Cora's Special Plate

This is the project I did at "The Pottery Place" here in town, where you paint pottery and they fire it to turn it into glazed magic. I made a tile for Evan when he was sealed to us in the Los Angeles Temple but that time I had my sister Ashley to help me. I was all 'alone' this time (the kids were with me in the stroller. there should have a been a camera to record the hilarity of me trying to be creative while babysitting my mildly cranky children. lol). I am proud to say I completely free handed the temple from a photo I took lately. I didn't even pencil it first (which burns off in the firing process) so you could say I'm impressed with myself! :). Anyway, this is the before and after for firing it in the kiln (all photos taken from my camera phone if they look weird:

 Front Before

After

Back Before

Back side After.

Evan, Mike's and my thumbprints below Cora's hand print. If I wasn't in such a hurry/kids weren't with me, I would have liked to embellish this and also to make the whole thing look more polished. Overall I am very pleased! It is a treasure that I hope Cora will love all her life. I am also planning to water color them each a picture of the temple they were sealed in, by itself, no writing on it. I have never used water colors before but they can't be harder than this pottery paint... right? ;) We shall see. he he he.

CRAFTS

As I have been searching high and low in my house for things to donate to my friend Gretchen's Adoption Yard Sale (see spotlight at top of my blog), I came across these little step stools. When I bought them in the $2.50, bin at Target, I had great intentions of using them... for something. Two years later, they have collected so much dust! :) Instead of just putting them in my boxes of collected things, I decided to finally embellish them before sending them off to a more deserving home. So I Mod Poged them into "Time Out" chairs for a boy and girl. I could have made them both unisex but had more fun doing this. They turned out super cute, don't you think!? Gretchen, I promise to either bring this stuff to church Sunday or your house next week?

This next craft is for my Visiting Teaching Assignments. I got Family Fun magazine this month (great family project mag!) because of the cute project on the cover. I went home and made it immediately. I have 4 sisters to visit and had exactly 4 lunch sacks left. :) If you want to make these too, this is what you need:

Paper lunch sack, Tacky Glue, Twigs, Cute Helper. :)



Finished (still wet glued) project. So cute! I plan to fill it with goodies and an Easter message. I hope you make it too, have fun!