Kaitlyn+S

The reason I chose to focus on the subject of the end of war is because that's a big piece of what I think of peace is. It's also a subject that I support strongly. There are many quotes all over the pinwheel, with peace signs on some of the 'wings'.

I faced so many challenges making the pin-wheel. First, I could not get the cut out quotes to fit on the paper so I tried to fold them over to the other side, that didn't work because they wouldn't stay. So, I decided to cut all the extra off. The second problem I faced was to get the quotes to stay on so I chose to use the medium of Mod Podge to make them stay. Doing so caused my third problem which was when I went to fold the pinwheel over the Mod Podge was way to hard and the tack could not hold it without it tearing. Then trying to use a regular tack it would not hold it together or on the pencil. So, I had to problem solve once again and take a paper clip and unbend it to hold. Then after that it would not spin. So I rounded the end of the paper clip up and that helped a little bit but it's still not as of the good quality I wanted.

If I did the project over again I would most certainly would not use Mod Podge because that caused almost all of the problems I ran into. I probably would have found another way to put all the quotes on the pin-wheel. And taken more time on the art aspect and have done it A LOT neater.

The teapot was quite a challenge to make. My orginal design was going to be black with hand painted flowers all over it. Then I ran into many challenges. I looked at the time I had to do such things and I realized I wouldn't have enough time to hand paint the flowers so I decided to do them 3-D so they'd take up more space. That didn't work either. So I had no other choice but to do a big flower on the side of the teapot. The tea box was pretty simple to do, just the technology part was a little confusing but with help and problem solving I made a tea box that I'm very happy with. My teapot was very functional and it poured wonderfully. If I were to repeat the tea pot I would of picked a different design knowing what I know now, and spent a little more time glazing the tea pot. I plan to give my teapot to my great grandma because she loves to see us kids do creative things and she loves to drink tea. :)