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! :)
