January 26, 2010

• The clay challenge I mentioned before

  My pieces are finished, and while they aren’t quite what I’d hoped, I sent off the submission photo anyway. 

   

  We were to submit a piece that depicted our birthstone and/or birth flower – for me that’s June.  These two little girls just popped up in my sketch book one day, and that was the end of trying to design a pretty piece with roses and pearls.    A whole story came with them, about how they are misnamed – Pearl has the roses and Rose is wearing the pearls.  They also have siblings born in other months who are named for their months, or’ stones or flowers, too.  Garnet and April, January and Ruby.  Fortunately the Junes weren’t blessed with any boys – who knows what kinds of names they’d have gotten! 

  You may see other entries and vote for your favorites (voting is anonymous so don’t feel you must vote for my entry!) after the 28th of this month at the PCAGOE website. 

  The great-niece formerly known as Princess Rachel came up the other night to hang out and spend the night.  We had a great time giggling over a few secrets and then I introduced her to Skype video chat with Amy & Derek.  (Joe was on Guard duty and Jared had crashed for the night already.)  She was wearing her new chapeau, part of her ongoing development of her “look,” and I like it a lot.  Don’t you?

  

  She looks like Ethan now, doesn’t she?  Still very much her mother’s daughter, though, and also very much her Aunt Sandy’s niece.  (Dave’s sister – both the kids look like her, and Robin.  I guess they look like Dave but Sandy is the feminine version. )

  I had a bit too much fun playing with that photo in Photoshop, so I may switch it out to an un-messed-with-version.  Or not. 

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