Saturday, July 26, 2008

Bella turns purple!

Last Wednesday Bella was promoted from green belt to purple belt!



She has worked very hard over the past few years to get where she is!



All of the sensei's made sure she got the test she deserved.



By time the night was over she was sweating!





GOOD JOB BELLA! It wont be long before you're a brown belt!

Sam and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary on July 18th! I am not sure if it seems like we have been together forever or if it seems like only yesterday that we were married...somehow I doubt that will ever change. We have had some adventures over the past 10 years and we both look forward to what the coming years hold for us!


Laura had the girls over for a visit while Sam, Otto, Ken and I took a trip to the Owl's Head transportation museum on the 19th. We have all kinds of pictures of old cars, trains & planes we will need to print up for my scrapbook but I am just going to put a few of Otto on here...

Otto's VW...


This is Otto with the "Otto gas engine"...






While we were there we also checked out the Owl's Head lighthouse.







On our way home we stopped at Red Robin in Augusta for supper!



RED ROBIN! YUM!





Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Carving Update

I made my first sale two days ago!! I made a sign out of maple for Ken's cousin John. He wanted to make a sign to give the people that he is going to visit in Wisconsin.

Currently I am making some Maine themed signs and other projects. When we went to Acadia last Friday I came up with an idea to make replica signs of the various signs in Acadia. When I was looking around in the gift shop at the top of Cadillac Mountain I saw a carved replica trail marker selling for $50 and some random small signs selling for quite a bit as well. I made one sign for Thunderhole and another random sign from the park loop road. They are all carved and look really good, but I need to go get some brown paint. The other project I am working on is a carved checkerboard with the outline of Maine in the background. I have carved half of it so far, but it needs some minor tweaking to get it just right. Once I get enough samples finished I plan to go back to Bar Harbor and talk to some shop owners about selling my works.

I went to Lowe's yesterday to get some paint and some more wood, but I forgot to bring a sample of the color brown that I need. I did, however, find some gallon cans of stain for only $1!! They had five and I bought all of them... I'm sure I'll find use for that much stain.

Hopefully I will make it out to get some paint some time this week.

I'll post some pictures once the checkerboard is stained and the signs are painted.