This past weekend Becca, Sam and I went to back to Oak Openings to take some pictures of the Evergreen Trail. I have to say that this trail contains one of my new favorite places in Ohio by far. The place I am referring to is a small area of the trail that contains some stripped evergreen trees, which we now dub the “magical forest.” Anywho, I thought I would share some of the photos I took along the trail. I hope when Didier and Rachel come home for Christmas that we can all make another trip there with snow on the ground.

Tonight was Marilla’s first Halloween on the mean streets of Perrysburg. Jessie made her costume last night and I have to say it looked amazing. The entire night I could not stop myself from laughing at how funny Marilla looked waddling up to the houses and saying “Trick or Treat” and “Happy Halloween.” She was very good with her “Thank You” as well. Here are some pictures from the evening’s festivities.

This past weekend was a time of creativity and discovery. Finding that I am not too horrible at sewing, thanks to the ever so wonderful Becca, we decided to make some fun stuffed animals. I wanted to make my upcoming nephew Harry something to greet him into the world. We then found some fun ideas on the Shawnimals website for our initial designs and got sewing! Below are the results of our efforts. The first pic is the pair we made for the little Geib kids. The left one was made by me, thanks to Becca’s help, and belongs to Harry. The one on the right was made by Becca and belongs to Marilla, who lovingly named it Afghan Puck. The second picture shows a kidney bean shaped one I made (we call him Bean), Becca’s little four-eyed ghosty, and her owls she made previously. We can’t wait to make more!

My brother and his wife have recently started up their own pottery company and seem to be having a blast. I thought I would share with you one of the mugs that they made. I am now using this mug to drink everything from. Marilla was also excited to see the unofficial release of their first batch of mugs.

Working on a few new characters at the moment. I will post more pics of new characters as the other models come along. Any crit and comments are more than welcome.

Congrats to Rachel and Didier on their marriage and I wish you both the best.  I spent a good 5 days hanging out with Didier’s and Rach’s family for the wedding and had an absolute blast.  It was good to meet Didier’s brother Philippe finally, and it was really good to see Cameron again. (good luck in Africa!)  Much drinking, eating, and dancing was done.  All in all a quality weekend and a great way to recover from surgery .  Also Tyson and Jessie’s wedding will be coming up in two weeks which should be quite the event.  Hope to see many of you there!  As far as work goes, I finally have ZBrush3 pretty much nailed down, so some new work should be coming very soon.  Also been busy building websites and starting back up some photography, so I might have some of that up soon as well.  Take care! 

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