sycamore seed dragonflies

I'm enjoying our new blog name. Part of the reason for change was I'd hoped the word whimsy would encourage me to be even more open minded and find creative opportunities in more unlikely places - like these annoying little seeds that are all over our back lawn. I do like watching them spin when they fall from the tree though, so do the kids. Nature is pretty awesome.

We collected some of them up to make these dragonflies.

One day I might have one of those sleek and fancy stainless steel fridges (you now, the type with the cool thing in the door that makes ice!) but in the meantime our fridge looks like millions of others around the world- plastered with kids art, bills, reminders, invitations, lists and all sorts of magnets- and now some pretty dragonfly ones.

we cut the seed part off and painted the 'wing' bit

and painted some thin sticks

when they were dry, we added a coat of glitter paint

and I glued them onto strips of magnet using beads for eyes