Fairie Festival

The "Carrie Fairy" is back again! Well, actually this is the top of a page I'm designing about how to make your own fairy wings. The page is running this weekend because of the Fairie Festival at Spoutwood Farm in Glen Rock. I'll post the entire page design as soon as I get my wings photographed. 

Easter egg girlie girl

For our annual Easter craft page, I came  up with something a little bit different. The headline was "Eggs-press yourself"! The idea was a collaboration between myself and Sue, with the idea being personality stereotypes or high school clique clichés. I really like how each of the little egg outfits turned out. The pattern for the egg outfits can be printed out at www.flipsidepa.com, our website for the "Flipside" section of the York Daily Record. The outfits fit around the cardboard tube from a paper towel or toliet paper roll. And large or extra large eggs fit very nicely on the tube/outfit/egg stand. Happy Easter everyone!

Sporty Easter egg

My attempt at creating an athletic egg.... 

Preppy Easter egg

Here's my preppy easter egg complete with argyle, polka dots and the "monogramed initials" of our paper the York Daily Record. 

Easter Egg punk/goth

My dark side coming out a bit.... 

Easter egg hippie

Here's one of my quirky creations for our Easter egg craft. 

Abstract art page design

I'm secretly trying to get as much yellow as possible into our newspaper. And I had so much fun with this page, because I got to make a mess! Well, at least in the computer.... I wanted to find a way to make art approachable and give kids a way to create something that makes art where there are no right or wrong answers and lots of scribbling outside of the lines. I hope some of our readers actually use this exercise. While doing some research to put this page together I stumbled across an AWESOME site: JacksonPollock.org   Check it out. When you call up the site you'll have a blank canvas before you and with each click of your mouse the "paint" changes color. Depending on how you move your mouse the "paint" will drip accordingly. Have fun!

Here's my very first "by-line"! This is an idea I've used for making boxes out of Christmas cards, but really it works for any holiday. I actually used one of the boxes I'd made to hold my sweetie DB's valentine (tickets to see the Blue Man Group at the Giant Center in Hershey!)