New Finished Pieces

So I finally finished my second snowman in the old shoe. I formed this guy out of foil then covered him in paper clay. It's hard to see his arms, but they are made from rusty wire. I think I like this guy better than the other one.


I finished this guy today as well. I've never made an owl before, but I think I love him! He's a little guy, but oh so cute! I already have another one started with a rounder body.

11 Months Holy Cow!

The months are just flying by! In a couple of days we will be 11 months old, and then 1 year! I've been starting the birthday party planning, making invitations and decorations. It's going to be a lot of fun.
We are learning all sorts of new things and we are getting into EVERYTHING! We crawl very fast and over anything in our way including our siblings.

I took a leap recently and joined the local YMCA. I weighed all of the angles. Would I actually get up a little earlier everyday and get the kids ready and drive to town? Does the child watch area's times work with our schedule? Are their workout classes I'll enjoy during those times? And then the realization that the babies will probably catch a cold here and there due to being around other kids. After thinking about it, I joined. It's nice to go in and leave the kids in the play room and have 90 minutes to workout not worrying about them. I went Mon - Thur last week. On Friday we all had colds. Really?? So we haven't been back this week yet. Maybe tomorrow, if we all sleep tonight...

Rylan is Mr. Speedy


Brileigh continues to ham it up.


Brett, showing mommy it's time to lower the mattress!


We do manage to play nice together once in a while. Our toys are getting a little stale, so it will be so nice to get some new birthday presents next month!

Happy Early Halloween

So I'm not going to parade my children around on Halloween. I'm the kind of person who is going to wait until my kids are old enough to understand Halloween before we go trick or treating. It is hard however to pass on all of the costumes! It would be fun to dress them up!

I did get them some Halloween shirts for the upcoming holiday. I have a cute "Mommies Monsters" picture frame that I picked up at Kohls. So we got our Halloween "outfits" on for a picture to put in the frame. Getting everyone together and smiling or even looking at the camera is a battle, so we take what we can get these days!


Rylan is a camera ham. He gets excited and starts posing every time I get the camera out!

Brileigh is certainly Wickedly Cute in her spider shirt!


And Brett was more interested in goofing off during our photo shoot then anything else!

Hive Creative Challenge

I'm participating the the Hive's Fall Creative Challenge. Here is a picture of my entry!

I made the pumpkin out of paper clay. I used a styrofoam ball for the pumpkin and molded the stem from foil and wire. I mounted the pumpkin on a paper mache' box that I covered with fabric. I finished it off by adding the sweet annie around the base of the pumpkin.


I've had a lot of fun working with paperclay and can't wait to make more things!

Fallen a Sleep

Here is my latest paper clay design. It's not a very good photo, the flash washed out all of the detail. I'll have to take a better one before he goes to the sale. It's kind of whimsy "ish". I had the head done and couldn't decide what I wanted to do with it. I thought a candy/cookie jar would be fun, so here he is! I'm still not sold on the plaid bow, but it needed something. The glittery tree is dimensional and sticks out.


And now to the reference in my title. Today at nap time the boys were rowdy, they didn't want to fall asleep. Brileigh obviously wanted to know what was going on.


She pulled down the bumper so she could spy on her brothers through the bars. But unlike her brothers, she was actually tired and fell asleep in spy mode! How cute is that!

Finished Cat & Dog

I finished my cat and dog, I think the details make the duo! I've already started on some new projects.


I made this doll a while back, but she didn't sell. So I puller her back out this year and added the wings and lighted basket. I think it's a vast improvement! Maybe she'll find a new home at this years show!


And I just had to add some photo's of the babies!

Rylan got tuckered out playing the other day and found a pillow to crash on.


Brileigh loves mom's lasagna!


Brett found a new place to play when I was in the kitchen making bottles!

Cat & Dog Figures

Alright, so I've got my cat and dog made and painted. What do you think? I had a lot of fun making them and I'm excited to start some more creatures! I don't know if I'm done with these guys or not though. When I sketched them out, I had drawn cloth pants on them. So do I still want to put pants on them? And do I want them to hold anything? I had made a fish and bone for them to hold, but I'm not liking how the fish turned out. The dog needs to hold something because his one arm is curved wrong and doesn't lay nice. Since these are for a winter show, maybe I'll tie a bow around the bone and have him hold it? I've got a little wreath I made that the cat can hold. Also I think I need to come up with a collar for them. What do you think??

P. S. I'm loving how their saddle shoes turned out!

Paperclay Snowman

I got my snowman done today. My first paperclay attempt, I learned some things. I originally was going to put a small bottle brush tree in his hands, but decided on the wreath. I made a few of those wreathes awhile back and they have been laying around just waiting for the perfect thing. I wish I hadn't stained the snowman as dark as I did. I used the tudor brown bri wax, and I should have used the light brown. Oh well, live and learn! I still think he turned out cute!

Baby Update

So we had our 9 month check up earlier this week. They have been growing like weeds! The boys are both 21 pounds 4 ounces, and Brileigh is 19 pounds 14 ounces. It's starting to get tough picking up more than one baby at a time with those weights! They are such good babies, always happy! We have been experimenting with food lately. They love their dad's pull pork!

Rylan especially shovels it in!


Brileigh is a good mess maker. Food usually ends up in her hair.


Brett eats anything he can get his hands on. They really love mac and cheese!


Brett also brought to my attention, we need safety locks on the cabinets!


What??

Work Progress

Well I'm happy to say I've been making some progress! Here is a shot of some of the items for my Handmade'ns show. I laid everything out for pricing, so it was a good time to take photos. I feel that I can relax a little bit now, knowing I'm ahead of schedule, and spend more quality time on one-of-a-kind items. I've got all sorts of things planned!


Here are some of the things I've started. I don't have much experience with paper clay, but have always wanted to try my hand at it. Years ago I bought these two little wood blocks. One was the C block and the other the D. When I bought them I thought it would be fun to do a Cat and Dog character with them. I just got them started the other day. The other one I have started is going to be a snowman. I'm going to put him in the old baby shoe holding a Christmas tree. We'll see how they turn out.