Lots of hard work ´til christmas

This year, I decided not to buy any christmas gift, instead I´m gonna make a clay-figurin for every member of my family, wich means 7 different figures.

First, I had to decide what to make them. Some were easy, while other where realy hard to come up with something good to make.

But finaly I think I came up with pretty good ideas for al of them.

The thing is, it takes from 4 to 10 hours to make one figure, and I have to make 7

So thats a lot of hours of hard work.

It feels like I havent had time to do anything else for the last couple of days, and I still have two figures left to make... And then I have to paint all of them..............

It seemed like such a good idea at first, now I´m not so sure

The most annoying thing about doing these figures, is that I spend hours and hours of sculpting, and when it´s finaly finished, I find lots of things on it that I dont like. I´m not extremly happy with any of the figurines I made so far, but I´m krossing my fingers that they will look better when they are painted.

I will try to have them all finished by sunday evening, and then I will show you some pics of them (if I can borrow the camera from my dad)

Ohhh, you can`t do this, - I am dying to see them

Pleeease, can`t we get just a little, tiny look at what you have done so far ? Please?

I can´t wait to see them!!!

Ok, so it´s sunday evening (well accually it´s the middle of the night) and....

I´m not finished

I didnt realise it would take about 4-6 hours to paint each figure, so I´m only done with two of them.

Wich means I will have less than 4 days to paint the other 4 (the last one I have to wait with, otherwise I´m never gonna be finished) and I also have my regular jobb al week

I´m never gonna make it

The only good thing is that I´m pretty happy with the two I have already finished...

Kross your fingers that I will make it in time for christmas

And I promise you, I will show you pics of them as soon as all are done :)

Oh, I'm so looking forward to seeing them Anna!

Ohh, dear !
Run out and buy them something, - then you won`t have to give them away

But, Anna - please do send pictures

Hey, now I know how to make you send pictures, - don`t tell Anna


Anna, I think you didn`t make them at all

SUSANNE wrote:

Hey, now I know how to make you send pictures, - don`t tell Anna


Anna, I think you didn`t make them at all

Well, it´s wednesday evening, two days ´till christmas, and....................





I´m finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yey Yahooo Tjohooo Jippyjay!!!!!!

I cant believe it, I accually made it! I´m soo happy, and so relieved!! No more preasure

Hmm, well, I do have to clean the whole appartment, do the dishes and the rest of the stuff thats just been sitting around while working on the figurines for a week.

But I dont care


I´mmmmm FINISHED!!!!!!

I don't know about the others but how about some photos? I would love to see some pictures of your figures, especially now that they are painted and finished.

And here they are, enjoy

For my big brother Mikael, the car-mecanic, A snake that swallowed a car
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For my yongest brother Rasmus, who loves World of Warcraft, the druid cat form
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For my father, who loves wolves
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For my brother Daniel, his dog Zahara
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My last brother, Henrik, I didn´t realy know what to make. But finaly I decided to make him a shark, shasing a seal
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And for my mother, a little haflinger mare
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Here´s a pic of al of them
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It was a lot of hard work, each figure took more than ten hours to make. But it was worth it, I´m accually pretty happy with al of them

But next year, I think I will go back to getting them ordinary gifts. If I have to do this again, I will probably go nuts

And if any of them dares to complain...

They are wonderful

You should be very proud of your work. Be sure and sign them and date them!

I believe each of your family will be filled with joy at receiving these very special presents too.


Congratulations.

and Merry Christmas too~ one of the many Sues

Beautiful creatures, real piece of art, congratulations

Oh, you forget to make a gift for your uncle!!! Which uncle??? Uncle Roger… has you already forgot him???

Congratulations, I love your work and mainly the taste of your parents! Other figures are very imaginative too! Tell Mikael that I agree, Nature will win!!! …and Henrik, if you don’t let the shark catch the seal you will preserve two figures, smart boy! I’m with you! …and Daniel, don’t let Zahara eat the maple, please!

Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!
I adore Zahara and the mare!

Really, really nice, you did a great job on them and your family will be proud to recieve them. Thanks for the photos.

Anna they are all stunning! I love them all!! Your family members are really really lucky - I wish I was one of them

You´re very talented, I´m sure your family will like the presents a lot!

Thanx guys

I accually think all of them like their gifts

Even thou my dad had to comment on some small mistakes I made on his wolf

The funny thing is, when I made the figures, the horse was the one I was the least happy with, I didnt like it at all. But when I had painted al of them, the horse was the one I was the most happy with. What a little paint can do

Well now I´m not going to do any new figures for a while, need to rest


Merry christmas

Arrakai wrote:

Thanx guys

I accually think all of them like their gifts

Even thou my dad had to comment on some small mistakes I made on his wolf

The funny thing is, when I made the figures, the horse was the one I was the least happy with, I didnt like it at all. But when I had painted al of them, the horse was the one I was the most happy with. What a little paint can do

Well now I´m not going to do any new figures for a while, need to rest


Merry christmas

Is this appreciative comments of a father or people that we love, that make us grow and be even and even better, perhaps your talent is due of it too!


Merry Christmas to you and your family too!

Anna,I have no words to describe your wonderful figurines!They are all stunning and very detailed!I mostly like the druid cat form,I am also a BIG WOW fan,I have a lv 85 Troll priest and some other characters!!!

Roger wrote:

Is this appreciative comments of a father or people that we love, that make us grow and be even and even better, perhaps your talent is due of it too!


Merry Christmas to you and your family too!

Ye, your right and I do like a little constructive criticism, but after working an entire week on the figurines (and I mean an entire week, didnt have time to do anything else at all) I didnt want to hear any criticism

But now, after a few days, I can appreciate it

Wildheart wrote:

Anna,I have no words to describe your wonderful figurines!They are all stunning and very detailed!I mostly like the druid cat form,I am also a BIG WOW fan,I have a lv 85 Troll priest and some other characters!!!

Glad you liked it

I also have a lvl 85, a feral druid. Thats the main reason I did a cat form, realy like the char. My brother is mostly in monkin form, but I think they look a little funny

WONDERFUL GIFTS!!

remowshake wrote:

WONDERFUL GIFTS!!

Thanx Philip

Anna you did a great job on these gifts!
How much more personal can a gift be?
Such nice little diorama's too! Amazing girl!