Getting Caught Up! More Handwork photos!

I tell you, it is a lot of work to back track and organize your pictures after you've neglected them for months on end! Tommy and I both have a camera, both are not the greatest, and with 2 cameras clicking, having different download days, well...it was IS confusing :)

Reeve made this lego ship simply ages ago...before he started school!

Sad thing is that he hasn't had time to play with his legos since starting school.

Some friends of ours gave us a Ukranian Egg Coloring kit. It's called Pysanka, and it is really fun!

You use a tool called a kistka that you put a dab of beeswax into, then you heat the kistka over a candle flame and the wax is runny. You use the kistka and the hot wax to "draw" on your egg. The first layer will be the color of the egg.

We pencil drew on the egg first. After you've applied the first layer of wax you die the egg yellow. Now you apply your second layer of wax everywhere you want to be yellow.

You keep adding wax and die (progressively getting darker...yellow, orange, green (applied with a q-tip to certain areas), finishing with blue or red. Once all the wax and colors have been applied you heat the egg over the candle flame and wipe off the wax. A brilliantly colored egg appears, and you can apply a thin layer of shelac to it. Sadly I do not have finished picutres! It was a several day undertaking for us, and I'd love to do it again when we are settled somewhere!

These are the before pictures of Kyle making the doll from my previous post.