Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Time Flies When You're Having Fun

So… an awful lot has happened in the last few months, and it’s about time that I got caught up. First off, I did finish the gingerbread house for my Phantom of the Opera project. I had planned it out perfectly… except it ended up being too big, whether because the cookies expanded in the oven or whatnot, I don’t know. So I had to improvise, and I made it roughly half the size it was originally meant to be…

And the people didn’t end up working either, so I got frustrated and just turned it into the scene where the chandelier has fallen. Only I pretended everyone else had run out as well… You can’t see it in the picture, but behind the box seats, there’s a platform and stairs leading down, and it looks kind of cool. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize I had forgotten to take a picture of it until after the project was all eaten. I’m thinking I might try to make a cardboard model at some point, to see how the full thing would have worked.

Also, I had lots of gingerbread left over, so I made a little baby gingerbread house with some of the extra.

Then, after school ended, I was hurrying to finish up all of the requirements I had left for the CILT (Camper in Leadership Training) program at Camp Cherith that I was doing, which involved a lot of crafts as well. Of course, I forgot to take pictures of a lot of them… but some of the things I made were a knit baby seal,

a little carved dragon,

a dragon banner,

and a woodburned Horde coaster.

I made a bunch of other crafts, too, including three little plushies- a Mew, a bat, and a narwhal, but I ended up giving them away before I remembered to take pictures of them… Oh well.
Then, while I was at camp, I woodburned this pair of Celtic dragons:

I also made this murre, also known as a guillemot, because that’s what I had decided on for my bird name, since at Camp Cherith all of the staff use bird names instead of their real names.

My CILT buddy, Twila made one too. Her bird name is Stella, after the stellar sea eagle.


Anyways, it was lots of fun! And even though it was a bit stressful up until the very end, Twila and I both finished CILT! :)




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