Stained Glass

I've had some people ask me about the picture I currently have up on my facebook page so I will explain...

Every year at Christmas time, my principal has the 5th graders at our school do a stained glass window project involving cutting out a picture and then filling in the holes with tissue paper to make a stained glass effect. It's a pretty big project and ends up being hung up in the windows of the entry way of our school (it's very pretty). This year, since my co-workers and I have had student teachers, we have been given odd jobs around the school including hanging up the stained glass artwork. The principal asked us to pick out a few of the really nice looking pieces to hang in his office windows. As we were hanging up the windows, we noticed there were some spaces in between and I made a remark that our pictures would fit nicely in those spaces. A few months ago, we had school picture day and each year the photographer gives the teachers and staff a free packet of photos and it's always the largest package which includes an 8 x 10. What are we supposed to do with an 8 x 10 photo of ourselves...sign, frame, and place them in your principal's office, duh! since then we have been looking for ways to incorporate our faces into our principal's office or daily happenings.

What my co-workers weren't expecting was that I would go home and actually map out stained glass images of our faces. Once I had made the suggestion about hanging our pictures up, my mind started working and eventually evolved into stain glass artwork. I cut out the black outlines and then Adam and Garrett filled in their own faces. We eventually snuck into the office and hung up our masterpieces and then hung around to see how long it would take him to notice. We had a good laugh.

We found out that our principal expected that we were up to no good as we were way too quiet in the faculty room that day and kept to ourselves when he walked through the room. After hanging up our faces, we noticed that there was a 4th window that needed something so a couple of days later, I made a window of our principal.

We have too much free time on our hands...don't worry, it ends this Friday as that is our student teachers' last day.