Burnett Family

John-Clays’ most recent film project, Captivated, is contending as a finalist this weekend at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival! He served as the Director of Photography, Editor, and Assistant Director on the project.

Synopsis:
Everywhere we go we are surrounded by screens.
Have we entered a techno utopia or a virtual prison?

Should we be celebrating unreservedly
or should we be cautious and skeptical?

Is it the greatest leap in productivity
or the biggest setback from the things most meaningful in life?

Has today’s connectivity drawn us closer to one another
or strangely more disjointed?

Is our social experience richer and deeper
or more shallow and artificial?

Is it all of these things or none of them?

Discover insightful answers to these questions from media experts, church leaders, and inspiring individuals and families from across the country.

Most importantly you’ll discover how God’s word addresses the unique media challenges we face today.

John-Clay is in San Antonio right now attending the Film Academy and is giving us reports of great feedback on the film.
Lord-willing, most of us will be heading down to join him on Saturday for the closing ceremonies! Very exciting. :)

Besides the anticipation of the film possibly winning an award,
we are really looking forward to meeting all the great people he has worked with on recent projects.

So, stay tuned for more exciting updates in the very near future. :)

Nineteen days since our last blog post???? Please kindly ignore that fact. Actually, it doesn’t seem like we have had much of anything to post about – just normal life. :) So enjoy this random conglomeration of an update!

During Christmas and New Year’s, Dad re-did our kitchen floor using vinyl tiles.

Before (can you tell where our chairs have been? :)

After:

I’m so proud of my dad. Almost 15 years ago, he began remodeling this house that wasn’t even live-able. You wouldn’t be able to tell that if you walked in today! He has poured so much time, energy, and money into making it a HOME for us. Matter of fact, our house turned 100 years old in 2011! (We thought about having a celebration, but never got around to it. ;) Sure, there is always something more to fix and lots of “character” to the old place, but hey – that’s the fun of living in an old house, right? ;)

More of Abbie’s delectable delights – homemade strawberry, butter cream, & chocolate donuts…YUM. Strawberry was the best. :)

Uncle Chris and Aunt Janis were at Grandma’s over the weekend, and we really enjoyed spending time with them!

J-C and I competing with the Scrabble expert (aka: Uncle Chris).

Conclusion: I need to study more vocabulary words. :)

Aunt Janis, me, Carinna, Abbie, & Charity waiting a turn for one of our favorite Okie things to do…shoot guns. ;)

Well, that’s all the randomness for now. Lord-willing, it WON’T be 19 days before we post again! :-/ God’s got some things stirring in my heart that I hope to write about soon.

Until then, keep loving Jesus!!

There was once a 14 year old girl who got carving tools for Christmas just like she wanted. After taking them back and pitching in some money, she got some better quality tools, and proceeded to buy some basswood.  She looked up instructional videos online and started carving. First, she carved some axes. Then she tried a little man, who turned out more like a children’s Bible story character than a simple Santa Claus.
With that success behind her, she was ready for her next project, another little fellow. After several mistakes, and hours and hours of trying to get everything just so, he was finally complete.

She thought he’d look better with color, so she painted his coat, shoes, and eyes black, his hair and pants brown, his vest green, and his shirt ivory. He had so much more personality after she was done that her older sister said, “ You should name him!” She went around asking suggestions and finally decided on a name . . . . Mr. Ferdinand.

And that’s the story of how Mr. Ferdinand came to live with the Burnetts.

This is the Bible character I told you about in the story.

Did you know that God has His own carving project? ;) …

Several months ago, Mom bought a DVD on how to draw realistic portraits at Drawing Portraits from Photographs. Since then, Charity, Maggie, and I have gone through the entire DVD and these are the portraits that we have drawn.

The computer doesn’t do justice to how the portraits really look.

Maggie’s subject was Mom when she was 1 years old. Maggie enjoyed going through the lessons and I think she did a wonderful job on her portrait.

Charity’s subject was herself when she was 1 1/2 years old. Charity hasn’t done a whole lot of drawing recently so we were delighted that she went through the DVD with us! I think she did an excellent job!

My subject was a recent picture of Hannah. I enjoyed the DVD a lot!

We used some heavy sketch paper to draw the pictures, but are looking forward to using some smoother paper which will help with the graininess.

If you are interested in drawing portraits, we highly recommend this DVD!

~Carinna Burnett