Monday, August 27, 2012

South Africa 2004


Arabic dress up party: Mari and me

Learning to create with food...

Homemade beauty parlor. Guess who?

The day my mom sacrificed her long hair so I could practice hair-cutting...

Hippy dress up party

Roller blading


Teaching art to the boys
Pipe cleaner figures I made for Andy and Amber's wedding cake
Amber cutting her wedding cake
My little pipe cleaner wedding figures

Amber and Andy's wedding



Visits to orphanage in Durban:
Cuddle show at orphanage

Flannelgraph for orphaned kids

Reading story for flannelgraph at orphanage
Excursions in Kwazulu Natal: 
Safari


Zebras

Crocodile park


Yep, it's real snow, in the Drakensburg

Caz and I in the Japanese Gardens

Drakensburg

Brushing horse's tail




Horse riding excursion

Sketching at the Japanese Gardens

Virginia Air Show with Lilu

Bird Park Art

Playing mini golf

Water World

That's me coming down the water slide on the right



Knitting and Needle work--my new passion: I found a new way to create gifts and presents for those I love. 


Baby Aiden wearing the little yellow sweater I knitted for him


Aiden's sweater--almost finished. Boy, that was a lot of work! Following the pattern instructions was a bit tedious, but it paid off in the end. That was my first big knitting project.

Finished product

Knitted dolls

Sewing hair on the doll


And here's the cute knitted dolly I made for my friend

That's the rag doll I made for my niece Petra. Mom and I worked on it together.

Dolly's undergarments which we also made. Mom and I had found a book at the library that told us how to make it, so we went and bought all the needed materials and worked on it in our spare time. It was loads of fun!

More knitted creations for my friends

I made that little knitting kit for my friend Julie...

...with all the needed accessories inside.

That's Petra with the doll we made.


Dress for Petra's doll

Following pattern's knitting instructions

Don't you just love her face?

Here I'm embroidering a pillow I made for my sister

My 13th birthday:
Black Forest cake made by Mom

Lilu and me

Caz, Lilu, Terri, Julie and me
Ricky and me

Caz and me

Christmas and New Year:
Performing for Christmas
New Year's Eve
Performing for Christmas--I'm the one playing keyboard...Terry's the star.
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