Craftyminx: July 2006

arctic edge and crafty fun... (pic heavy)

Its been awhile, but I have pics so you all should be happy... So the past week I have been teaching VBS at my old church. It has been the most tiresome week of the past year, but it has been fun. The theme was Arctic Edge and I am really proud of my room. Our decorations are always the best. They have to be because we teach 5th and 6th graders. These are pics of our entry way. We have a huge space to work with (unfinished balcony turned youth area). So we put up the tarp to make the wall of our "lodge". Please excuse the cheesy elementary poster cutouts. One of the parents bought them for us so we felt that we should put them up. I did like the puffins though. Also its a little messy because I took pics at the end of the second day. The kids had already kind of ransacked the place.

We used the existing sound booth to create the front porch which has a painted scene in front of it.

And here are the pics of the "inside"

I'm really proud of how real the fire looks from the pictures...

After the crazy week, I have pretty much just been lying about doing crafty things.
I finished one arm warmer (which I am in the process of redoing because I am uber picky) I have been working on this pattern for about what 3 weeks now? I think I'm finally understanding how to change the pattern I have into what I actually want. haha. I'm glad someone already had a pattern written out. It has helped a lot.

And today I made this ....

its the roy lichtenstein painting "girl with hair ribbon" I put it through photoshop, made a stencil and bleached it onto a shirt. It turned out really well for a first try at such things. I'm currently working on some other projects with his paintings. I love the romance comics of his. The faces are so vivid and wonderful.