Loverly Fishies

In honor of finishing my last week of classes tonight for term 4 at UMUC i decided to post my inbetween classes project. This is one of those started more than a year ago projects that never gets finished. I love to make things with fish on it so of course the bookshelf has alot... ALOT... of fish on it. So this week and next week i will bring it back out with my painting stuff and start working on it again.


Here is a close up of the pretty fishies. All of which i drew myself based on real fish from this book with like every fish in it from my snorkeling days in Okinawa.


I still haven't decided what to do on the sides of it so any help with ideas would be wonderful.

The Vase Rambling

At the request of Corinnea i decided to post my vase. One of the longest projects ever!!!! I hand built the vase using slabs of clay and then took more than a month to glaze it. I was unsure what the colors were going to do but i think i really like how they turned out. My favorite is the swirls on the side. I probably should have posted it sooner but i don't have the patience for the pictures to load! Anyways more to come later because i bought a whole tea set of bisque to glaze so that it matches my vase! Why i did that i don't know because i only like i think two types of tea. One of which i can only get in eqypt that i discovered while visiting there.

mushrooms, and owls, and flowers, OH MY

What could be a better way to start off a blog then with mushrooms that have owls sitting on them? Nothing! so here it is...



I decoupaged it with the cutest mushroom paper ever, and then used the cutest owl paper ever! The owl paper was even double sided, my pet peeve, and i managed not to get upset about not using the other side.
hmmm...maybe i shouldn't have posted this project first because it will make my other stuff look pathetic.