Made this chandelier for our ugly lamp over our dinning room table. I think it looks much better than just the lamp hanging there. Also it was free to make since it was made from excess lamanate that I was going to throw away.

And here is a full Shot

Painted a Picture for Bibi, Richard’s mom because she loves roosters and her whole kitchen has everything rooster.

Other boxes that were painted and then sealed with flaxseed oil.

I wanted to try my hand at making a dress from a sketch and so I offered to make my cousin’s wedding dress. It started off with us sketching back and forth about different ideas and we settled on this one. Then I found a pattern that matched the body as close as possible and then just kind of made up the rest. I think it turned out great, with only a minor glitch with a sleeve that I never was able to fix. The dress was actually three layers, two cotton and a crinkled rayon. I ended up taking in large seams from the waist to the thigh to make the dress kind of flare out a bit at the bottom. We were going for something light, no fluffy skirts!, but elegant. For the back we went for the look of the buttons, without all the hassle, so there is a zipper behind them and some hooks to keep the buttons over the zipper. To put the buttons on speedily I glued them into place and then stitched them on so they were all evenly spaced. Amazingly I did not get so mad as to almost burn the dress, which shocked me because I thought for sure I would be sick of it at the end. The part that gave me the biggest worry was when I cut the dress for the big swooping layer of fabric because if it didn’t work then i would have just cut the dress in half literally for nothing. Oh and the edge of the swooping layer was burned with a wood burner to seal it and keep it from fraying rather then weigh it down with a hem. So I had a good time and the bride was happy too!

The following illustrations are for Ferdinand The Bottle-Headed Cat written by Marv Cummings and published by Bookman Publishing. They are pencil drawings based on the author’s descriptions. The drawings are owned by the author and used with his permission.