Buche de Noel...for birthday cake

Used whipped cream shaded with cocoa..so it didn't get too dark...wasn't intent, but didn't want to add food coloring, and wanted the lightness of the cream vs frosting. Made the mushrooms (too big, but)...meringue.

Holiday Cards 2017...Felt, Intarsia Knit, Glitter Pom Poms

Couldn't get my niece to wear the big pom pom topped knit cap Friday, but my snow people were willing (and smiling)!

    

Guest Artist...Art favors.

She made a "take home" for each guest.  Each unique, and with a little "story" on most. 

Cream Puff Turkey

Super fast construction .. 1/4 water, 1 cup sugar...sticks them together. Used small dowels to make tail feather.  Didn't have enough time (ahem.. fast construction) to work through wings...just used construction paper. Used a lemon to help anchor the cream puff dowel tail upright.

Thanksgiving day walk...turkeys and bread

On Thankgiving....first on trail were a group of turkeys (and a young buck)...a little later, a scattering of bread cubes here and there.  Hmmmm....self- basting is one thing, self -stuffing?!

Thanksgiving is tomorrow....

Is supposed to be 70 F degrees tomorrow -- Thankgiving. Helping over at my brother's house this afternoon to get ready...took a shot of the "night before" ...cozy inside and out!

Cell Phone Tea Pot

Assignment was to make a teapot...with the seed planted for a walk on the more unusual side.
I thought of the ritual of tea....including growing up with my relatives from my Dad's side...it was tea and talking -- the visit.

Thought of the way much of visiting nowadays is done "virtual" -- on cell phone, facetime, etc.  So, my tea pot is a cell phone.  Wanted the scale to stay somewhat the same, so it won't hold much hot water...still thin.  Not sure the tunnel in the tube will stay "passable" by water...needed to use extruder, but didn't get to it, so just poked through tube with narrow stick. The cord may help act as handle, but figure it would require touching the "pot" (phone) to lift to pour.

I don't really need anything like this hanging around, so, I plan to smash it before firing....after I show it as "assignment done!"