tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52254927066208983602024-03-14T16:51:35.500+10:00Vintajia AdornmentsVintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-832131976540292202018-12-31T09:58:00.000+10:002018-12-31T09:58:44.963+10:00Ressurection Makies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yep 5 months since my last post, but I do have a valid excuse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My husband suffers from Parkinsons with associated dementia so have spent time making sure he has the aids to assist him daily and generally settling him into the new house and area.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">All went well and I was just getting into making when he had a fall and broke the top of the femur. Spent 6 weeks in hospital which was a terribly traumatic experience for a dementia sufferer. He is home now and has become a demon on the wheely-walker! Am currently working my way through the paperwork for the Home Care package he has been allocated. Thank you Federal Government!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ipswich is a town west of Brisbane and established in the mid 1800 and has the most wonderful timber cottages and federation and grand victorian buildings. When I get some me time will be out with the camera - have some ideas bubbling away in my head over these architectural beauties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So, have I actually made anything?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: medium;">Starting off with some rustic over-the-top ancient artifact earrings! OK made these a while ago and thought they were a little too totally unhinged. But apparently not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some ceramic decal earrings. The camera went cross eyed trying to focus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A little bit of fold forming and autumnal enamel</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Experiment with graphite powder. Great effect! Frustratingly uncontrollable! One more for the unhinged department</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">My minimalist abstract asymmetrical earrings - Oh Wait - Bad Greer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some Sweet Tweets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some edgy goodness with overfired white enamel with cupric oxide and graphite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Some sooooo cute little Echidna earrings. Ceramic decals made from my drawings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And still in an Aussie icon mode. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A taste of honey</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A desert vibration happening here. Tried a matte finish. Looks great but damn! harder to photograph than gloss.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Bought some more enamels in moody dark colours so decided to be much more controlled with the designs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Still working the same colour palette</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Yep fallen off the controlled wagon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Yeah!</b> Like these. My secret graphite recipe and hand drawn design</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ok have your eyes glazed over with all this earlobe adornment goodness? Is you bum numb?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well your reward is some necklaces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This one worked better in my mind. I forsee a rework in my future.</span><br />
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<br />Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-18435715983727692842018-07-15T14:40:00.001+10:002018-07-15T14:40:33.845+10:00Resurection Complete<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;"><b><i>Slowly it comes together.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Re used the old drawers. Added some cheapie shelves and a heavy duty shelf unit for storage. (Jarrah Underfoot on inspection tour)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">My Husband's affliction has been an extremely hard road to travel. The property was too hard for only one person (me) to maintain and at our family's insistence, we have put the place on the market and moved to Brisbane and finally settled in Ipswich.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">To get there. . . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">I did this. Multiplied by 7 other rooms and a 4 bay shed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Then finally this.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Four weeks later unpacked the 83 cartons and with the all the creature comforts sorted, began this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span>Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-58469016151606050942016-12-05T19:24:00.000+10:002016-12-05T19:24:19.522+10:00Waiting for the Light<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">After 5 stressful weeks of running on a generator, our off-grid solar power system is up and running again<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">, thank goodness!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The up side of this is,</span> I can now start a 2.5Kva generator on the first pull.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">First quirky little Sweet Tweets. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Flew </i>out of the shop! Laugh if you wish</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Went to the local gallery - sold!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Some red cardinals with wonky legs - flew out too!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> More - gone as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A widdle wabbit - gone</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Fall Rabbit gone as well.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I think I might be onto something . . . </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As a child on beach holidays I could always find an octopus including the highly venemous blue-ringed variety to which I fed muscles.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(Oh the blissful ignorance of youth)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I swam in the kelp with squid and have even been lucky enough to see a paper nautilus in it's natural habitat.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Since my widdle paited wabbit came out so well, and I do have a huge pile of china paint, how could I resist?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Multiple layers of china paint and a final layer of clear enamel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Couldn't resist a little fun on the counter enamel side.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Then, of course, I needed beads that reflected the weedy cluttered environment I imagined my wee beastie inhabiting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Definitely got my cephalopod love on! </span></span><br />
Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-80425850243391416492016-06-18T20:30:00.001+10:002016-06-18T20:30:55.161+10:00Of Grease and Fire<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Have you ever noticed how mechanical stuff seems to happen bunches?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Tally for this month: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Spend week wriggling under vintage 1954 tractor to remove filter for hydraulic system. Damn I love the smell of gear oil. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Pull wheel bearing out of 4wd repack and replace. Damn I love the smell of grease.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Pull defunct temperature probe out of venerable Bobby the Barrow (Bobcat) Try to fit new one but probe too big. More disassemble to come.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Replace front drive shafts on my little car. But hooray someone else did this!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">With my greasy black nails and total chaos in the studio things somehow appeared.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> A timber wolf etched into faux bone on enamel</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Next playing with ceramic decals fired into enamel surface. A few bubbles caused by air under top coat, but rustic wabi sabi is all OK. Counter enamel not thick enough and focal bowed. So first attempt at a soldered pin mounting. Like the simplicity it gives to the enameled piece.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Look at the bail upon which the golden angels hang. My battered gold and opal ring that has been at the bottom of my stuff drawer since forever.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My stuff drawer also yielded 70 packets of china paint squirreled away yonks ago. Figured I may as well try and use them. Mix with clear liquid enamel and painted away with many firing between layers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Awwwww a widdle wabbit. Almost outsmarted myself with the shape of the copper and with the enamel layers distorting the whole thing. Had to be a pin mount again. Only took 3 goes to figure it out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Quite minimalist for me don't ya think. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(I think I am now addicted to pin mounts).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span>Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-69353464978397610532016-05-21T13:35:00.000+10:002016-05-21T13:35:37.438+10:00Inching Forward<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I feel rather like a looper caterpillar (inch worm to you) except I am stuck at the top of the loop and not stretching out to move.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My husband's illness has been rather consuming. Getting the drug benefit v's the side effects balance has been a thrilling ride I can tell you. After 2 months of experimenting with dose rate (fingers crossed) I think we may have the beast under control.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In the makies department I been delving into more vitreous enamel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Just to show you I haven't been slack the next selection went to my shop. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(was going to call it Phylum Chordata the taxonomic class that animals with backbones belong to, but that would be showing off<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> wouldn't it?</span>)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Look - rustic, edgy assembly of tin, copper and curly bits of torch fired enamel and some handmade chain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Can you see it? What have I done? Yep gold! Gleaming Glinting Gold. A delicious plum enamel element, aquamarine frosted recycled glass beads and gold ringie-thingies. Tempted to keep this one.</span></span><br />
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Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-87212834009869101822016-03-05T20:34:00.001+10:002016-03-05T20:34:17.250+10:00Nailed It!<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In my previous post I outlined the harrowing journey to take a tacky-placky hanging half mannequin to my idea of visual perfection.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This was where I got to. . . </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> A grey coating of paint. Then I proceded to sand the daylights out of it in order to banish the dreaded shine.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Better but still not matte enough.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">What I really need is a matte finish paint.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A trip to our local hardware store and a can of blackboard (chalkboard to you) paint later.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So splooged in (yes it is a word) some light wall paint to make it grey and started to mix. That's odd, I thought and mixed harder. Then the slow glowing light of realisation began to dawn in the dark and chaotic recesses of my mind. <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">C</span>hecked the tin, and yep the old bird had added water based paint to a tin of solvent based paint. (Write out 100 times I must check the labels before proceeding).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well, that was that or so I thought. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Then I remembered that squirreled away somewhere was a tin of rust effect paint. The base coat was a mix of very fine ferrous particles. Tore a storage shelf apart and there it was, right behind the rusting liquid right behind the powdered borax, right behind - oh you get the picture!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Stirred the pot thoroughly to mix the particles, and that was another whole to-do, as it had been there so long that I think creatures had died and drifted into the sediment layers and were now fossilised. Applied a couple of coats to the dummy. Next morning it was still tacky, but after an hour or so in the baking Queensland sun it was dry. A little sanding to expose the particles and by Golly Miss Molly think I've nailed it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now if anyone else is think of taking this exciting journey - glue the paper, forget all the other steps and go straight for the rust effect paint, that is unless you want your dummy to go from size 10 to size 14 like mine. In that case follow all the steps<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span></span>Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-38786753661243919842016-03-01T17:01:00.002+10:002016-03-01T17:01:18.506+10:00My Manky Model Makeover<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I really, truely want one of these . . .</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Any one of these would do - <i>really</i>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">But unless I was prepared to take on the national debt, these beauties (if you can find them here) are waaaaaaaaaaaaay outa my budget. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So I got one of these beautifully crafted blow molded plastic flesh coloured half thingies complete with hanger.