Glitter Hands

When your mom is an art teacher, you don't mind going to her classroom on the weekend while she preps for the week.  The result is almost always glitter hands!

Edible Art

Since becoming a mom, I have not had as much time to focus on creating art as I would like to.  One thing I have figured out is how to blend being artistic with my responsibilities as a parent.

Giving birth to my first child also resulted in giving birth to a new form of art: cake decorating.  I get pretty involved with the design of each cake, each one even has a matching hand-drawn invitation.  They look good, and taste yummy too! Expand this post to see more cake art!

Mrs. Mama

Tomorrow I will begin teaching art classes with the school's youngest group.  My daughter is part of the Nursery class of three-year-olds at the school where I work.  For me this means that tomorrow, for the first time (formally), I will become my child's teacher.  For my daughter, this means that for the first time her Mama will become more than just Mama.  

I don't really know what to expect and I have to admit that I am a little bit nervous.  

Art teachers have bones in their hair.

What, you didn't know that? 

It is a well-known fact amongst children that their art teacher often has bones in her hair.  You see, when you have long locks and work with painting children you are bound to end up with paint in your hair. During the course of the day the paint will dry and become a hard stick embedded in your mane. 

When you get home from work you will engage in a game of beauty parlor with your three-year-old daughter. As you take a seat in the beautician's chair for a princess updo she will exclaim, "Mama, you've got bones in your hair!"  

I think this term should be added to The Funny Dictionary. 
Hair Bone. n. the phenomenon of having something dry in your hair that makes it hard as a bone. Those typically afflicted include kids who eat syrup, brick layers who work with mortar, dogs who roll in the mud, and elementary art teachers.