FIREWORKS & MORE
This is a full weekend for us. Pete just left for a ride on his motorcycle. Later today we are going to a friend's house for a little cookout at 5:00. I'm in the midst of making baked beans to take.
Tomorrow I am picking up Maria at 1:00 and taking her to see the peacocks at Red Barn. I have seen them before, and I think Maria would be fascinated by them. I've got some great pictures, but just haven't gotten them posted here yet. We'll be taking our cameras for sure. Then she is spending the night with us, so we'll probably go out for pizza (her fav).
Then on Sunday at 11:00 a.m., a friend is having a gathering at her house, just the girls--our "gathering of strong women."
We are all either artists, cancer survivors, or a combination of the two. Even though we have those two things in common, we are a very diverse group, but we all just seem to fit together, too.
Monday will be back to regular routine. Tuesday, Nancy and I are getting together to do a little clay work.
I have been in the studio creating for several days now. I had not been in there to do anything since I finished my last commission almost two months ago. It was a huge job, and I knew I wanted a break for a little while, but days led to weeks, to months, and nothing. I kept thinking I had lost it, or lost my desire to create, and that kind of scared and depressed me. I just kept finding other things I'd rather be doing, and I did them instead. But when I went in there the other day and just stood at my work table, it was a good old familiar feeling, and I don't know what or how it happened, but stuff just started flowing from my mind and my hands, and soon it felt like it used to. I'm guessing I was just burned out and needed a break.
I'm experimenting (with copper --- I love copper), and that is always exciting and gets the juices flowing. I am making a small free-hanging lizard, but I am making the feet from heavy gauge copper, tinned, then attached to the glass, and I'm putting three purple oval-shaped faceted jewels on his back. This is a commission job, and I am going to make two different ones for the client to choose from. The one she doesn't take, I'll put out in the gallery to sell.
Now...........the fireworks. These are ones I didn't show from last year. When you don't have a tripod and don't know what the heck you are doing, you can get some pretty strange effects. Some are "almost normal," but I like the strange ones the best.
There's more more weirdness behind the cut.
That is actually a lighted sign and some street lights and other lights down below.
Tomorrow I am picking up Maria at 1:00 and taking her to see the peacocks at Red Barn. I have seen them before, and I think Maria would be fascinated by them. I've got some great pictures, but just haven't gotten them posted here yet. We'll be taking our cameras for sure. Then she is spending the night with us, so we'll probably go out for pizza (her fav).
Then on Sunday at 11:00 a.m., a friend is having a gathering at her house, just the girls--our "gathering of strong women."
We are all either artists, cancer survivors, or a combination of the two. Even though we have those two things in common, we are a very diverse group, but we all just seem to fit together, too.
Monday will be back to regular routine. Tuesday, Nancy and I are getting together to do a little clay work.
I have been in the studio creating for several days now. I had not been in there to do anything since I finished my last commission almost two months ago. It was a huge job, and I knew I wanted a break for a little while, but days led to weeks, to months, and nothing. I kept thinking I had lost it, or lost my desire to create, and that kind of scared and depressed me. I just kept finding other things I'd rather be doing, and I did them instead. But when I went in there the other day and just stood at my work table, it was a good old familiar feeling, and I don't know what or how it happened, but stuff just started flowing from my mind and my hands, and soon it felt like it used to. I'm guessing I was just burned out and needed a break.
I'm experimenting (with copper --- I love copper), and that is always exciting and gets the juices flowing. I am making a small free-hanging lizard, but I am making the feet from heavy gauge copper, tinned, then attached to the glass, and I'm putting three purple oval-shaped faceted jewels on his back. This is a commission job, and I am going to make two different ones for the client to choose from. The one she doesn't take, I'll put out in the gallery to sell.
Now...........the fireworks. These are ones I didn't show from last year. When you don't have a tripod and don't know what the heck you are doing, you can get some pretty strange effects. Some are "almost normal," but I like the strange ones the best.
There's more more weirdness behind the cut.
That is actually a lighted sign and some street lights and other lights down below.