LEAVES EVERYWHERE!!

OH My God!! Ther was green leaves EVERYWHERE!!

It took at least 3 to 4 coats of paint for it to look right.

This angle is from looking out my bedroom door

Ahhh the next color waiting patiently in line... Yellow

I ended up clothing lining them so I could paint the edges

My current studio

The yellow paint attacked my leg, thank god no skin was colored in the making

the current color being worked on... orange is up nexted

I can't say that I hate leaves no cuz well I don't.  My dad is though. They were spread throughout the house though.  But I've pretty much stuck to one room of the house at least.  Hopefully this upcoming Wednesday or Thursday I'm going to find the branches for this project.  I've already found where I'll be staying for the week of the insulation and showing of all of this!!  I'm soo excited!!

The Week Off Project

So my boss was ever so nice and gave me the week off!! I was soo excited for it too I couldn't hard sleep on sunday.  So this is what's been happening day by day:

Monday:  I started cutting out my leaves in the morning and then realized had stuff to do for work.  So I cut out at least 10 to 15 different leaves.  Mind you that I had 4 pieces of plywood clamped together and was cutting them off the one I had traced patterns on to in December so you have to multiply those numbers by like 4, so about 40 to 60 leaves cut.

where it all started

the beginning of me cutting

Tuesday:  I finished cutting the leaves and instead of 200 like I thought I was gonna get I ended up cutting the bigger ones out than the smaller ones so it's not exactly 200 leaves which by the looks maybe ok.  Although, by the looks of my big leaves I still might have to buy another 2 to 3 sheets of plywood and make bigger leaves than I already had.

Done cutting half the plywood

Wednesday:  I was soo busy yesterday that I ended up not working on them til about 1pm which was a bad idea cuz I stopped sanding after about 3 realizing that at the rate I was going it would've taken forever to stand them all, so I called dad and he brought another kind of sander for me and instead of working in the garage like I have been I moved some leaves inside cuz it's TOO DAMN COLD OUT to work out there. Plus the garage is always 10 to 15 degrees colder than the actual outside anyways.  Dad didn't seem to mind because there isn't alot of saw dust.... yet.

I didn't have any safety glasses so dad was like use your sunglasses... and so I did and they worked

My color piles. 6 colors, 6 piles

my little work station in the house

Thursday:  Well I plan on getting the new sander out and busting the leaves out.  But I figured that I should update my blog before I forget to do it.  I still have pictures that I have to get up too.  But hopefully between today and the end of tomorrow I'll have them all sanded so I can paint them between now and the week of the opening.

Disappearing Paychecks

So my hard earned paycheck has disappeared this time.  All for the love of my senior art project too!.  Remember that award money I got? Well considering I'm not at school to get it I'm getting reimbursed for it and with the tax exempt forms my school gave me for 2 stores where I'll b buying most of my stuff, it's really helped.  I've spent about about $200 of it so far.  I got wood which somehow was cheaper here than I thought and originally estimated for and I got 6 things of paint!! 6!! But it was well worth it because in the end the left over stuff can go for other projects in the future.  And all Lorax colors too!!

In Febuary I ordered 2 sets of white christmas tree lights and got them.  They're 9 feet long so 2 time 9 = 18!! So I'm hoping 18 feet is enough for what I have in mind.  I looked at cloth today too and well I don't know if I'm gonna need it with all the stuff I'm putting in my tree.  I think I have Lace curtains kicking around somewhere that I might use if not I ended up getting the chiffon that I looked at today.  It's really nice and might work for the feel I'm going for. As for the balloons with glow sticks and knee high stockings?? I'm on the fence with that one too. I just dont want a lot to hang and make it look too busy ya know?

PS: PICTURES COMING NEXT WEEK WHEN I START CUTTING AND PAINTING!!