Here's Laurie fingerpainting. At SCRAP, they had works of art already complete, and I figured, "Well, hey, if they threw them out, then we can just paint over them!" So, Laurie fingerpainted over someone's already existing art.
And Voila! A baby who is apparently in need of oxygen. (Because he's blue...)
Laurie shows off her reinterpretation of a classic.
I forget who made this. Maybe Nicole?
Elizabeth made this. It took several days to dry completely.
Here's Laurie posing with her flower. Burt was impressed and Laurie said, "You're surprised that I have talent?" I came in and saved him: "He's just impressed what you were able to make considering the limitations of the medium." (You owe me one.) ;)
Jan did the flowers, the sun, and the pot, I think. Joe did the small flat things.
Yep, Joe did these small flat things.
Hafidha made a sculpture of her husband Michael.
And Michael did all these. Notice the Mobius strip on the right.
Patricia shows off her creation.
Here's Michael sculpting his geometric creations.
Jan, hard at work.
Whoo. Burt and Laurie each have talent for sculpture. Burt actually put his initials on his piece on the left. Notice the petals on Laurie's.
Burt wears his sculpture as a badge.
Here's the watercolor table. 
Here's Ramon looking devious at the watercolor table.
I think this is Nicole's.
I think this is Ramon's.
I think this is Ramon's, too.
CJ looked to me like she was having trouble finding her muse, so I went in my room and got a present that my Secret Santa had given me. With a little cajoling, I got CJ to paint the truck before assembling it.
So here we are assembling it. CJ decided that using the directions would be too easy, so she wanted to assemble the truck using only the completed picture on the front. I said, "You can't put it together without the instructions." She said, "Don't tell me what I can't do!" loud enough for the whole room to hear it and respond, "Ooh..." Knowing I was beaten, I acquiesced.
Soon it became apparent to me that the pieces were flawed and that we would need to use the instructions. CJ said that then it wouldn't be a puzzle.
...and finished it. She even fit in the pieces that wouldn't fit. 
Looks nice, huh?
So the moral of the story is that CJ is smarter than I am.
Patricia made the popcorn with lots of butter.
Patricia picked the strawberries by hand and had a sore back to show for it. The cubes are Matt's specialty recipe. Spicy Honey Orange Tempeh with dipping sauce, originally from savingdinner.com.
Patricia made these, and the pita chip instructions can be found on this blog.
The black bean dip on the left is homemade
Clay-dough is not really food, unless one is really hungry, but Matt prepared it as if it were food. 
This is my cake, made by a woman who donated it to the church auction. There are edible pix of collage on the cake and the tassel is correctly hung to the left to symbolize one who has already achieved one's Bachelors. 
I'm off sugar, but I had a taste of the cake and I broke my new habit because it was so amazing. Raspberry praline chocolate. Mmmm.
So, here is the assemblage table, where people made collages. You can see the greeting cards, thin paper, metal tubes, cloth, and then we provided glue and scissors. 
Here is the fingerpaint table. Look very closely and you can see that there is some artwork that has already been completed. SCRAP provided art already done by other people more talented than me! See the soft landscape there in the blue frame? Remember it for later...
Then there was stuff from SCRAP that just looked funny. Like this.
And this...
And this...
I think Laurie colored this. She read that mentalists can taste and touch from far away. 
And then there was this. I have no idea what it is. It is not a pen. It's just a pointed piece of wood on the other end. Most everyone was disturbed by it, including the person who sold it to me. 
It said Thailand on it.
I decided right before the party that I wouldn't hog the cookie, so when Nicole came over, she got right down to it.
Nicole drew me as an embryo with glasses. Apparently, I was destined for poor eyesight. Then JoJo added an origami bird.
Then Nicole decided to eat what was left of the frosting.
That blue lid with the rock on it was covering the hole for the clothesline. I dug both holes one week, then came back the next week to finish the project. When I uncovered the hole to put the concrete in, there were slugs making their way around the edge of the hole! Ugh.
But after that setback, things have been going well. I especially like I can do three loads of laundry, put them all on the line and come back a few hours later to bring them in. No waiting for the dryer to be finished for me.
