(hee hee, made ya look! Yes, I know that there are more than two cranes on this lightswitch … but I bet you counted them before I admitted that – eh? 🙂
Two cranes
some January gifts
I made some pot holders for some folks in January:
Yellow city scene
I’ve been having some trouble with the epoxy messing with the clarity of my pictures….. this used to be a city scape….. now it just looks like a yellow light switch:
Rag rug – complete!
it’s been a while since I posted anything here…. let’s see if I can get this blog rolling again…. this will *also* require getting *ME* rolling again in the “actually makes/finishes art stuff” category…..
remember this post?
That was the half-finished rag rug…. which is now finished and living in my bathroom!
New toy!!@!
Merry Christmas to meeeeee….
(This is going to take some practice and some getting used to —– my first 10 attempted prints were……inconsistent, to say the least……)
Warm Windows — 68% complete!
Another “not art, but definitely a project!” post:
These warm windows have been a long time coming……. and are not actually finished. Window on the left is held up by velcro and has no mechanism for being raised yet. I ran out of plastic rings but couldn’t wait to see what both of them looked like when they were up! Window on the right is more done (and can be raised) but I was too tentative in some of my sewing because I didn’t think about the mechanics & need to go back to sew the rings such that the thread holds ALL layers of the cloth together… My bedroom is sooooo dark at night now. It’s nice!
New coat hangers!
Not art, but definitely a project:
I’m so happy to have these on my door!
(Potential problem though = I’m not sure how much weight they can hold before ripping out of the, presumably hollow-core, door)
New sidelight!
I got tired of the old, malfuncitoning, (semi)motion-sensing light at my side door, so a little more than a week ago I replaced it with a NEW light! It’s so bright! And doesn’t look at all like I thought it would on my house, but that’s oK, I like it anyway. Thirty bucks well spent!
OLD light vs. NEW light
Birdbath
A cement mushroom in progress…
Played with cement just a little bit before it got cold outside…. and now I have a 70% finished mushroom hanging out in my kitchen….
First, create a plain (if lop-sided) mushroom from a lightweight cement recipe that you just happen to have the ingredients lying around:
Begin attaching “reject” glass pieces around the edge with mortar:
Fill in the rest with pieces of broken and leftover kitchen tiles (these were really fun to smash in to smaller pieces with a hammer —- though next time I think I need to break them in to even smaller pieces):
NEXT UP: grout the cracks & seal the mushroom…… someday when I get tired of having a half-finished mushroom in the corner of my kitchen 🙂