Showing posts with label ornaments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ornaments. Show all posts
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Physical me vs. artist me
Wait wait, I'm an artist. I'm a crafts-person, I can't take time off to be sick. I need to be up daily and doing...making pottery and sculptures, painting those butterflies and trees and ladybugs and even bees with glazes!
Why oh why do the most needful times end up knocking me out physically? I'm taking so many medications I think they are playing soccer in my stomach. That's certainly what it feels like anyway...running up and down the field and kicking my intestinal track...and making gurgling noises with each goal!
And then there's the dizziness from various medications. They all say right on the label, do not drive or operate machinery until you have taken this for a while. I guess I'll just sit here.
And at least assemble my ornaments for this year.
They are not angels. And they are not amoebas, which was a silly use of glaze and clay a few years ago. Hey, why not hang amoebas on your tree? Well, I would have!
These are "Angels fly by taking themselves lightly." Or turtles? Or?
I figure a free-form ornament is as good as a ball...these are hoops, with a thingie dangling in the middle. And some beads and wire and ribbon. I wanted to go into something more than just the ordinary this year, but not quite as far as an amoeba.
So I sit in the sun (which gives these tired old eyes enough light to thread those tiny wires through the beads and clay holes.
Quote for today:
Why oh why do the most needful times end up knocking me out physically? I'm taking so many medications I think they are playing soccer in my stomach. That's certainly what it feels like anyway...running up and down the field and kicking my intestinal track...and making gurgling noises with each goal!
And then there's the dizziness from various medications. They all say right on the label, do not drive or operate machinery until you have taken this for a while. I guess I'll just sit here.
And at least assemble my ornaments for this year.
They are not angels. And they are not amoebas, which was a silly use of glaze and clay a few years ago. Hey, why not hang amoebas on your tree? Well, I would have!
These are "Angels fly by taking themselves lightly." Or turtles? Or?
I figure a free-form ornament is as good as a ball...these are hoops, with a thingie dangling in the middle. And some beads and wire and ribbon. I wanted to go into something more than just the ordinary this year, but not quite as far as an amoeba.
So I sit in the sun (which gives these tired old eyes enough light to thread those tiny wires through the beads and clay holes.
Quote for today:
Often the
hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl JungSaturday, October 20, 2012
Snowflakes
Yesterday I showed you the angels to hang on your tree. Now here come the snowflakes.
I have lots of time to either
a. not have to make any more holiday goodies
or
b. make many more until I have a huge inventory.
or
c. maybe just make a few more when people let me know what they like.
These are white clay, with glaze on one side. I will paint the opposite sides with gold paint, much like I did the bottom of my angels skirts. It isn't quite as sturdy as glaze, but will last fine for ornaments, which will be treated like glass ornaments are, as delicate.
My one thing I learned was that snowflakes actually are harder to make than angels. And I had more that broke in the construction process. But would you pay more for one? Nah, everyone thinks the angels are more valuable, because they are 3D, for one thing!
I have lots of time to either
a. not have to make any more holiday goodies
or
b. make many more until I have a huge inventory.
or
c. maybe just make a few more when people let me know what they like.
These are white clay, with glaze on one side. I will paint the opposite sides with gold paint, much like I did the bottom of my angels skirts. It isn't quite as sturdy as glaze, but will last fine for ornaments, which will be treated like glass ornaments are, as delicate.
My one thing I learned was that snowflakes actually are harder to make than angels. And I had more that broke in the construction process. But would you pay more for one? Nah, everyone thinks the angels are more valuable, because they are 3D, for one thing!
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