Messy, messy feet prints

This is not quilting, as you can probably tell from the photos.

My good friend Elena gave me these four little four little canvases when I was out to visit her in Ontario. Her great idea was that I should do footprints of each of the kids. (Read next part with sarcasm.) What a marvelous idea! Paint! Kids! More kids! More paint! Paint on feet! New lino in kitchen!

I was thinking very clearly how NOT appealing this was.

But I thanked her because I know that she has good ideas, it's just that executing them is sometimes tricky. (There was also "canvases as gifts" when I had my second baby that I was supposed to paint with little characters. For Elena, the prospect of painting a little picture is probably very appealing. I am less inclined towards drawing and more towards fabric. I also know that Elena is expecting baby #1 this month and hasn't experienced the joy of bringing out a bunch of paints with little kids. Soon, though...)

So I did it one night while my cousin was here and it actually wasn't as bad as I was imagining. We even did one of the footprints on a sleeping child, my 2 year old, who is the most likely candidate for kicking the wall with a painted foot.

Unfortunately, after I finished them, I wondered what I was going to do with these four little paintings. And then I found the perfect place... above their coat hooks.

Thanks Elena! (Read with zero sarcasm.)

PS True, Elena did end up painting those three little character canvases she gave me--and I love them!