One of Gabriel's New Hobbies

Gabriel made this wood burning for Grandma and Grandpa

 Johnson!!

This ornament Gabriel made for his Auntie Flo. He has A LOT of people he wants to make Christmas ornaments for. Some of them he may have to complete after Christmas. It takes quite awhile to complete them.

Gabriel has a couple of new hobbies lately. One, is stop motion animation with Legos. He LOVES doing this and his Grandma and Grandpa got him a table top camera tripod for this new hobby. He was quite happy. He loves coming up with story lines and then picture by picture by picture by picture having the Legos act out the story. He hasn't learned how to do sound yet so for now they are silent. Also, we just download the pictures on the computer and flip through them really fast and watch it come together. Hopefully, when Uncle B comes we can learn how to put them all together into a movie.

The other hobby Gabriel JUST started is wood burning and he does an AMAZING job! It is a long and tedious process and so far he has completed two pieces (above) and they are both beautiful! First, you find a picture you like then use graphite paper to copy it onto the wood then wood burn it into the wood then color it with colored pencils (if desired). I spray it with color fixative and then varnish it.

Both of these hobbies are great for winter time fun!