The Horde Hanger

My girlfriend and her fiance are really into World of Warcraft, as I used to once be. So I figured for her birthday I would create a Horde flag that she could put up on her wall and hang her keys or jewelry from.
This was made from porcelain clay.

The Ugly Dresser

Found it at a department store on clearance from $180.00 down to $20.00. This sucker was horrible looking. Like a giant watermelon!

I had an idea and went with it. Till this day it still stands incomplete. I have painted a base paint of white on the drawers but I am wanting to finish them off with a soft light brown.

Final Fantasy XI Wedding Cake Topper

Yup you heard right.. the FFXI wedding cake topper! I used porcelain clay to fashion all these doo-dads.
The moogle (the creature with wings, and satchel) was a blast to make!
The blue teleport crystal was hard to make. I had to stabilize it with a metal frame on the inside of it.
The worm to the right was hard to make. His tentacles kept wanting to fall off! If you look down the top of him he actually has a mouth on the inside.
The O-hat is one of those items in the game that every character had to have at 'end-level'. This item became epic as it took several other players and loads of time to gather all the ingredients to make the item that 'popped' the notorious monster that would 'maybe' drop the item!
In the middle I made the staves that Neal and I used in the game. I chose this over the traditional man and woman figures.

Nurse Kim

This was made for a fellow nurse that I worked with. Needless to say that I still have not finished it as I cannot put my finger on what else I need to do with it. It just does not sit well with me.
I used my typical relief carving and drafted my own design for this.

Its fishing time!

Its 3 down and 1 more to go.

Cornhole!

The ever popular "Cornhole".

My Dad came up to me and asked me to come up with some designs and paint them on the cornhole boards. The kids really enjoy going over to the lake house and playing this great, simply game. My nephews also enjoy the game as well. So, the idea was to come up with 4 designs.. one for each of the grandkids. Two days later I had a sketch. A week later Dad had gone to the lumber mill and bought the wood. He cut it out, put a hole in the top, and sanded down the face. This is what I came up with for each grandkid.

1. Zoe: Michael Jackson and sheet music with a flashy star background.
2. Ethan: Big ass bass fish flipping up in the air with some fishing lures,
bobbers, and a blue camo theme water background.
3. Abigale: A horse with flower border and sky like background.
4. Eli: Monster truck with flag border.

So far I have completed Eli's board. Right now I am working on Abigales board. I think this Christmas is going to be special. Handmade gifts that are unique always come from the heart.

If you have an idea and want me to help you out for that special gift, email me :D Breekemp1@gmail.com

A Family Frame

I received a photo from my stepmom, Candy, a few weeks back. It was such a nice picture that I just had to make a frame myself for it instead of going out and buying one.

I used some of the bulk wood my Dad cut for me and used a pecan stain with some black paint for the border.

This is was pretty easy idea but the process made me go crazy. I wasnt sure exactly how to put the picture in the frame. Originally I was going to cut the middle out but after carving most of the middle out, it just looked to nice to scrap all together. So then I decided to try to carve an inside edge for the photo to slip into with my Dremel. That worked partially but I was having problems with the edges so I just went ahead and cut the middle out. I kept it, however, and used it to keep my photo in place.

I mounted it up on the wall next to what I call my "Ade Place".