LeVar Burton

I have freelance work with Reading Rainbow Kidz making interactive children's books and have met LeVar Burton. He is a very friendly and energetic person. He read a cute book to the team and was kind enough to give me signed photos of his Star Trek character. This is certainly one of the coolest jobs I've had.

Halloween 2012

Halloween props from last year, built from paper mache. The bat has a motor for opening the mouth and lights. Turns out paper mache doesn't hold up well when you make large creatures without reinforcement, I ended up leaving the stuffing in the spiders to help maintain the shape. Next time I'll try using chicken wire as an understructure.

Decorations going up, spiders were the theme.

Large spider and pumpkins.

Medium spider.

Bat over door.

Bat blinking lights.

Frog candy dispenser.

Kids seemed to like reaching in for candy.

Christmas penguins holding a gift.

Sculpey

Sculpey is a great alternative to kiln fired clay, I have been using it for the past couple of years to make gifts for the holidays. It's fun to make various canes. These pieces are small (maybe 2").

quail

goldfish with marble bubble

seaturtles

bunnies

frogs with flies

sweater bunnies

seahorses

owls

birds

Scroll Saw

The first thing I made with the scroll saw were jigsaw puzzles - spent most of the time sanding the pieces, but they're interesting to reassemble. Now I use the scroll saw to recycle old pieces of wood into ornaments. I didn't take as many photos as I should, these are the puzzles prior to painting.

butterfly and fish, approx. 7" wide

snail (and some clay bugs)

recycled wood into planter ornaments