Gone.....

At 10:15 am June 30th the windows left my studio
to travel to their new destination.

After educating the handlers how to pick them up
store them
and travel with them...
AND
to make 2 trips...!!

• they signed off
• they left
• they arrived safe (with number 1)
• they came back collected the second panel

and templates to take to the cabinet maker...
and after finally convincing them the panels were NOT needed at the cabinet makers

• they took them and placed them in a safe storage space...i hope

my babies are gone...

they will call me when they have been installed so i can get a final picture..

the studio is almost back to order (well as ordered as this studio gets)

so

• i am going to begin teaching sessions again..
• and working on the classes i have started for my own growth...
• back to business in other words

:)

Saturday @ 3:15 pm

This is IT...the second panel of the restoration project for the Hospital Chapel...YAY!!!

Monday I will deliver the two panels and they can begin their installation plans.
then I will go get a completed picture.

But,
For my part, I am DONE!!!!!!!!!

Probably my last restoration commission.

Fire...

In the sky!! Last night was the most lightening activity I have seen in a couple of years. The one picture here and I can't tell which one it is right this second...I think the middle one,
looks like the strike is echoing.




The storm was actually happening in Nebraska...which is directly South of us. Our place attracts storms and a lot of them start in our field and move off.






Storms are intense on the plains. I saw flashing under the shades,
eeearyyy looking flashes
and heard nothing, so I assumed there was a fire..panicked I ran to the door.

Of course lightening like this could start a fire if things were dryer. But since it is wet and green still
I could relax and just watch the amazing show...then too I needed to worry about a tornado, but it didn't 'feel' like that.



I have been busy finishing up this 2 panel restoration project, (story somewhere in past post)
very close to done! When I flip the panel today soldering side 2 and clean up...then delivery hopefully Monday.
Then
I can get back to my Layer Love lessons...Everyone I think is on the last lesson, I am still on lesson 5...but I will get caught up quick!

Thanks for stopping in... :)

Lady Bug Box

Finished the little feet box birth announcement.

The decorative effect on the solder is little lady bugs.

Aren't they cute!

the bevels added along the sides of a box allow light to enter and illuminate the lid.

Layer Lesson 4

Layer Love directed by Julia Prichard lesson 4 in gray tones and introducing crackle paste.

She used Tim Holtz crackle paste and that stuff looked a lot easier to produce good results than from what I used being the Golden crackle paste.

I had lot of problems with my crackle cracking. It has been determined (we think) that the paste had begun drying out as it sat on my shelf waiting to be tried.

I did the best I could with this lesson.

I am behind by 3 probably 4 lessons now so I done with this one.

Here is the example.

I learned that in using crackle the project must be immobile (so tape down the paper).

Should have a creamy consistency.

And crackle doesn't chalk flake.

I probably never would have experimented with the stuff so in doing the exercise I gained that practice.

yay!

Flipped..

See how cool the rock is now!...

i had to flip it over

the birds are on their own for a little bath.

i need to make one of those little doors for it...

a faery door!

the big metal jaw looking things

are called

tongs

when we worked the water...a bazillion years ago

these are what were on the boat that craig caught clams with

they dropped over the side

grabbed a chunk of bottom

raised up back onto the boat

opened on the culling board

where the clams were dug from the bottom catch and kept

then the rest was swept back overboard

and another grab made back up...open...back over

craig typically worked on 60 feet of water draw

and the tongs were set/dropped/back up every 30 seconds

fast work

needed to be alert...if the hydraulics messed up

you were looking at 300 pounds of metal trying to whack at you

it could hurt...

for inquiring minds...

:)

Been Doing Lots

First of all I want to show you the coolest rock! You can see it there in the center it holds water...for the birds but
it also looks like door turned the other way and i might put it that way...not sure yet, i found it walking through the trees looking for antlers.


Here I am setting up to stain glass for a birth announcement box.
Everything is ready.
Palette for grinding the glass and mixing up the stain
and glass substrate to make my marks.










Here the feet are applied and ready to fire in the kiln.









This is the piece I prepared to place the feet over to fuse to creating the desired ordered border...ladybugs.










Here is the finished top. a few bubbles appeared but they are kinda cute so i am thinking this is a keeper. Next i make the box part.