Heh heh heh...me make big mess!!!

Well last weekend I decided to start to carve some of my tombstones.  I was kind of having a hard time due to the fact that the garage was freezing!!!  It made for some good squiglly lines. lol!  So here are some of the ones I started on.  There are more but the batteries in the camera were dying.  So let me know what you think.  Any feedback is very appreciated and helpful!!

Above is an old white styrofoam one I had laying around that I painted with spatter paint then carved it.  This one also happens to be for my sister.  I actually did this one last year but did some touch up's to it for this year.

This one is one I carved for a very good friend of mine.  And yes her last name is "Frinchaboy"  Yeah she had some fun with that name in high school!

This one is made for my mom.  She is an animal lover like I am and at one point was taking care of 11 stray cats.  We finally got homes for most of them but she still ended up with two.  The tombstone reads:  

Ardel Briggs   10 31 1937    2 21 2000

She was an old lady who lived in the stickes who took in feral cats that gave her the fits.  They over ran the house and were such a pain that they drove her quite deeply insane.

This one I am making for a Airborne buddy of my hubbys.  As you can see the scrolls are carved seperately, they will have more carving done on them to make them look more like scrolls.  The top is also carved seperately the center of the top piece will be carved out and an ARMY coin will be placed dead center.  His name is done with all individual carved pieces so they are raised then in the center of the stone his death date will be carved into the stone, then a raised carved piece of the Airborne emblem will be just below.  Then below that, carved in the stone will read:  Kill 'em all    Let God sort 'em out.

So it looks like I will be doing some more carving this weekend too.  Wish me luck...it's supposed to be cold again this weekend!  I hope you like 'em.