HS Open House & Clay ~
So, as I mentioned in yesterdays post, we had HS open house last night since my oldest will be in 9th grade next year. We haven't heard the best of things about this school and we really just wanted to see for ourselves. Let me tell you how pleasantly surprised we were! The 9th graders are pretty much segregated in their own wing called the Freshman Academy. They rarely interact with other grades and since our son is in all the advanced/gifted classes other than his electives we think all is going to be GREAT! We haven't made a final decision but at least we feel better about our options.

Today, I had a clay class with Alice. We created the clay picture frame with sculpted leaves and I just love how easy and fun this project is. It was just Alice and I ~ so I stayed in my sweats and slippers and she came with no make up on - she didn't want me to take her picture but she's lovely with makeup or without!



























Alice




















Hope you are having a great week so far. Mine has been busy and I'm working on stuff for the Battle of Byron this coming Saturday.
Blessings,
Sandy

Geraniums ~

We painted geraniums yesterday in paint class


































Jenny

















Roz






















Nicole

Nicole won the drawing and got to take home the project piece I painted in class.























Alice



Sherry

Barb
















Today was our last day for bowling league. I did better than I've done in weeks. I bowled a 214, 169, and 168 for a 551 series. I was so excited to finish the season with high series of a 579 and high game of 226! YIPPEE!!
However, our team finished last. That's the pitfall of having handicaps but that's okay! It was a fun bowling year and I'm looking forward to next year already.

We have open house tonight at the high school my oldest "might" be going to next year. OH MY! High School ALREADY??!! We've not heard the most positive things about it but we really want to check it out for ourselves and form our own opinions. He's already guaranteed spots in the advanced classes which will be awesome but like I said we'll just have to wait and see what's gonna happen.

Have a fabulous day.
Sandy

Clay day with Barb, more hydrangeas, more clay

and "Mom, I almost got shot in the eye! "

On Wednesday, I spent the day with Barb and we played with clay. She won a clay play day with me for taking 6 paint classes with me in March.

I knew the exact project that we'd create - a faux slate heart with hydranges made out of clay.
I had made one and gave it to Donna Dewberry when I went to HD certs. last month and Barb really LOVED it when I showed it to her - so knew that was what we'd create.
We had a fabulous lunch and lots of time to laugh and chat.

If you haven't tried this clay yet you can find it at AC Moore or JoAnn's craft stores or you can purchase it at http://www.onestroke.com/ ~ it's incredible! It's made my Sculpey and Donna Dewberry. The best thing about it is it holds it's shape when you sculpt it ~ so there is no putting aluminum foil underneath the raised areas to keep it lifted - when you bake it in the oven (30 minutes on 275 degrees) it stays in the position that you put it!

While she was busy creating the hydrangea petals (it was a bit tedious)

I created a hibiscus out of clay for her.

More baskets of hydrangeas

We painted the basket of hydrangea in paint class on Wednesday

Roz

Roz won the drawing and took this painting home that I painted with them in class.

Barb

Nicole ~I had a better picture of her acting up but didn't think she'd appreciate

the picture of her chest plastered on my blog - hehehe!

Jenny

Kim

Saturday Studio Clay class~

at my home. They haven't gotten the product yet at Hobby Lobby so I'm going to teach these classes at my home until they do! It's too much fun not to SHARE. We created frames with sculpted leaves and then we glued them to the frames and stained them! The ladies that came today LOVED the product, especially the tools and the final project!

Sherry

Sherry won the drawing and got to

take come the frame that I created

during class.






























Ellen's frame

Barb

If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen to my middle son Kendall. He got shot in the face with a bb gun by a friends 5 yr. old brother. Don't ask me why that 5 yr. old had a bb gun in his hand but it really freaked me out ~ thinking a bit to the left and it could have been his ear or a bit to the right and straight in his eye!!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'll be back on Tuesday to post my LAST day of bowling league scores and post pictures from both paint classes on Monday.
Have a great day.
Blessings,
Sandy

Paint classes this week & a THANK YOU!

We painted a basket of hydrangea this past Saturday in paint class. We're painting them again in paint class this Friday -so I'll post those pics after class.

Sue






















Josie (Sue's sweet mom)

Josie won the drawing and got to take home the project piece I painted in class (below). I painted it just a bit different so she would have two different paintings.







Sherry





















Then we painted the English Garden Landscape and Sue and Josie hung out with me for another class and Ellen joined us too.




Sue















Josie




Ellen's landscape











Monday we painted lilac



Sherry



















Barb


























Roz






















Nicole





















Sherry

Sherry won the drawing and got to take home the project piece I painted in class.

















THANK YOU ~ all that visit me and continue to come back even though I've been terrible at getting by to visit you! Since the holidays I've seemed unable to get my schedule back on track but I'm working on it daily! I've been tagged by Beaufort Belle and I haven't forgotten just gonna have to post it another day as I have to get ready for my Clay fun day with Barb today ~ she won a drawing a couple of months ago for taking 6 classes in a month and is coming over today to play with clay and have lunch with me. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Blessings,
Sandy

Congraulations ~
Mel's World

My good looking oldest son Austin drew your name out of all the comments left and as soon as you send me your address ~ the Hydrangea painting will be on it's way!

Have a fabulous day! I have lots to post but have to get ready for paint classes this week!

Painting classes and family fun ~



Roz and her painted cherry blossoms




















Dogwood class ~






Sherry








Nita





















Roz





















English garden landscape


Jeanne

This was Jeanne's first class and her name was drawn so she got to take home the project I painted in class.




















Wanda
This was also her first class





















Barb























Alice











Sherry





















Nicole ~
she had to go to the doctor so only got to paint for an hour
but I still made her let me take her picture.



















Wednesday my neice and nephew came over after school and we had so much fun. We played on the trampoline and I just had to break out the camera. Andrew's new word is "actually" it's too cute.

Hannah

This is my younger sister Debbie and she just got her hair cut so I made her let me take her picture - it's so pretty! She got a new boss and things seem to really be going so much better for her now with her job and STRESS level!

Don't forget that I will be drawing a name on Sunday - all comments left from my April 7th post til Sunday will go into the drawing. One of my sweet boys will draw a name out of the basket after church on Sunday so around 1p.m. eastern time.

Have a fabulous weekend!!

Sandy