Refrigerator Art

The glitter doodles featured in this month’s new kit “Sweet Innocence” reminded me so much of my children’s past refrigerator artwork. You know - the “still wet” glitter, glue creations that you were greeted with at daycare and mostly ended up on your car seats before you reached home. I remember the entire refrigerator being plastered with hanging clothespin renditions of rainbows, pirate ships, happy faces, etc…

Soon the portfolio of portraits became to large for the fridge and I wanted a way to look at these creations without digging apart a large storage box. Many pieces were too large, too fragile or too three-dimensional to store easily without damaging them. I had just purchased a scanner for my computer, and my idea to scan their artwork at a reduced size, was the perfect solution to preserving their creations. It also gave me a chance to write memories associated with each piece of art and include all of this on my scrapbook layouts.

I will always cherish these little gifts given to me by my children when they were young. I can still remember their beaming faces as they presented them to me. I also have fond memories of them sitting at a yellow and orange Fisher Price, plastic picnic table quietly drawing while I prepared dinner. Now that they are both teenagers, I have their scanned artwork stored on my computer to remember younger years, and much of it, I have incorporated into their scrapbooks to share with future generations.

Written by Beth Ervin, Creative Team Member, CottageArts.net