Projects from the Last Few Months

I have been so busy lately! Between being in the hospital, dog training, art endeavors, and College things, there hasn't been time for much else. However I have been very productive artistically. 

 My "Flower Mug". Does anyone have any ideas on what color I could Glaze it?

 This is a Bud Vase. It will probably be a light green color.

The next few pictures are Bubbles the Fish. I'm thinking of painting scales of different shades of blue and green. Any thoughts?

 This is "Jawn". He is a Hedgehog. He will be a pretty brown when he is finished.

And here is Bubbles the Fish and "Jawn" the Hedgehog together!

As a bon as here is a picture of Rori!!

She likes to swing on the porch swing with me!

 

Handmade Christmas

I know this is a bit late, however we didn't finish our Christmas celebrations until last Saturday! Anyway, we decided to have a "handmade" Christmas this year. Here are the things I made for my mother and sisters. 

I made these in a few differnt colors but I forgot to take pictures before I wrapped them!

I made my mother a mosaic hand trowel.

I still need to put a weather proof finish on it. I think it turned out well!

Gifts

A few of my friends and I are very big Doctor who fans. This is what I made for one if their birthdays! 

First sculpture project

While in the hospital for the past few days  I have been hard at work on a few projects! Starting on October 1st my mother and I will have a booth at a little shop in Taylor that has things from various local artist. So I have been working on Christmas ornaments, tatted necklaces, and tatted bookmarks. 

However the project that I am most proud of at this moment (even though she isn't quite finished...) is the fairy sculpture I started on Wednesday! Her form is finish except for a few touchs and I need to make her wings and a bouquet for her to hold.

Her hair is going to be a light lilac color with silver streaks in it. Her dress is going to be a deep amethyst hopefully. She is also going to have wings made of amethyst fantasy film.

Here are also some of the necklaces I have been working on!

I have a bad tendency to make them to small so I have to work on that!

Choir Tour in Hawaii

    Can you believe that it's already July! It seems like it was New Years just a couple of days ago. So much has happened in the last six months and yet I can't remember half of it. (Sad commentary on my memory ;)..) 
    I can remember the big stuff though. My brother got married, and now they are expecting their first baby! I graduated! I got a dog! My high school Church choir went to Hawaii for choir tour!
    All of these were pretty big things. I won't ever go back to high school. I will have Rori for many, many years. But Hawaii was probably one of the most amazing things I will have done this year. I had heard a plethora of different opinions on Hawaii, both good and bad. I had seen an abundance of pictures, mostly of blue waters, flowers, and palm trees, but nothing could have prepared me for just how beautiful it was. 
    I live in Texas, and I lived in Missouri before. They both have their pros and cons, and Hawaii has it's pros and cons as well. However the moment we got off that plane we were assaulted by the most magnificent fragrance I have ever smelled in my life! and it just got better from there. 

   This was where we were staying. We held a sports camp and VBS here for three days of our trip. We also had a community outreach, a homeless ministry, and a mission project. 

   

This was the view from the church we had our first worship service at. 

   We went the the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was amazing! 

   We got to go to a traditional Luau. 

   They had these really delicious smoothies in hollowed out pineapples.

   

   We also got to the the Pearl Harbor Memorial.  That was one of the most emotional things I have ever been to. A lot of those boys weren't much older than I am.

  

  We have something on Choir Tour called Senior Night, where the seniors get to go with our choir director and do something none of the others get to do. We went on a Navitek Dinner Cruise. We then tried to convince everyone that we had actually gone to a goat farm.  It would have worked but one of the sponsors spoiled our fun by telling everyone what we really did.

   We also got to make our own leas.

   Here are some more beautiful pictures from Oahu.