Shared Desk

I was surfing the web as Amelia took her 2 hour siesta, when I glanced down and started laughing.  Amelia and I apparently share a desk.

Since she was able to, she has climbed up on the chair next to me and either drew, glued, sorted and/or cut paper, string, sticks and anything else that I may have left out.  She has about 5 or 6 notebooks (in the basket that also includes paper scraps) that she uses to doodle in with her favorite black sharpie or the crayons, pencils and other markers she has at her disposal.  There are some I won’t let her touch…let me rephrase: there are some I would rather she not touch.   She creates masterpieces that I date and label, frame or put in her art box, thinking eventually there will be so many I will have to choose which to keep.  Gasp.

Here's how it got this way:  

I bought some pink buttons for my niece's 1st birthday invite ("cute as a button"!) that I am working on and had put them in the small altoids tin, Amelia found that and emptied into the flower pots that are eventually going in our Fairy House that is still in the works.  She wanted the "blue thing" from another dish I have that is actually a flash light...that entertained her briefly.    The glue and popsicle sticks are for our current project  http://www.marthastewart.com/how-to/popsicle-stick-house .  She found a stencil and used that to make pictures of moose (she says they are moose drawings) with her new inkjoy pens I got her.   Lastly, the scissors that she uses all the time to fray the edges of paper.  Quite the artist.  

And what's even more funny...my side is messier!  HAHAHAHHAHA.  

UPDATE: we have added a couple My Little Ponies to our collection.  Here is the complete collection minus one that was still drying off in the bathroom as mom forgot to take it out of the tub from her bath the night before.  

55 and counting.  We have a hodgepodge of accessories that she uses for the ponies that includes a Barbie salon chair, Dora truck and a bathtub (will have to ask Andrea where that came from).  Maybe they can use the popsicle house we are making!

Have a great week.