Today starts the
work cycle again. I think I'll primarily be working on the drawings
for the mountain wall. I received the files on Friday and I think
they'll work. Now I have to get them printed out and figure how I'm
going to make them into patterns.
At this rate
we're going to be late getting our winter garden in.
Well.
We are already
late getting our winter garden in.
I've been
working this weekend on getting the grass and weeds out that grew
unrestrained during the summer while it was too hot to do any sort of
chores except water the plants and I intended to finish that yesterday but then I remembered that I had to box up and send off three pieces
to a gallery for a show that opens in October.
The gallery
owner doesn't actually want them to arrive before Friday but if I
don't send them off this morning, they won't get sent til next Monday
because this little transplanted city girl is not willing to brave
waste her time at the post office in the city. Not when she can
leave the house, go to the bank, go to the post office, and be back
home in 15 minutes or less out here in this little country town.
A line at the
post office is maybe two people in front of you and that's if you go
at lunch time.
So I abandoned
the garden and started wrapping up and boxing for shipping the
aforementioned works.
I didn't get
'Ode To A Peach' finished in time for the opening and I didn't get
the three large botanica erotica pieces finished and displayed like I
mused I might much to the gallery owner's disappointment but I have
promised them to her when they are finished. The show will go for a
while so I hope to get it sent before it is over.
Well, I'm off to
work in the city for another week. If things go well, we might
finish the map wall.
good luck on the pattern-making! cannot imagine working on such different scales of size. :)
ReplyDeleteThe gallery is so lucky to get anything at all! Your work is really amazing.
ReplyDeleteI so relate to the post office dilemma. Use our tiny village post office and brave the mean postmistress or go to the big town post office and balance those boxes in a long line AND brave the postal postal workers at the counter.
ReplyDeleteI find the postal workers here in medium size town to be a bit full of themselves and the ones down south were always happy and kind. City vs country.
ReplyDeleteI love these pieces Ellen! Such big boxes for such little things. Do you ever make more than one so you can keep one for yourself?
Beautiful work. Entrusting your glass art to the post office must be slightly scary!
ReplyDeleteA winter garden, now there's an idea that we ponder year after year, but never get around to doing.
I don't get to go to our small town post office that often (& actually, I reckon our town isn't that small compared to yours), but the ladies at the post office near where I work are great. But the lines are long - no matter WHEN I go.
ReplyDeleteYour little winter garden can wait, can't it? Creating your beautiful pieces and getting paid is good too, yes?
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a short line at a post office, even here in England.
ReplyDeleteKerry said what I was thinking, too -- it must be nerve-wracking to entrust your creations to the postal service!
I like your work! It almost has an Asian look to it. Think I know some transplants who would be intrigued. Don't worry about the winter garden just yet - Texas winters continue to shrink, don't they? Good to be back here again....EFH
ReplyDeleteSorry I've been missing in action too so missed a couple of your blogs - now playing catch-up. Lovely shots from in your garden ... three bags of onion sets arrived a week or so ago and I need to get out and plant them before the end of the month - which is Sunday. So that's my weekend taken care of.
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