Post #316198 by Zaya on Mon, Jul 2, 2007 12:09 AM

Well I finally dusted off my wood burner, and got to work on a little something this weekend! I know, I know, It's About Time!! I had a great day at the latest San Diego Chop Chop, and spent the afternoon burning a design into this piece of wood that Meiko gave me a while back. I didn't have my camera with me to take progress pictures, but here are a few shots of the final piece.

I also was able to work with some stone for the first time at the chop chop too! Thanks to PDrake for sharing his great set up. He had a big piece of Jade that he cut into smaller pieces so we could try it out. All I really did was smooth out the edges, shape it up, and buff it out a little. It was really fun!

Right now it reminds me of one of those "Worry Stones", all nice and smoooooooooth. I can see how you can easily get hooked on this. Thanks again Perry! It was great to have a relaxing time spending the day with good friends, and making some new ones too!!

Well I haven't been posting much since I haven't been doing much woodburning lately. I check in on TC daily to keep up with everything that's going on though. It seems like I've had so many other projects, and you know, just life.

One of my projects was painting my son's room. He picked out beach/ocean/shark theme. The painting is all finished, and his favorite part is the 7ft by 6ft great white shark wall mural!

Before...

After...

Slowly but surely we're gathering other cool decorations, and I'll post more pictures as it's completed.

We also had a fun adventure in early June for my son's 8th birthday. I surprised him with a cool treasure hunt, and when we got to the X marks the spot the treasure was a helicopter ride all over San Diego! Here are some of the highlights of the trip..

Treasure Map (I secretly tried to make the X look like helicopter blades.)

Hey, look who gets shotgun!

Forget shotgun, I think it's copilot!

This shot was taken going straight down over the cliffs at Torrey Pines in La Jolla

La Jolla Shores

Sea World (Look, you can even see the whales in the big pools!)

Downtown San Diego

Petco Park (Home of the Padres!)

We even got to fly over Buzzy's house! It's the one with the tikis in the back yard! :) Actually, it's the one a little to the bottom left of center with the blue shade tarp in the back. Buzzy was even standing in the back yard taking a picture of us from the ground.

Finally, us after our great adventure.

So right now we're counting down the days to this Saturday when we leave for Hawaii for a week! We're really looking forward to it. I'm sure I'll have some good adventure pictures from our trip to share.

I'll see you soon!

Zaya