Aragorns finished....

Here are two Aragorn customs I finished yesterday, along with my own (and Legolas providing the usual security services!), and a close up of the heads when they were painted.

6 Anakins, 3 Terminators, 2 Aragorns and a Honeymoon

Last week there were a few interruptions to my working schedule (wedding and honeymoon planning stuff that I'd forgotten we had to do that week)... so the Anakin and Terminator heads didn't get finished. But I'm back on it now and the Anakin heads will be finished the early part of next week. Today (Saturday) I'm getting done two full figure Aragorn customs that I should have had finished a while ago... so I'm doing these today instead of housework. (It'll still be there tomorrow)

The Arnie heads I'll be starting the first half of next week when I'm painting the Anakin heads. I'll also be starting the next batch of Obi-Wan heads, I think it's 3 I have to paint although I can't remember off the top of my head.

On a different note however is the latest with our honeymoon plans. For those who don't know we're planning to spend 3 weeks in a 25 ft motorhome driving all around the USA, seeing as many of the places we've always wanted to see but never had the chance to. (Neither of us have ever been to America before)



Since me and Jane got together 11 years ago now, we've always fantasized about taking a full year and driving around america in a campervan... although we new it would never probably happen. When thinking about our honeymoon however we realised we could do this just this! (just a slightly shorter version!)

As it stands (and we're trying really hard to achieve this.... Jane is working all the long hours she can, and I am painting and sculpting my little fingers off) we can't afford the whole trip. But we have a cunning plan...

We realised that some people would be getting us wedding gifts, and we love them for that, but we've been together 11 years already.... we have pretty much everything we're ever going to need (let alone we don't really have any space for any more stuff!) so we don't need any more dinner service sets, kettles, toasters, vases etc. You get my point anyway.

So what we're asking everyone, is if they could put that money to better use. Instead of buying us a generic gift from some expensive department store, put that same money towards our honeymoon fund. Trust us... the memories from seeing all of the above places across America (along with the photos and videos we'll be taking) will last us a lifetime! And will be a much better gift. Quite probably the best gift anyone could ever give us.

Quite simply... they'll be giving us the trip we've dreamed about for over 11 years.

As we have friends overseas who won't be attending the wedding, and also so we can keep track of things and can plan our trip around the fund, we set up a website.

www.ouramericanhoneymoon.com

On this site site people can read about our plans for the honeymoon, see the full list of what places we hope to see, read the story of how Jane was proposed to... etc. There is also a section where people can 'buy our miles'. If someone decides they'd like to give us the gift of a ten mile section of the trip... or twenty, fifty etc, then they can do this with a few clicks of the mouse.

This can be used by friends overseas, or indeed family closer to home (the earlier we know how much our fund is, then we can plan our trip around that).

On that site there's a link to the blog we set up for the wedding plans/honeymoon etc, but I'll give you the link here too.

www.ouramericanhoneymoon.blogspot.com

On this we'll be talking about the plans for the wedding as we make them. Including things we've booked (photographers etc), headaches, happiness, highs and lows. We'll take this right through until after the wedding... including the honeymoon. At which point the main website will be used for showing photos of the wedding and the honeymoon. We also hope to make blog posts while we're in America, while we're on the road, possibly with photos.

We can't wait for this.... we're so excited!!

Darren (and Jane)