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">With a bit of judicious draping and selected camera angles it did the job - just.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Problem was, <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">h</span>anging on the wall, wearing the little shirt that did not quite cover the lady parts, the dummy succeeded in offended me so, a date with the 4 inch grinder equipped with a metal cutting blade solved the problem. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Then UV light stepped in and the flesh tone slowly morphed into a <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">billious</span> yellow<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> like</span> terminal liver failure. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I spray painted it off white, which only served to accent the tiny texture of the surface and <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">made it even shinier</span>. This resulted in ages in Photoshop and th<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">at was another whole other to<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">do.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Arrrgh!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">A bit of internet trawling and perhaps covering it in tissue paper appeared to be the answer</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">. No wait, if I was really <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">clever, I <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">could make <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">two forms, one dark and one light, <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Now if I wrapped the form in cling wrap and covered it with t<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">issue paper that could be form 1. I could cover the dummy with tissue paper and that could be form 2.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">S<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">hould work right?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Wrapped the form in cling wrap with bits of duct tape to hold stuff in place. Next started gluing. Didn't have sheets of tissue paper so tried Kleenex<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> which refused to stick to t<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">he cling wrap and inste<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ad clung lovingly to my brush and fingers. Painted all the cling wrap with glue and let it dry. Then tried again with <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Kleenex, same result. Then tried </span>using strips of toilet paper. <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">This turned into a pulpy mess that stuck in places, and bubbled in others resulting in a surface that hinted at developing malignant growths.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">T<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">o</span>re everything off<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> and stuffed cling wrap and pulpy mess, garbage bag<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">s,</span>into the bin<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> and spent ages wash<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ing the stick concoction off my hands.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Clearly some <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">recovery time</span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">sulking under the table sucking my thumb was called for.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">As luck would have it, while rummaging around in the back of the shed, came across a roll of lightw<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">eight wrapping paper that had been there since we moved. The paper had aged to a soft b<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">uff and should be strong enough to take the glue and manipulation.</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Torn strips, watered down PVA glue and <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the first layer is drying in the sun.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Another layer and <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">although better than the white plas<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">tic surfa<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ce it lacked visual guts. (<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">In my mind's eye I envisaged something akin the surface colouration <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">of my battered frypan and baking tray.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Better but not<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> quite right.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> More dark stuff added to the PVA but the surface was too visually busy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Went with a coat of dark grey which is closeish the to background I shoot on.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Sprayed it with matt clear<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">, and my idea of matt is clearly not the same as the manufacturer's idea of matt. Didn't even slow the shine down.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span>Got into it with some fine sandpaper which did improve it. Will work on matting the surface further and see how I like it.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">If <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">I hate it too much there is always a coat of <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">lovely dead matt</span> potters plaster.</span> </span> </span> </span></span></span></span> </span> </span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span></span> </span></span>Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-90164535436068568422015-12-23T18:44:00.001+10:002015-12-23T18:44:59.698+10:00Up and Hanging<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I thought, that since my first exhibition opened last Saturday and it did include jewelry I could bore you spitless with images of my paintings before coming to the jewelry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anticipation - acrylic on canvas </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Saltbush and Sand - soft pastel</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yes there was jewelry, my challenge was how to hang the necklaces in a small group that did not cost a fortune.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I found a <b><a href="http://thebluebottletree.com/necklace-display-wall-hanging/" target="_blank">tutorial</a></b> by Ginger of The Bluebottle Tree, and it immediately sparked a lightbulb moment. My necklaces were more complex than the pendant Ginger displayed, but the materials certainly did the trick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> I cut a half circle from the foam core board and glued it to the front. The necklace is attached with black glass head pins. I used nylon fishing line from the back to a slim piece of timber with attachments to take the gallery hanging system. Worked well looks good and didn't require a 2nd morgtage. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Was going to hang them in a straight row, but ended up hanging at an angle making a much more interesting display.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Oh and I managed a bracelet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Am quite addicted to the rough piercing enamelled copper domes. They have a slightly sinister air that pleases me.</span></span></div>
