#25 &26 Chains and Spheres

Chains...these are the style chains I make...

Some of the spheres I have worked up in glass...

Yes I am behind...where is the news there!

and now I am caught up...here at least LOL

have a nice day today!

#24 Zoom

I lack inspiration today...I went out the back door of the store and zoomed in on the tanks...

busy yesterday and hope for the same today!

Gaining on the lamp!!!

Have a sparkly day :D

#23 Looking Down

Looking down is next on the list for Kim Poole's photo challenge if you are following along with me...

Looking down I have to be on the watch for Jbear who is quite mobile now!
but
still rather small, for such a Big Girl!

I am 4 weeks old TODAY!!
I can open the kennel door and go in and out in and out...I eat big girl food (but still need momma)
I can climb!
and I a great at barking!

Thanks for coming by!

#22 A Mess

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE

This is just part of the mess I created fixing the feast.

We had:

Candied sweet taters
Candied carrots
Dressing
Turkey
Gravy
Cheesecake

I enjoyed the company and the food ...too much!

Hope y'all have an  enjoyable day of giving thanks.

Bless y'all ♥



#21 Found

December 10th is my new extended deadline to finish the lamp! WAHOOOOOOOOO!!!
cause
December 1 was going to be a miracle!

Thank you TIM!!!


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#20 Twisted

muuaaaahhhaaaaaaa...nah i am not going into that kind of twisted...today

all my focus until this is done is the LAMP...and puppy...
this twisted mess is how much foil i have gone through already...

:)

thanks for looking

#19 Hands

Hands...

There are comforting hands...punishing hands...punished hands...gentle guidance hands...modeling hands...just to name a few kinds of hands there are.

These are WORKING hands.

They do all kinds of work.

They haul,dust,cook,tend younguns,train critters,clean critters...(of all kinds)..and then they work in art.

This is but 1 form of media these hands work...this is the foiling step of cold glass work.

thank you for coming by today..

#18 Fence

 

Fence is today's photo challenge

I don't have a lot of fence diversity...livestock fence of two types...1 has a mesh style taller weave and the other 3 or 5 stands of barbed wire.

We have the woven taller version...both are sorta just basic ranching fence....I could have taken a picture of ill repaired fencing..
Or years of snow beaten down and overgrown...
but I tend to like corner braces for some odd reason...

So here ya go a brace...not a corner brace but a end brace.

Braces tell the fence which way to pull itself...depending on the way you hang the wire...see up there the wire goes left to bottom right diagonal...that tells the fence to lean to the right so it doesn't lean to left and travel down hill.

The X in the brace tells the fence a gate will hang on you...this gate has been moved so none it there now...but should a person want to put cows or horses in there the gate can easily be rehung.

There ya go fence speak..

have a good day and thanks for looking...

#17 Fresh

My idea was fresh approach to what I was torturing myself through doing...standing.
At the cutting phase I prefer to stand...at the grinding and fitting phase I need to stand...
but for the foiling stage I prefer to sit.

The way I had things arranged wasn't affording that possibility.

So I rearranged and now I can sit and foil.

The second table with nothing but a pattern affixed to it, will be where part 2 gets laid as it is cut and ground.

Then they will get transferred to the mold to shape the shade.

Here is a close up of what is done and an idea of what the shade will look like when it becomes the shade

Thank you for coming by!

#16 Decay

I enjoy photographing these old buildings out here ..this is an old school house now beginning to decay and fall in...I am showing the roof...

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#15 Guilty Pleasure

For ME a guilty pleasure is sleeping IN ...and that clock says I slept an extra hour this morning.

# 14 Them

Would be AAAAALLLL these tiny pieces of stems and branches that go into the lampshade I have been working up with its looming deadline of DEC 1!
I am still intending to make this happen...

With the cutting grinding and fitting of all of 'them' I will be half completed the glass proper of the shade !!! HALF
That is not including the foiling!!!

Needless to say I AM TIRED!

thank you for dropping in to watch the challenge...I appreciate your support...

a special thankyou to Elizabeth and Bluebeard who always leave me a comment ON the blog
I especially like that
♥

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#13 Reflections

The lights reflecting on the window from the inside are way prettier but they don't show up in the pictures.

This is half of the front window showing the winter branches. reflecting out part of the town.

I was going to do a personal sort of reflection look...but I feel too rushed today for a creative photo...
So we went quick.

thanks for coming by!