Finna

Golly gee...I have been trying to here for a long time...hope this shows up.

I have been trying to add a new photo to this blog and can't get my picture to post.  Got to relearn almost everything again.  Something that I could so easily now is hard.  Like how can I get the posting text bigger on the composing screen... Guess I was gone waaay tooo long!

Just another phase in life

For awhile I have been recovering from a serious foot and ankle surgery. I wasn't ready for such a long recovery and with the weather here as bad as it is, I have not been out and about at all.
I had to give up my metalsmithinng because of my health and the lack of funds at the college.
The arts are always the first to go in a budget crisis. It has been hard to give up all my time in a class setting and the friends at cllass. but, now I am going to try and make this a building time for myself and my art.  I want to relearn all the unused information I have neglected and get back to some 2D pieces.  I have to relearn how to size and post.  I have a new program for that and have to spend the time to re-learn how to do what used to be easy for me.  I have gotten back to visiting WetCanvas sites and following some of my old buddies there.  Hope to be able to participate and post there soon. Life has a way of making us grow and I am in a relearning phase.  

Changes....and more changes!

Here I am again trying to get back on the art wagon.  It took me awhile and a couple of tries to get back here. I hope I can keep posting now.  I have neglected my 2 D arts for quite awhile, I've been busy in the 3 D world of metals.

Golly gee whiz!!  I didn't realize how long it has been since I have posted here.  It wasn't because I was having fun, that is for sure.  I do want to get back on the internet and back to my art.  Now... I don't have a printer or a program to digitize and size any art that I do, so getting those will be my first order of business.   Be back soon, I hope.

Update on the Monarch Box

  My box project is getting ready to sand and finish.  I have one piece of soldering to do, I just couldn't get one little piece ( out of 8) to sweat solder!   I tried several times and even sawed another one out, just couldn't it to stick.  I was afraid I would un-solder the other 7 pieces or melt the whole box top, so I stopped for the day.  Tomorrow I will try again and then decide how much more I want to do to the box.  I have considered cut outs on the top or bottom, plexi in the bottom as a window and several other ideas.  Time is the deciding factor and I am running out of it.
   I have tried several new techniques, including using a raw potato as a heat sink.  It worked!! I have so many ideas and so little time.........

This is what it looks like when I leave class late in the afternoon.  I don't know who's farm is, but it makes a nice picture.  It is cold and rainy and the ground is still frozen.  I like to take sunsets and cloud shots, I will try this one again when the ground is green.

April Showers

Here I go again... It is raining hard with thunder and lightening out tonight, so I am here at my computer.  I haven't been doing any art other than for my  metals class.  I need to finish my current project and start taking pictures of what I have done this year.
   I am currently working on a lidded box.  It will be a tribute to the Monarch butterflies I see in my yard.  I have always like to watch them, when I was a kid out on the Kansas Prairie I would sit in our garden watching them.  They liked to eat the dill plants as caterpillars.  I was totally mesmerized by the 'pillars.
   I started the box before I knew how endangered the Monarchs are becoming.  I hope they revive and find new lands to feed on.  I have a milkweed pod and a catalyst on the lid of my box and will put a real preserved butterfly inside.  I pinned it several years ago and found that it is marked as a male.  It is beautiful!
   Hope to finish it soon and get started on my hinged locket.  I will try and post soon.

 This bird house will be out again this year.  Hope another family of wrens moves in.  It has had wrens in it every year since a grand dter painted it.