*Ding Ding* Round Three!

We had another tie, so...

1. I love to snow board.
2. I love high diving.
3. I love snorkeling.

One thing on the list I have never done. Which one is it?

A Tie!

Well! It seams that we have a tie on our hands! Aria B. guessed 6, and Jansen R. guessed 8. It was 7! Very close guys :D

I just played the game "Two truths and a lie" at a Christmas party a couple days ago, and it was pretty fun. It's where I make three statements, and you will have to find the false one. Aria might have a slight advantage here because she has known me all her life :) I will try and make it really hard.

1. I have been out of the country three times.
2. I have never fainted.
3. I learned how to use the computer when I was 14.

Which is the lie?

Thanksgiving Holiday!

I have to say a big "Thank You" to Jansen, who wanted me to blog about my Thanksgiving!

We had a great one! :) It was not the usual, traditional Thanksgiving though. What I mean by "the usual" is spending the day with our extended family members. We just had a nice lunch at home, with Mom, Dad, Tyler and Adam. Also Paul Grobey spent the day with us as well. He is one of the singles in our church that dad mentors.

After lunch, we went to the Chins house, they were having a bunch of international students over for Chinese food, and Dad gave a presentation on how our Thanksgiving Holiday got started.

As a family, we have been going through "Of Plymouth Plantation" By William Bradford. It is fantastic. A great historical account of peril, excitement, intrigue, disease, and courageous men and women striving to live out lives free to worship the Creator. We were planning on getting to the actual feasting part before the 24th, but it didn't work out. :) We are still reading, and enjoying every minute of it!
I would encourage everyone to make it a Thanksgiving tradition!

Hope everyone had a great Holiday!

In Him,
~Amy K

~Contest for the Sunflower Painting~

On December 1st I will declare the winner of the contest, so don't wait to take a guess! If people tie, I will have to think of another contest just between those people :)

Good luck!
~Amy K

Step right up! Win your prize here!

Whoever can guess closest to the answer to my question, I will send you the sunflower painting shown in the post below! Yay! It would make a great gift to remind someone of summer time. And if you want, I can frame it in the color of your choice!

Okay, here's the question:
How many oil paintings I have done in my life?



(hint, I've only been oil painting for a couple years, and I don't do them that often)

I will only count your first guess, so search my blog, and answer carefully. :)

Contest?

I have discovered that painting small takes a lot longer then painting big. One of the reasons for this being it's incredibly hard to find a brush small enough in my teacher's art studio :) Here are two paintings that I have done this past month.

 On several blogs I have seen people do giveaways and contests to make things more interesting for their readers. And since it is too hard to ship baked goods, I would like to give away the 5'' by 7" Sunflower as a prize to someone, but I can't think of a contest to do in order for one of my readers to win it. Maybe a riddle or a challenge of some sort.

Any ideas?

(I have already given away the iris painting)

Praise the Lord for Church family and repeat costomers

I made this for our church fall festival. It was the second time that I had used fondant on a cake. None of the stores around here had a pumpkin shaped pan, which is strange since it is harvest time. A bunt pan served the purpose well, after I cut out the small bumps out in between the larger ones.



This was such a cute idea, I just had to do it! These were the same people that I've made a cake for before, it was for their granddaughter Kennedy, she's turning 3 years old.  And the only reason that most of the purple circles are empty, is because I ran out of icing! :) The cake is completely covered in fondant, and the decorations are done in royal icing.