Make A Paw Print Painting With Your Pet, step by step
Simply in time for John’s 27th birthday, Burger whipped up an original paw painting for his doting dad. He’s a regular Jackson Pawlock, I tell ya.
It was in fact a cute little project that Burger and I took on together, and he had an inordinate amount of lively throughout the process (even afterwards at bathtime). I grabbed an 8.5×11 piece of white cardstock to serve as the canvas and some water based craft paint (which I squirted onto a plate). Then I simply carefully dipped his front right paw into the paint puddle and let him dance it out on the cardstock.
The only essential point to mention is to be sure you snatch up your pooch after his stompfest and thoroughly wash that paw before he scampers off onto the rug or the couch (we did the whole thing in the kitchen on the wood floor) and if you have a bigger pup you can consistently close doors or otherwise block off doorways to rooms that are less wipe-able in case puppy makes a break for it.
Slipped into a crisp white frame with a generously sized white mat (Target, $12) it in fact looks like real art:
And although John adored his artful little puppy painted prezzie, I also got him a few practical and borderline professional (by our standards anyway) gifts for lively in the kitchen. The first being a 12″ Cuisinart Green Gourmet skillet coated with Ceramica, a new eco-friendly nonstick coating (similar to glass or ceramic) which keeps food sliding right off without any harmful off gassing or food leeching like Teflon. It certainly was not low-cost but as John’s mom so eloquently pointed out as I pondered whether I should spring for it, we will have it for years. And we enjoy it. We have never had quality cookware before, so consider us smitten.
And along the same “quality cookware” theme I also picked up two especially sharp J. A Henckels knives and a pleasant little bamboo box for storing them (as opposed to those plastic knife sleeves- we are on a BPA/plastic-free kick even when it comes to our knives). Contrary to popular belief, John’s in fact the chef of our family and since unwrapping his new toys he’s been even more excited to slice, dice and saute. Which of course is fabulous news for me and Burger the begger.
