A Simple Watercolor Painting
For the last 6 days of our 31 Days of Playing with the Arts series we are publishing a different project […]
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Curriculum
Blog posts that discuss curriculum, the course of study, and scope and sequence for a Christian classical liberal arts education. Answering the question: What do I teach in the Christian Classical Tradition?
First Steps in Drawing
For the last 6 days of our 31 Days of Playing with the Arts series we are publishing a different project each
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Playing with Music an Interview with John Hodges
Playing with Music an Interview with John Hodges, where we are discussing music, harmony, education, and listening. This was well worth the Wait! Day 25 of 31 Days of playing with the Arts.
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Playing with Cooking
“Just as it is good to get one’s fingers into the soil and plant seeds, so it is good to
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Playing with Food as Art ~ by Lisa Lubanovic
Cookery as an Art Form, by Lisa Lubanovic Playing with food has always been an interest I have had. Beginning
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Playing with the Digital Arts: Photography
Playing with the Digital Art: PhotographyI do not feel like I am the best person to be writing this, but
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Playing with Theater ~ The Art of Acting & Storytelling
“I maintain that the craft of acting always has some element of communication as part of its purpose in any
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Playing with Speaking & Rhetoric
“That is just rhetoric!” someone shouted as a speaker made his final statement while another shouted “I am not falling
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Playing with Poetry by Dara Weaver
Playing with Poetry by Dara Weaver I have always been in love with words and read everything I could get
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Playing with Fashion
Playing with Fashion What is fashion? What is the purpose? Where did it come from? Why are we consumed with
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Playing with Woodworking
“You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you
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Playing with Flower Arrangements
I love how Edith Schaeffer talks about this art in her book Hidden Art. She pours out a vision of
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Playing with Gardening by Dara Weaver
Gardening As Art by Dara Weaver {my sister muse} Having always been a nature-lover and maybe something of a hippie
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Myth: CM doesn’t work for those with learning disabilities.
Today I am over at After Thoughts Blog helping to bust the Myth that ‘CM doesn’t work for those with learning
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Playing with the Fabric Arts
Join me as I discuss with my friend Natalie about the Fabric Arts and more specifically sewing on day 13
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Playing with Hand Lettering
“The greatest thing in the world is the alphabet, as all wisdom is contained therein –except the understanding of
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Playing with Interior Design
“Interior design is not just one’s artistic efforts, but that which a home (even if it is just a room)
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Playing with Drawing
Drawing is interesting. I have always had a love-hate relationship with it, mostly because I have a tendency to be
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Playing with Mixed Media Art
I love mixed media art. When I sit down to do something creative, it is, usually, related to the mixed
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Playing with Watercolors by Lynn Seddon
Playing with Watercolours by Lynn Seddon {Post and Paintings by Lynn Seddon} For many years, I have kept a copy
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Playing with Painting ~ A Classical View by Katerina Kern
Ballerina Painting by Degas. Image in the public domain Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Degas, and Picasso; we all know, at
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Myth: CM and Memory Work Don’t mix
Today I am over at After Thoughts Blog helping to bust the Myth that ‘Charlotte Mason and Memory Work Don’t Mix’
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31 Days of Playing with the Arts
Welcome! During the Month of October, we will be taking a leisurely look at the arts. We will entertain thoughts
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To Be Enchanted or Not: 5 more Tips to Transform your Reading
This week in the Expanding Wisdom community we began reading Dante’s Inferno. Someone brought up a comment related to the
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To Read or Not to Read: 5 Tips to Transform your Reading
As a busy homeschooling mom, it is easy for me to put all of my needs and desires on the
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