Showing posts with label paper mache. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper mache. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2009

Beautiful day.















It's raining and thundering here today. Not everyones typical " beautiful " day but it's my kind of day. I just hope it doesn't get humid out. Yuck!

Had a great weekend. Didn't get a lot done however and I fell on my stump on Friday. Sure hope I didn't screw something up. The Dr.'s office just called. I guess as long as I didn't bust anything open I should be fine. Sure zaps my confidence for going up and down stairs though.

On a happy note. I should be getting my IT guy in today from The Cubes figures. Sure hope I can get the rest of them before they vanish. Sucks I missed out on getting pat. Really wanted the break room set. I have a few funny ideas for some.

Had another blessed weekend sitting out by the pond. I had wanted a Koi pond for quite awhile but had no idea about the Dragonflies. I seem to be enjoying them as much as I am the koi and pond. I figured we'd get a few eventually but never anticipated the amount or variety that we're getting. It's even compelled me to get a book on insects so that I could identify them. The way they mate is beyond comprehension. Truely odd. I've been getting some really great pictures of them though. I'm still amazed at where they came from. How far they have to fly to get here every day and where they go at night.

I still don't seem to be in the Halloween mood. Perhaps because subconciously I know I still can't do anything but wheel myself around in the wheelchair and ask for this or that to the unlucky person that happens to be home to help. I'm excited about fall though. Hoping I'm doing well enough on my prosthetic leg to get around and go to a corn maze. I could do something small at the kitchen table with paper mache but still couldn't get anything out or put it away. So that's a bust. Still tempting however.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Halloween








Halloween- I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!! It's by far my favorite time if the year. The think I enjoy the most I think is walking in the corn mazes. I haven't been able to do that for two years now so I'm hoping this year will be the year I'm able to do it again.

Not being able to Geocache or do Stained Glass kind of pushed me in this direction as I don't like idle hands when they are mine. I decided that I was going to make some stuff after visiting my nephews house and seeing something he made. He had a really neat scene at his house last year. I stuck with something small that I could handle being a cripple.

Her name is Agnes. That's her in the pic on this blog. I started off with a styrofoam head like the one above Agnes. I only needed to use the head for a starting shape. I cut the face off of it and started clean. She's made out of paper mache. Her eyes were simple wooden balls painted white with a little red. An iris printed from paper and glued to each and then two part epoxy painted over both. Gives them a real good look. She stirs a big cauldron and you can see her in action here. Don't forget to check out the other videos of her .