Sunday, November 20, 2016

rain and cold and recycling and art



We had our first real cold front blow in this weekend, preceded by a most welcome rainy day on Friday, after weeks and weeks of temps in the mid-80s. It was supposed to get down to 38˚ in the wee hours of this morning. Don't know if it actually did but it was cold enough in the house when we got up to turn on the heater which we did for the first time since we turned it off last spring.

Today would be a good day to work in the yard especially since I didn't get out there last Sunday but instead I'm driving to the city to take a truck load of recyclables (remember all those boxes of glass?) to a collection center and then head over to my daughter's house to help her get ready for Thanksgiving which we have been having at her house so the son and daughter-in-law will come.


I have all but finished all the little pieces I was working on for the two weekends in December, even got them photographed. I spent that rainy Friday making a photo box and then tried it out and it worked great! Better pictures than I had been getting and I didn't need to tweak them much if at all. Now I have time to work on my display which is pretty amateurish compared to the more sleek set-ups of some of the other participants.



After the open houses, I'll be starting in earnest on my next body of work...groupings of larger wall hung pieces that are variations on a theme. The first two are feathers on the beach and the moon. They're going to very different, I think, than what I have been doing. I'm also going to do some smaller framed pieces at the request of a gallery in Dallas that has three shows next year that they want to include our work in. I have 5 leftover frames from the Botanicas so I'm going to do pieces that will fit in them.



Well, I need to get on the road, the day is wasting. 




10 comments:

  1. How gorgeous, Ellen! Such sweet perfection!

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  2. I wish I had created something that lovely.

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  3. Great job on the photo box. The bee sculpture seems barely anchored.

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  4. Ooh - I need to make a photo box for my crochet stuff! That flower is very lovely in there.

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  5. Your work is filled with marvelous delicacy.

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  6. You got real rain? Lucky you. We did get some, but nothing particular. Still, I collected enough that my plants are good for a while.

    That bee sculpture is gorgeous, and the photo box really does seem to have done the trick. Very clever, I must say. I like the little pink flower inside the box, too. You must be so pleased.

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  7. That definitely looks like some England-style autumnal weather. :)

    Beautiful glass and photos with your new photo box!

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  8. beautiful pieces, I really like the bee, very delicate

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  9. The bee is just beautiful. How wonderful that you can create something like that.

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