Ah yes, it’s summer. And when the kids are not in camp, they are tasked with finding ways to entertain themselves, much as we did when we were kids.
We are lucky to have a few kids in the neighborhood who don’t live far from us, and our kids are able to congregate and hang amongst the houses and yards.
I was impressed the other day to find that my daughter and her friends had occupied themselves for a few hours with ‘rock art’ (a term we came up with, but I’m sure we didn’t invent). They used pretty Sharpie pens on the rocks in front of our house, and decorated each one with designs, words and pictures. When they showed me their collection, I was so impressed with their creativity.
There were a couple rocks in the collection that caught my eye – I just loved the images on them. The infinity with ‘love’ incorporated into the line was so unique and sweet. I decided it would look great on a necklace, so I took a close-up photo of it and got working on the photo in Photoshop. I cleaned it up a bit and had to get rid of the little gold dots, but what I ended up with was a beautiful and sweet image to etch onto a charm. A few hours later we had a sterling silver version of it, ready for photos!
We had a lot of fun with this idea and wanted to share it with our customers. If you see an image or draw an image you just love and would love to wear, let us know! We would love to make it into a charm for you.
They took the rock art a step further by decorating rocks with the names and themes of each of the businesses on our little strip where our studio is. Each business got a set of rocks that represented their business or had the business name. They left the rocks at the doorstep of each unit. What a sweet surprise for them to find at their doorsteps the following day!
My youngest got into it too…so cute!
