a work in progress….
The beginnings of some jewelry….
…..and I think I broke my tool 🙁 stupid cheap-o steel combo tool :[ Turns out that the inner screwy bits weren’t strong enough to withstand the torque and I believe a small portion of the inside is stripped on one side. doh.
Hopefully still useable on thinner gauges…. we’ll see tomorrow, I guess.
Last night I spent a solid 90 minutes working on a secret metal project (reveal coming in Feb) and then went on to painting just because I enjoy painting. That being said, I think I need to start out with a better idea of what I want to end up with the next time I paint 😉 to me, this just looks kinda messy. BUT! it was fun. I intended to wake up early this morning to paint before work, buuuuuut….. multiple snooze happened instead.
Latvian Graffiti
8″ x 10″
Inspired by friends who are participating in NaNoWriMo, I decided to see if anything similar, but more in my own line of hobbies existed…. and it does! Here’s someone who’s been doing Art Every Day Month for 9 years!
I’m #328.
I’ve actually been playing around with this idea for most of this year. In January, my mom sent me a link to a blog/person who had decided to make 2011 the year of the ring, and set a goal of making one ring every day for a year as an exercise in creativity. I was intrigued and in many ways wanted to try something like that for myself, but also scared. A whole year of promising to create something every day??!? That sounded CRAZY. Especially since at the time I was traveling more often for work, traveling for fun, and was spending more time than I care to admit working in general (heh – perhaps working a lot to help avoid facing personal life mess, too).
BUT.
In the past six months I’ve changed a lot of things. Fixed a lot of things. Gotten rid of people who weren’t kind to me. Etc. Now, one month I can do. So. Here we go.
This month I prepared my very first fascinator for use at a fancy tea party:
Turns out that they are really fun to make AND I now see fascinator possibilities everywhere I look! Which means I’ll be hosting my own tea party in January or February just to have a reason to create (and wear!) another one (^_^) And since I made too many green felt “flowers”, I then experimented with barrette possibilities:
I’m surprised at how much I actually liked how those barrettes turned out!
My very favorite piece made during that week of teaching:
Which looks like this when it’s held up to the light:
After all of that stuff got finished in one measely week, I decided it was high time to finish this cement mushroom project and get the darn thing OUT of my kitchen. so yeah. It’s done now. I know how to make better ones, too, now. Maybe next summer….
Here’s what I *wanted* to make more of, but certain other instructors in charge of the kilns wouldn’t let me …. blah blah … incompatible glass … blah blah blah …. pieces might explode or break off … blah blah … you’re lucky this one didn’t break yet … blah blah blah …
😀
Just teasing mom. I know you’re right. But I still WANT to make more of these anyway.
Every so often when we were firing the kilns for fused glass we’d have a little space on a shelf that could still fit another piece in. And since it’s a shame to not use every spot you have when you’re firing, I’d get the occasional chance to create a little something-or-other to fit in those spaces. Some of these are experimenting with some technique that my mother wanted to show people and we were making sure it worked before telling them to try it 🙂 like using a candle to bend stringers for those crooked mouths.
