"Reflections" District Winner

Hi-everyone.

Every year our school system has a contest with such categories as Dance/music, 3-D/Visual arts, Photography, and literature called "The Reflections Progam." This year Rhiannon entered a 3-D Visual art project. She worked many days/afternoons under the guiadance of John's Mom (who does a lot of crafty things-anything from oil painting to stained glass to pottery among others). Here is a picture of her project. None of these pictures really shows the amount of effort that went into this project. Rhiannon used collage from magazines for the mountains. She used real sand to glue to the path. The grass was painted using watercolor and the "trash" on the ground is actual bits of paper and straws and things that she glued on. She even made the clothes for her "person" herself.

In November, she won an "award of excellence" (first place in her grade) for her school and the project went on to the district level. Last night, we went to the awards ceremony, where she got an "honorable mention." She was exicited to be chosen for this award.

She got a certificate, a $1 gold coin, and a choc/raspberry candybar called, "A one dollar bar." Afterwards, we went to Kirt's ( a local drive-in) for a tasty treate of ice cream. It was only about 20-degrees outside, but that is what the girls wanted.

Of course, Morgan couldn't resist getting into some of the pictures, too.

Our love to everyone.