Enjoying my camera...too much?

Yeah, more pictures. It snowed yesterday so I was taking some pictures of the snowy State College sites. The first is a red berry bush near my office. The next are just some shots from my parking garage of the surrounding snow covered town.

More pics

Ok, so I really like the camera. It fits in my pocket well, and can take really great pictures without the flash. The following I took at the Dr's office while I was waiting for my allergy shot. The paintings were really interesting, so I figured, hey, I'll see how my camera works in this instance. So I didn't paint the pictures, a Penn State student did.

New camera fun

Ok, so I got a new camera, smaller, more compact, better night picture capability, stability stuff, nice, I think. I just took a few shots of stuff around my apartment playing with settings.

Artistic? Or just crazy...eh, whichever

So I was playing with clay, and wanted to put different pieces together, colors that is, and make a tie-died/striped duck...well, I did, but not a huge fan of it, but the left over pieces that were stuck together I started playing with and made a rose...and then added petals...and then took a picture on one of my stainless steel charger plates and I thought it looked cool with the reflection. Anyways, here 'tis.

Quackers

I have a friend who has a propensity for collecting rubber ducks...so I was bored one night and thought...hey, I can make a rubber duck out of clay...and then I thought...I can even make it into a magnet...so that's what I did. Aluminum foil as a base, then made him out of polymer clay. The magnet was glued on after it was baked with E6000. Good stuff.

The quotes are loosely from a great movie, "Peaceful Warrior."

More leather, another pouch

Went back and got another scrap pack of leather, but was disappointed to see no larger pieces. I wanted to work on another pouch, to work on the construction factor -- what order to do things in. I used the same idea, but pieced parts together. As the pictures show, each side panel has two parts. I also got a tool to punch holes in the leather...very cool, and much easier than using a needle/awl combo. Doesn't have a lining yet, but I'm calling them Herald pouches thanks to Bambs observation that they look like a Coat of Arms/Heraldry shield.

A fish...yes, a fish...

So my artist friend challenged me to make a fish out of leather. People shouldn't challenge me, cause I'll find a way to do it. Here's a leather fish. Pieced together and sewn. He needs a bit of stuffing or something inside to make him stand up, unless he gets hung. I think he's kinda funny. Anyways, that's that...a leather fish.