Wood burned faries

So as you can tell I am trying to get caught up on some of the stuff I have been doing for the last 3 years since I went back to collage (which has come to an end) I did not graduate even though I had great grades life happened and well life gives you a bend in the road and a path to go down the bend or keep on the path you are on.  Well I took the bend even if it meant not graduating. 
 I will not post everything in that time as I can't remember everything I did and made but I will post a few just so in the future my kids know what I did when they look at the blog.  This project through was done by my daughter China in our woodworking class we took together.  She is making a chest of drawers and wants faries all over it.  A lot of these photos where never meant to be on my blog so they may not be the best images... but I am still in love with them all the same for the time and effort she has put into this.  This was my daughters first attempt at wood burning she is self taught the class is for cabinet making not wood burning.

Wood sewing cabinet and wood eggs

This is a project I started a year ago and got put on hold because of work and school and just life in general.  It is meant to be a cabinet to hold home sewing machines. That has a drop down table to sew on.  When it is finished it has doors with shelves in them to hold sewing  supplies like hard plastic rules and such.

I hope to get this finished by Christmas and in my sewing room to be used even though it is not  large the storage space it will create in my small sewing space will be amazing It will clear off so many counters in there.

I hope to get the front of it wood burned my middle daughter has agreed to draw an image on it and burn it with me.

doors

These are some eggs my oldest daughter , China, turned for me in her woodworking class.  I received them in my Easter basket.  My middle daughter drew the images and the oldest wood burned them.

progress on pull tab maille

China had made a little progress on her project back in November but I had never shown it.  She adjusted one of my dress forms to her size and worked on the piece on the dress form.  Some mods happened afterward as she had made the armscye too small for her arm to fit through.  Thus causing her to drop the area under the arm a little lower to accommodate this flaw.

She still has some work to do on the hem line of the piece.  This is only for coz play this technique but you can get fun patterns and designs with the so many colors of pull tabs available.  They are hooked together with regular links used in making chainmaille.

The funny part was on the back she was mirroring the pieces she had left to right and didn't realize she had made a face.  When her sisters and I told her there was a face she saw it and went back and reworked some sections purposely emphasis it more

The Outpost on the CW (and my daughter)

My oldest daughter , China Khoral,  is the sound effects editors on the new CW series "The Outpost".  Would love to know what people think of this new series.

Pull tab scale maile

My oldest daughter  China, is working on a found art project for school.  It is to be scale maile made from different pull tabs...she has been collecting them all over the UVU campus to make this project.... You can see from these photos it keeps changing and being reworked as she finds more and more tabs.

She is using pull tabs and jumper rings to make this

first set of progress photos

second set

third set

I will post more updates as she gets further into this.

Irish crochet dress

My oldest daughter made another dress for her little cousin who will be born in a few months.  The first dress was for 0-3 months this one is for 3-6 mos.  She was surprised at how much more time it takes to make a dress that small with only a minor size change.

Once again it is size 10 thread and a hook size of 9.  She used light blue for the detailing of the roses and around the edges.

0-3 months white dress

My oldest daughter had been working on a gift for a baby cousin that had yet to be born.   This is for a kind aunt and uncle, my in laws, who let us stay with her when we had mold damage in our bathroom of our home which caused us to leave our home.  Which took several months to remedy.  The aunt uncle  are kind and let us stay at their home through an operation on one kid and several illnesses in my children they where and are good sports about the whole thing.  We love them dearly.

This dress is hand crocheted in size 10 thread.  My daughter added 2 antique mother of pearl buttons to the back and tons of ribbon roses to the dress.

New Silhouette

My oldest just got back from Disneyland where she was a nanny for a family for a week.

She kept a tradition alive of getting a silhouette while there.  Best gift ever.

Thank you China Khoral in real life she works as a sound editor she has her own IMDB page  Please check it out.  She earned it at the age of 17 she is nearing 19 years old now.   She goes to the same collage I do, nice to be able to spend time with her.  I guess most would think it weird to go to collage with your kid but actually seems sort of normal.  I think she will go far in life she has a great start.