Sunday, September 27, 2009

Painting Windows

There were window crayons...

and paint-making with a recipe from a book called Glues, Brews and Goos: liquid dish detergent, cornstarch and food coloring ("Mom, can you believe people eat this stuff?").
Eliza thought it was a lot like potion-making...
...and then she settled into making magic appear on her window.
We finished the afternoon with squash muffins smothered in apple butter. Yum.

I loved Eliza's window - she wanted to make an apple tree and a pumpkin, and somehow that pumpkin's vine wound its way around the frame of the window to wrap around (in a non-sinister way, really) the trunk of the apple tree. Ah, fall, we love you so.

Dan and I obsessed all morning over a new game from my sister's family, called Quiddler (he is showing great restraint right now, sitting across from me reading Marco De Marines' The Performance Text instead of trying to beat me...again...) while the girls played with a friend who had spent the night. Lots of negotiations and compromises...phew, are those ever exhausting. We listened to about three hours of the Bunnicula stories while painting, drawing, and making muffins, ran around for a bit climbing trees and chasing squirrels, and to bed! I spent a short time canning some hot peppers from our trip to the market and now I am wondering who in the heck is going to eat them, 'cause my fingers are burning, people. They are that hot.

5 comments:

Merry said...

I'm missing my apple butter!!! Yes, I could buy some here, but somehow Ohio apple butter is so much better! (Say that 6 times!)

5 orange potatoes said...

I am so doing the cornstarch and soap painting tomorrow! Our windows need a washing anyway! mmmmmm, applebutter! I'm going to make some this weekend. Will be the first time.

lisa

Tan Family said...

We love our window crayons, too! What are those amazing, large, round things at the top of your blog that you all are walking on?

gardenmama said...

i love the paintings on the windows, how fun! and yay for potions : ) my children spend many moments making wonderful potions!

slim pickins said...

I think the paints will make many appearance on our windows...Ani has discovered how much fun they are to, ahem, chip away at, so we're thinking of "painting out" a whole window for the purpose of drawing with a pencil eraser or popsicle stick or something...

Tan Family (Jennifer?)- those are hay bales!!