Odds and Ends

Here's the platypus I made for my monsters. I'll do a family portrait once I get his leash made.

And here's the endless stars I've been working on. I'll have to make myself stop with the star-making and start with the garland-stringing before this gets even more out of hand.

Get Drunk Make Art Party

Last month, we held a party in honor of my husband's 29th birthday. In addition to the regular cake and booze and fondue pot, we set up a get drunk and make art area. It was lots of fun. Here's a few of the art projects that were made:

Many many cranes were made.

A snake and bunny combo (don't look Kelly!) created because someone's ex wife had switched from owning pet bunnies to raising them to feed to her new husband's snakes - which we all agreed was creepy. Bunnies and snakes are great - it was just a weird reversal we thought.

Other art included a balloon with the name Becki stamped all over it, a psychadelic mushroom, and several odd paper thingies including a birthday card for my husband. I highly approve of drunken artmaking, but I was unfortunately too on the drunk side to make much art (damn those tequila spiked limeades!).

The next party I'm attending is going to have a get drunk make art station specifically for making masks. I think its a very cool idea.

Pottery Class Skulls and More

I'm hooked on puffy origami stars. I'm envisioning a humongo garland of them that I can drape around a room - or maybe just my ficus tree if the urge goes away. Pottery class update! Here's two of the skulls I made plus a litlle cat head. I'm going to incorporate them into a day of the dead art project. People in my pottery class are starting to give me strange looks.
Here's the other two. I promise that I'm working on my lackluster photography skills. Promise!
And a little pot I did. The glazing isn't great, but I'm learning and having fun. Not much else counts in my book.