Saturday Morning Traditions

Cereal. It’s part of a balanced breakfast. It contributes nutrients that our body needs. It also evokes memories of childhood: Saturday mornings eating cereal and watching cartoons. After cartoons were finished, we played outside until the sun set. There was a nice balance of screen time and wild-thing time. Life was simple then. Now that I am a parent, I want my children to experience that same balance. I struggle with the common questions: how do I comfort, what should I say, am I a good enough…what’s for breakfast? Let’s just sit down together and eat cereal.

Alternative views, including a shot of tiny little carved feet on the bottom:

Awesome work! Love the inside. Are the 3 pieces of cereal separate pieces you glued on top or are they relief carved?

Rick Moreton said:

Awesome work! Love the inside. Are the 3 pieces of cereal separate pieces you glued on top or are they relief carved?

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Thanks Rick! I carved them separately, and then glued them to the bowl via 1/8" dowels. I thought about relief carving them, but this was a way to make them a bit more realistic and also to get stronger shadows.

Michael:
"Frosted Mini-Wheats - finally! Wonderful detail, superbly executed. The "cereal" in the bottom looks good enough to eat; but you didn't finish the milk....!
Cheers.
Barry W. Larson
Calgary, Alberta, Canada eh!

It seems like only yesterday, you were a newbie, Michael. I'd say, Trajectory! Wonderful, evocative, whimsical, original piece. Kudos.

Good job Michael.

Haha- I love it! Total surprise looking inside. Mission accomplished!
Big parenting moment when the kids get up and serve themselves cereal by themselves!
So well done. How did you do the spoon??

Thanks a lot Barry, Dean, Dimitris, and Will!

Dean, how time flies! I give a lot of credit to this forum. Being able to “hang out” here is a great push for a lot of skills. Still a long way to go though!

Will, gosh that will be great—can’t even fathom that, haha. My 2.5 year old is in an early rise phase right now. Whew! And for the spoon, I cut away the front of it except for a little tan in the middle. Drilled a hole on the bowl, and then epoxied the tan into the hole. It took a lot of filing to get the angle of the spoon to match the bowl, but worth it in the end.

So cool Michael! Your details and evolution of the process keeps getting better!

Very Clever. When reviewing the gallery this piece caught my attention then the inside held me. Having likely consumed a million or more mini-wheats I feel attached. Great job!