early morning muse
Jun 01 2009
For Christmas 2007, Jon and I bought his mother a digital picture frame. After growing accustomed to the idea of yet more geekery (she married an engineer and raised 2 of them, to boot!), last Christmas she handed off one of her three plastic frames and asked me to do something with it. [...]
May 22 2009
Last month I invested in a Shop Fox Benchtop Sandblaster and I’m happy I did. In less than half a day, I was able to strip the paint from more than a dozen tins of varying sizes. I love working with tins, but admit that I find sanding them by hand a tedious [...]
Mar 11 2009
This notebook was pulled apart and altered from the ground up. There is great satisfaction in taking something bland and giving it new life. This project is also the last time I intend to use Best-Test paper cement in my projects. It works well as an adhesive but smells (uncomfortably) nasty, even [...]
Dec 11 2008
Each new project is another lesson learned. I appreciate the challenges this ornament project brought; they pushed me far beyond my comfort zone. I learned I can work under the pressure of unexpected deadlines, though I need to be more efficient with my time. I need to hone my skills for sculpting [...]
Nov 06 2008
She inspires me to seek: myself, art, myself and others through art. No matter how great or small, she cheers my efforts, encourages my curiosity, and supports my debris-collecting habits. She squirrels away bits of scrap fabric, lends me her stamps, and hunts up old, broken jewelry to send me home each visit [...]
Amateurs practice until they get it right; professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.
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