Over the weekend, Genie had a day out with Joseph and Jenifer. We had been planning to have a day out with them separately where we would go to a store that had Lion Dance heads. Joseph has been playing around with his lion for about 2 years but only plays with it during January/Febuary as Chinese New year is around that time. Genie picked up a lion head for Jenifer to play with. The heads that you can purchase range from $30-$80 for child lion heads and adult professional heads useually range from $700-$1000. There are also many different types and styles, some malasian heads resemble kind of a unicorn/dragon form. The one that Jenifer got was about $40 and is very plain, and ugly. So the first thing to spruce it up is to remove all the existing fur and hair. After that is done, you can add new lion faux fur, the fluffier the fur the more interesting the lion will look. Real lion heads often use high quality faux fur or actual sheep wool. After adding the new fur Jewelling the lion and painting in new eyes is next. Some of the lion head eyes are very bobble eyed so experimenting on different eye color and designs is a little tedious. For this purple lion I tried to make it look a little more feminine so the eyes have a teardrop shape vs simple round ones. For the paint around the head I used acrylic and a sparkly iridecent clear over the rest of the lion head. the jewels are secured using a heat gun, and are overlapped over each other on the nose. Below are some progess pics.
Yesturday i turned 26 and although I feel older I still feel the same. However many things have changed this past year and from a few months down the road I will look back and realize how different I feel and how I matured in parts of my life. I find that I grow older things do get better, life seems so slow down but some things seem to get faster. I sometimes miss being younger, I miss when the kids were small and tiny like Juliana. I think its that they are more independant and dont need me to do everything for them. On friday I had a house party and we had friends and family over. It was all younger family, so everyone was ranging from 30 and under. We had amazing dipping sauces, tacos, chcken fajitas and springrolls, it was a great selection and the ladies are to thank as they started earlier in the day to prepare thr food while I was at work. I love having people over and just seeing everyone enjoy themself. We had the ladies chatting at the banquette table and everyone else was either hanging out on the couch or playing cards and nerf in the basement. I ended up getting this Huge nerf machine gun for my birthday and have been playing with the kids this whole weekend with it. We took turns sitting on a stool and getting blasted and bursting out in laughter. We also ran around the basement making b
ases and defending against bad guys. I guess one thing that I have learned about myself is that even with the busy schedule of raising a family and being a husband, father, brother, son, is to take the time to just enjoy being all of those things. In this past year, I have spend time with my dad watching movies and just getting that shoulder to shoulder time with him, or even just chatting about spiritual things and supernatural things. With wifey, I have been able to spend some alone time with her on dinner dates and married life events. The kids have enjoyed some extra good quality playtime with me, while helping me clean and cook during our nights alone together without mommy. 
sin and friend, they inspire me and makes me feel great, they move me, make me me feel special for who I am. look back at how He has changed my life, turned a lazy, demotivated, irresponsible, angry, person like myself into all the things I am today. God is so wonderful, and although many may not be able to relate, they may be at a different stage of walk in their life, nothing is as special as that day when you take that step. The day that changed me was the day I decided to give my life to Jesus, as a person I was made new. The guilt that I used to carry was wiped clean, all of the people I hurt, all the bad things I had done, none of that was there anymore. God took it away and gave me a new life to live by, a new standard a new sense of freedom, I was lost in life, lost in sin, lost in hate, and unforgiveness. I found such a deep love for life and for others, although I dont always get it right. I am definitely a different person than from who i was before I found Christ. And all of this would be purposeless and in vain if I hadnt found life and salvation through my Lord Jesus Christ. 
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