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Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-87086871558659648042015-12-02T21:32:00.001+10:002015-12-02T21:32:22.463+10:00Is That It?<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Seriously?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Is that all there is?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Fair din<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">kum!<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> y</span>ou mean to tell me that after nearly 3 months all you have you sho<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">w</span> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">is</span> </span></span></span></span><br />
<u><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ONE pair of</span></b> <b>earrings? </b></span></span></span></span></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">OK I admit that they are interesting and I love the enameled focal and clearly <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">the soldering is beautiful</span>, but really only one pair?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Boy, you better have a good excuse.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Well, I think I have a good excuse. . . </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Way back in November last year, in a moment of madness, I agreed to do a joint exhibition at our local <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">g<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">allery<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> in December this year. Paintings and<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> jewelry.</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">No worries, I have heaps of time<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">,</span> it's not for a wh<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ole year.<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> I'll sta<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">rt <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">in <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><strike>June,</strike> <strike>July</strike>, <strike>August</strike>, <strike>September</strike><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">,</span> Oh my God I've only got 2 and a half months<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Doing a series of paintings in my increasingly crowded studio was a challenge, so I started on the front v<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">e</span>randah</span>. Good light, but I was at risk of a <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">nervous breakdown over the worry of spilling paint on the tim<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">ber deck. Then I had a brilliant idea.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The old <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">caravan and glass annexe that we first lived in, was sitting there<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">, bas<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">icaly a junk storage. A few alterations, some tables and storage and da-daaaaaaaaaaaaaa <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Studio 2.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Here I can sharpen my pencils on the floor and s<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">losh</span> paint with gay abandon<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> and walk out the door at the end of the day.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">So to cut a long story short I now have 12 paintings ready to hang. No spoilers will show them next post.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Introducing Kuchi buttons. Cute and just the right size for
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<u><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Good Idea?</span></span></i></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Come in 2 flavours.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Nip the little loops off the back, bung in a coupla holes,
hang stuff and there ya go, and if the junk from the nipped off loop bothers
you, can all be solved with a disc of some metal or such.Done n Dusted!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Now the ones I really liked are the high domed variety.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Nice central detailing on the right hand one and the other, that resemble pert young mammary glands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(Now I've said that can’t look at them without imagining a mature aged lady rocking the buxom bosoms on her lobes - oh wait, that'll be me)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A quick look on the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i><u>Bewdy</u></i> an
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Wanted a really cool and innovative method of attaching the
buttons to the earwires and other elements. Much sketching, contorting of wire,
scrabbling through various boxes for inspiration/easy solutions, in dispersed
with wandering around, thinking, coffee, more thinking, more coffee, pee stops. Woah squirrel brain! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Finally in desperation tried jump rings. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Had I done that
first woulda saved half a day. Then began working the second earring and ran straight into
the Universal Truth of Kuchi Buttons – Variation. And these little buggers have
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The little loops on the back are bigger, smaller, offset,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Jump ring again – <u>how hard can it be?</u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Then I began making jump rings just the right size so that all the elements were more or less equal.<u><br /></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It is now the end of the day and finally nailed them and I consider the name most appropriate, Tears of Bitter Price</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>OH </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>In addition, I can offer you a huge range of graduated sets of hand made jump rings measured
