New Day #293

Got crafty with my friends over at the Davis Graveyard. Every year, Jeff and Chris create an award-winning cemetery display, every bit of which is handmade. If you're reading this in the Portland area, you've got to go see it.

Floyd and I learned how to carve a tombstone:

Yeah, I know, we look like Yentl the Yeshiva Boy and a Franciscan monk.

Then we learned how use a dremel and a hot knife, the latter of which is the funnest thing ever:


And here's the final product for my final remains:

If you'd like to own this one singular sensation, you'll need to come to the graveyard this Friday night where it'll be auctioned off by Portland Center Stage to raise money for its high school playwright program. Contact Jessy at PCS at (503) 445-3744 / jessyf@pcs.org for specifics.