Gather Socks

Start­ing off with a lit­tle project that I final­ly fin­ished. The Gath­er socks. I start­ed these in August and fin­ished them in Octo­ber — not bad for me. I bought the yarn (and nee­dles) from Cir­cle of Yarns in Kala­math Falls OR on … 

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Yellow Walls

The painters are done and I have reclaimed my space. The move out and back into the stu­dio was almost pain­less. Prob­a­bly because I had recent­ly reor­ga­nized all the crap and there had not been much time for cruft to accumulate. … 

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Reusable Grocery Bag

Every­body is doing it. Even here in the “bub­ble.” Using those ugly green reusable gro­cery bags. Heart­warm­ing eco-points 8. Style points 0. I won’t even men­tion what they chose to fill it with for this image. Yuck! I made this one … 

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TGIF — Gothic Arches

Two new/old goth­ic arch­es. I found these while I was purg­ing the work­ing projects piles. They aren’t much to look at being just a cou­ple of exper­i­ments with back­ground cre­ation tech­niques. The birds and flow­ers was based on a piece … 

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Shiny…

I took a PMC (pre­cious met­al clay) work­shop with Mered­ith Arnold last week­end. It took about 8 hours to make these four pieces in a class room. They are con­struc­tion sam­ples so fin­ish qual­i­ty is low. PMC is nice to work with. … 

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Housekeeping

I cleaned out the top draw­er in my bed­side table. Among the detri­tus were these. Rang­ing form a brass koala giv­en to me by a stranger in San Fran­cis­co my fresh­man year in col­lege to a bot­tle shaped pin from the … 

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