Donna Young

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My mother made some of these many years ago. She gave some that she made to me and gave me supplies to make more. They look cute hanging on the tree and are very easy to make. Chapstick man is holding one of the ornaments in the image.

Materials:
-Several brightly colored scraps of fabric (will […]

Drawing real objects is an important learning technique for budding artists. My daughter typically draws from her imagination and while that is okay, drawing imaginary subjects does not add to her skill as much as the painful experience of drawing from life. This year many of her art lessons are drawing from life. This has […]

Donnayoung.org is getting made over. DY is going to be completely redone page by page and the colors will be changed to blue and white. DY used to be blue and I liked it. I’m not sure why I changed it to its current color scheme. The first DY was white with roses, how girly […]

The unthinkable has happened. I am tired of drinking coffee, so tired of it that I am considering taking a long break from drinking it. However, I do not want to do without a hot beverage especially now that cold weather is coming. I do not drink sweet drinks routinely and that eliminates almost every […]

When my children were younger, I had them do something that I called timed writing. I’m not sure what I can say about it to recommend it except to say generically — It helped them. They started out at the first of the school year, sort of freezing or taking too long at the process […]