I had been in a painting slump for a while.  I suddenly felt like getting some of my half finished projects done.  One of those is this Bat Wing Mantel Clock.  I had it almost finished for a while and it was just sitting so it seemed like the best thing to complete first.  I really love this clock design and when you see it in person it is a pretty impressive design.  It has a wingspan of 20 ½ inches and is 7 ½ inches tall....

Friday night we attended the The Mythic Creatures:  Dragons, Unicorns & Mythic Creatures Exhibit at the Cleveland Natural History Museum.  This is a traveling exhibit and it has been at museums from New York, Atlanta to Sydney, Australia.  We have been waiting for the exhibit to come to Cleveland and it is now here until July. Joe Leonard has a few pieces in the exhibit.   Joe Leonard is a good friend and is an extraordinary wood...

If you missed my last post, this year I decided that our gingerbread house would be modeled after the Disneyland 2011 Haunted Mansion Gingerbread House.  You can check it out at the Disney Parks Blog. After a lot of hard work and finagling our gingerbread house is completed!  It was a bit nerve wracking after completing the house to see if the electronics and animatronics were going to work with the weight of the gingerbread, icing and...

This year’s gingerbread house design was a no brainer for me.  I fell in love when I saw the Disneyland Haunted Mansion gingerbread house for this year as soon as I saw it on the Disney Parks Blog.  I thought it was awesome and this was what I wanted to build this year! I was so excited when I saw it that I asked Brandon to watch the video to see if he could help me make mine open and close like theirs and he said he could. The...

Brandon’s work Holiday party was held Saturday at Cleveland Browns Stadium.           Each year the holiday party is held at a different interesting venue.  When we arrived we had valet parking which was great considering I have never been to the stadium and had no idea where we were going!  I underestimated the amount of time it would take to get downtown so we were early and waited outside at the gate. ...

Each Thanksgiving we seem to be surrounded by a theme.  This year’s theme turned out to be “The Search for Brandon’s Grandma’s “Puffball” Recipe”.  It was prompted by Brandon’s cousin posting on her Facebook page that she was looking for the recipe to surprise her dad.  Brandon replied I had a similar recipe and I would send it along to her. Grandma’s recipe has been elusive.  Brandon...