Felt Purses

From kits that G brought back from Taiwan.

Creations

By M2.

Art Class II

G needed a second day in the studio to finish her tree watercolor. (Above, with San YeePoh and AhPoh.) In reading her daily journals, it seems a bit of a revelation for her to use so many different colors, not just brown, on the trunk.

Chatting with some fellow students.

Art Class

G spending a couple days (and nights) in Hsinchu with San YeePoh. They have a well-respected art teacher there – my cousin Amber took classes from her for years, and San YeePoh is a current student – G's taking some classes, above, using watercolors.

p.s. Earlier in the week G "survived" her third typhoon (Megi) in two weeks!

Art Studio

Crash course in strokes and brushes.

Big Legos

These have been really popular at our house lately.

Nacho's Throne

Homemade Slippers

G and BB spent all afternoon constructing these. They sandwiched some cardboard in between some felt and a broken binder cover (purple). Unfortunately super glue leaked through and left those powdery white spots on G 's slippers, so they determined that hot glue was much better for their purposes.

Quilt for Nacho

11-Layers

Skirt I made for her. Matches one I made for BB.

Lego set from the younger kids.

Ukelele kit. Took us a few days to assemble and stain. Thought she might like to stencil something to the body, but she decided not to. Stringing the thing was an educational experience for me, got some basics off YouTube.

Book of Disney songs from BB.

Eleven-layer jello "cake" (aka monstronsity) that she made herself over the course of two days. Also had failed first jello cake for breakfast – yes, some of us are a little sick of jello right now.

Paintings

Girls won these paintings at Coronation fish fry silent auction. Kind of fun to have hand-painted (not print) artwork. Did some research, these are likely student reproductions. (Amusing article about Henry Rogers paintings, segue into artist Caroline Burnett, which is the name on G's painting.)

Road Trip!

Lunch and afternoon at MO Star Quilt Company. My favorite fabric was the pirate charm pack by Riley Blake.

Our New Bernie

Gluing Gems

Tulle Skirt

Sword and Shield

Sixth Day of Christmas

 Kiwi Crate for Z and M making a claw to grab pom-poms. Think old fashioned arcade game.

 Velvet art set from piano teacher.

 Bracelet making kit for both G and BB from piano teacher.

 3D puzzle of Sagrada Familia.

Koala Crate making polar bear accessories to be used together with snowballs for catching game, snowflake print wrapping paper activity.

 Delicious sausage and cheese box (Swiss Colony) from Aunt Theresa and Uncle Micheal.

 Finished claw.

More Pop Beads

St James, the Peg Doll

Gak Bubble