Da Vinci Mandala Project

For the last two weeks, I've been volunteering my time to help a class at da Vinci Arts Middle School make mandala records for their upcoming auction. 

I always kind of hoped they might want my help with something like this while my son was a student there - although that never happened, I was happy to be asked and I've really enjoyed working with the kids and seeing their beautiful mandala creations. 

Here are some photos of their works in progress.  Once they are complete, some of them may be made into clocks, and some of them may be framed in groups of four, and some of them might be made into a room divider like mine. 

Popsicle Clocks!

I got new clock parts and the hands look like Popsicle sticks! I love it.

The above funkalicious photos are the 6 clocks that I shipped out today with the rest of the order for BuyGreen.com. I really dig the chunky new hands. I think that they look better and it's also easier to tell the time from a distance. The thinner hands could kind of get lost in the design - not so with these thick babies!

The really cool thing is that having to buy new clock parts means I finally ran out of my initial batch of 100 clock mechanisms that I bought three years ago! So, I have made 100 clocks. Wow.