Christmas in JUNE????

Yes, I have already started....... It seems every year I run out of time so I have decided to start while I have time :) I remember my mom taking us to the pool and taking her Christmas ornament stuff with her! These ornaments are balls that have torn pieces of my painted papers, Japanese Washi paper or both combined. The white ball is covered with cool paper I found in KamaKura over the weekend.

Paper Mache Bowls, Letter and American Flags

Projects my art class is working on. They asked for paper mache so we started with the basic bowl, I am hoping they will finish up the last coats of paper mache in the next class, then we can move onto painting. The bowl in the picture is finished- I think it turned out really good. We worked on tearing small pieces of paper (kids want to use HUGE pieces) and not soaking the pieces, the result is almost no bumps, very smooth looking. We are also working on American Flags for the 4th of July. All of the flags should be ready to go home by the end of the month. The letter is something I am working on- the only problem was I did not measure correctly so I have a little bit of a lopsided L, but I have never measured correctly so oh well........

Glad to see

I made some people hungry with my soup :) finally my turn!!!!!!

Pampering Beki

Check out her website! She is doing her 1000th Blog entry giveaway. It's an interesting blog with a little bit of everything- kids, bad babies, cute little babies, food, jewelery, ideas for your home, crafty things, just a mix of about everything. So go visit Pampering Beki. and enjoy! Oh and she has some cool music playing in the background and since we don't get good radio here in Japan I hook it up to the stereo and that's what we listen to :)

Chicken Taco Soup

with cornbread, this was the first time I served it with avacados. It was sooooooo good :) I think it is my favorite. Great soup, cornbread, nice dessert- served in a fancy bowl with cheap paper plates....... and IKEA spoons for half of us since I ran out of spoons.........

Little Student

She is so cute! She is 5 years old, this is her first project. She was so excited when she came on Sunday and saw that it had dried all sparkly! I don't think she could really focus on anything she just kept picking up her picture. She also made a bag to carry home her art projects. This class is very enjoyable! Oh and she speaks enough English to hold a little conversation :) Too cute!

FingerPrint Friday

Look what's in our yard....... I think it lives in the little jungle area in the back, I think it is looking for food, it think it has chased our little bird friends away. It is cute but I am staying away from it. I hope it doesn't try to get into the house for food :)I really hope :)I think it likes the tree with fruit in the yard- no clue yet what it is but the housing office is supposed to find out for us. Enjoy- take a look at more FingerPrint Friday's over at www.pamperingbeki.blogspot.com