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Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-63917998684964689782015-09-09T18:45:00.003+10:002015-09-09T18:45:53.875+10:00Suffer for your Art<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It all started out hunky-dory.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I bought a rhinestone pendant waaaaay back in the 60's and wore it to death. Eventually the chain broke and the dangles fell off and I put it somewhere safe. Came back to haunt me when I opened another box from the shed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Luuurve the colours. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Tempted to keep this another 40 years </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Another languisher</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">been rattling around in one of the I dunno and mehhhhh trays. Whatever I put with them didn't work so went simple. Actually like the rusty crusty enamel Mary Ann back better than the Queen Ann front.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Then the horrible haunter straight from the crypt. Nooooooooooooo!!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The more I looked at it the more I disliked it, no I <b>hated</b> it! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Blechhhhh nothing works! Whatever was I thinking??</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It all went onto the slippery slope from here.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Dis-saaemble!!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Decided to replace silky beaded abomination with hand made chain. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">After many stops and starts and probably half a roll of wire later had these soldered figure 8 links.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Somewhere in the middle of all this, needing more space, I picked up a pile of stuff, including one of those tape dispenser guns, you know the ones, with the wicked row of serrated teeth. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Gouged said serrated teeth across first knuckle of my left index finger. Was OK to begin, then the copious leaking began. 5 Band Aids and a towel later and it had slowed to oozing drops. With the life threatening haemorrhage under control I plowed on.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">During my enthusiasm for my new found soldering skills I neglected the first law of Torch. Know <u>exactly</u> where the flame is pointing. Result - a burn to go with the finger. Then in making the bail on which to fasten my newly made chain, got careless with the soldering iron and inflicted not one but two burns. (I blamed my huge bandaged finger for being in the way.)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">*Sigh* </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">However, full speed ahead and damn the hot patches.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Much better now, with the handmade chain. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">More gritty and edgy don't ya think?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Then my brain started hurting from all the lateral thinking, and in sympathy with my suffering so, the masochist I am, started something else.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Dove into my miniscule stash and ferreted out 2 druzy slices.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Earrings in a flash I thought, however the holes were side to side, not front to back.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Then my brain really started hurting from all the problem solving and such.</span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">After about 4 do's, 4 undo's and 5 redos was getting close, when this interrupted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Going back nursing my wounds, the odd complaining muscle and sunburn to boot, I finally got the earrings done.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Must have been the delirium from all the pain and suffering, because I decided that I was not done with heat and hammers just yet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Made some earrings ages ago that flew out of my shop so decided to revisit the technique.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is my secret crusty irridescent finish.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Clearly I was deranged from the trauma, pain, tank wrangling and probable heat stroke, because I came up with this. In fact I made 2!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Huge great earring discs! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Pretty unhinged even for me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Another remake a little more restrained and the crusty iridescence came out kinda bubbly instead of crusty.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> But that's OK. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">All came out hunky-dory in the end.</span></span><br />
<br />Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-24920532580260538652015-07-21T11:16:00.000+10:002015-07-29T15:55:42.831+10:00Makies and other Stuff<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">All the house plumbing stuff is finally finished (apart from the 2 new water tanks). Hot running water at last! Oh yes - civilization!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">OK hands up all those who have not read the size properly when buying beads and stuff?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yep I did. Thought these cabochons would be just right for my first attempt at a bezel, but when they arrived they were tiny!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Called for a complete rethink. So did a no solder bezel and captured the cabochon with a backing plate. Sneaky right?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And . . . my first ever custom order! Variation on a theme.</span></span><br />
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Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-17804489992266824072015-05-03T09:02:00.000+10:002015-05-03T09:02:39.797+10:00The Good, the Sad, the Bad and Marsala<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><b>The Good</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">I now have a fully functioning kitchen <u>with</u> cupboard doors. (Hooray no more dust, dead moths/bugs or peek-a-boo geckos)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">The best bit, besides acres of bench space, is a fully functioning gas cooker. Mmmmmmmmmm roasts, home made pizza, cakes that is, until the novelty wears off</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">We lost our beautiful, sweet, Kelpie girl, Gidgee from an autoimmune blood disease. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">The week we lost Gidgee, my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's. This kind of diagnosis is not something anyone wants to hear, but at least now he knows why he has these puzzling symptoms. Has been on meds for just over a month and the difference is noticable. Not up to full dose strength yet, but we are hopeful for a much more significant improvement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In my roaring days I recall drinking Marsala. I remember the cloying sweetness of the wine and I remember this sweetness being tempered by the addition of beer. That's right in the same glass! