February 28, 2010
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Odds and ends and bits and pieces - catching up.
First, a few things I've been doing in clay...
I fixed the house purse. And here is its backside:
I think it fixed up quite nicely.
Also, I wanted to try my hand at some "faux" materials. I started with faux bone. Here's my first piece:
The wooden pieces are clay too. I made those mixtures about a year ago. I think it's pretty good. I have some more beads of a different design waiting to be aged.
And I wanted to make my own version of a Japanese Netsuke sculpture. I started with this little guy:
He's got issues - like his legs bent forward so he looks a bit like a cartoon character skidding to a stop, and the design on his back is basic and not very controled, but his texture is great - sandpaper makes him feel like a real turtle, and I love his head and face. I'll try another.
And then Rachel got her ears pierced again (they'd grown shut from when she was much younger.) and I offered to make some earrings for her own unique style:
Apart from the butterfly, these are all symbols from Naruto, a manga series she's loved for years. And here she is modeling her favorite:
These are based on the fan her favorite character, Temari, carries. The fan is some kind of weapon, I believe.
Faron has asked me to make a barn to go with a couple of the small houses I've made and that sit around the house. He told me what he wanted and here is the sketch from which I'm working:
I have made the basic structures' cardboard supports for baking, and hope to get them covered and baked tomorrow so I can start on the fun part of decorating the barn to look like a barn!
On a completely different note, Dr Wallace bombarded ExpressScripts with prescriptions for me - here are two of the bottles that arrived here last week:
The little bottle contains 90 very little pills. The large one contains 3 times that in very large pills. Lucky me! I just thought the comparison was a bit silly.
And finally, Faron got a deep fryer for Christmas. And every year at Presidents' Day, he gets a hankerin' for cherry pie. He combined these two things to come up with his own version of those nasty pies McDonald's sells.
He used Pillsbury ready to use crusts, cut into quarters and folded and sealed shut. The dough cooked up so well! Yummy! They are fantastic. We're making them again next weekend when Jason and Tiana come up for dinner. And we'll have caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream for the apple ones. Jason says they will be perfect then. (He was here for the first round.) Not that he's thought about it at all.
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