Living in Edgewise

Friday, March 23, 2012

Ruby's Birthday Gift

Totoro and Ponyo figurines set --

Fujimoto

Baby Ponyo

Totoro

Ponyo's Mermaid mom.

For those of you that have no idea what a Totoro or a Ponyo is -- they are films by Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki.

Ponyo is a little fish girl. Her mom is a mermaid.

image source: -- http://www.zerochan.net/584348

Totoro is a...hmmm...I really don't know what a Totoro actually is...

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What's most amazing to me is that she made these figurines from memory. She hasn't seen either of these films for several months. It's also secondly amazing to me that she somehow can keep all the sculpty pieces separate long enough and put them all together quick enough that they don't all clump together in swirly mess like my sculpty sculptures seem to do.

Pancake Breakfast @ Arnot Forest

They let you eat the pancakes with the syrup they have just made. The place smells like maple sugar.

Someone has sticky syrup fingers.

Taughannock Park Walk

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Kat helped stain today.

To stain (the interior) or not to stain, that is the question.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Just Playing

More Treehouse Interior

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Final Year for the Writer's Contest

Emy has been working for months now on a story for the PBS Kids Go Writer's Contest. It's only for K-3rd graders, so this will be the last year she can enter. She won 3rd place last year, and 3rd place the year before that, so we're hoping she at least wins third place again this year. (Of course, I am secretly hoping that she wins 1st place and that her story goes on to win nationwide and that she wins a laptop computer. Sue me.) In any case, I really cannot wait until I get to show people what she has made. I think it's awesome. I guess I would think that.