rather large peice in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. However, I haven't figured out how to make it fit on the blog. When I figure it out, we will share.