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I do not recall however, the headache that must have ensued.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ahhhhh the Perfume of Delirium! </span></span>Vintajia Adornmentshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08793014765086434877noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225492706620898360.post-83662508542225323852015-01-28T23:31:00.000+10:002015-01-28T23:31:00.079+10:00Time Slips Away . . .<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">The New Year has come winging in from the Universe, the hunting tip on Time's Arrow, and we all begin the one directional journey into 2015.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">And true to it's nature time has slipped away and it is the end of January. The weather has been hot, hot, hot, peppered with very enthusiastic thunderstorms. Not a lot of creativity happens when the temperature and humidity insidiously sucks any enthusiasm that can be mustered, totally away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">I long for cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Don't do the New Year Resolutions thing - get thin, get fit, eat healthy, give up the booze, blah blah blah. But </span>I do need to upgrade lots of skills for what I wish to accomplish this year. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">This is not so easy when you live buried in the bush as there are NO workshops available close by and to take on line ones is frustrating given the dodgy Optus mobile connection. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Looked into courses further afield hoping to find perhaps a weekend or longer one. The only one available within 4 hours drive runs 1 day a week for 8 weeks. *grumble grumble* So gonna have to do it muhself muhway!(as usual)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"><b>Metal cutting</b>:- have been hacking up stuff with the metal shears and the big-ass Weiss cutter. Quick, effective but not exactly subtle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Now the thing is, have had a jeweler's saw and blades lurking in the drawer for over 12 months and now that I have made my down-n-dirty-quick-assemble-bench-pin system </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">and have a chair that drops low enough, took the bull by the horns and actually sawed a piece of metal <u>without</u> breaking the blade! Well that wasn't so hard, mind you it was only a straight bit, curly bits I feel, will be a kangaroo of a different colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">I will return to the gladiator's arena of battling soldering irons at a later date, after all how hard can it really be?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">My sister bought me this for Christmas. Onya Sis!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Ya gotta love a another woman who understands the need for big arse tools and buys them for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Now I can hold stuff tightly! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">With the new tool and a strip of freshly sawed metal decided to have a go at something I have been thinking about for a while - a ring.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">But wait, I have no ring mandrel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Wandered down to the Man Shed, my go-to place for items I may be able to use came back with my 2 purloined tube sockets</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Roughly a size 8 and 9 ring (Q & S in Aussie ring sizing)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Then transfer socket to the vise to finish forming the ring, however, a proper ring mandrel is what I need, especially as I intend to make specific sized rings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">Simple copper wire with wire wrapped blue magnetite</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;">A soldered 1 cent bronze coin featuring a feather tailed glider. (In life they are about the size of a mouse and we have them here where we live) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: large;"> Finally, some fold forming and Koroit bolder opal chips set in resin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I intend to learn to make my own cold connections. A good adjunct. When soldering fails rivets prevail!</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On a more personal note it was my Birthday in early January. I turned 70.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Not quite sure how I feel about this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On one hand, I am chuffed to have survived all that has been thrown at me and made it this far. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Had I been born in the distant past, long before the cult of youth came into being, I would have been hailed as a Crone, the third stage in my journey as a Triple Crowned Goddess. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Lauded as a repository of wisdom and knowledge, keeper of the mysteries. I would have had a pagan ceremony conducted in my honour with chanting, drumming, sacred smoke, capes of skin, woad, deer antlers and feasting long into the night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">On the other hand, I now have more time behind me than before me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">If you are expecting my jewelry to suddenly morph into tiny and discrete, lavender and lace, matching and what everyone thinks old women should wear </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The rustic, crusty, edgy, shabby, gritty and unhinged-ness will continue unchecked 'cos I ain't ready to roll over yet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Bought the great tutorial from <a href="http://www.pipnmolly.etsy.com/" target="_blank">Pip n Molly </a></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">on soldering tin, which is full of hints, tips and glorious pictures of neatly soldered treasures. So, how hard can it possibly be?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">not a stunning choice at the hardware store. Seem you can have tiny pointy ends, medium pointy ends and great big pointy ends and the irons are either, on at the temperature the manufacturer thinks is near enough, or off. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Chose a cheap 'n' cheerful with a medium pointy end. Got the flux, a couple of rolls of lead free solder and some sal ammoniac.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Read all about soft soldering and maintaining the bits with sal ammoniac and keeping the bit clean. </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And then the questioning of my soldering ability began.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Firstly I totally obliterated the medium pointy tip. Look!</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This opened up a whole other can of worms.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">During one of my numerous attempts to get smooth precise areas of solder, I found that the new tip made the solder run anytime, and anywhere ready or not. Solder ran in random blobs over the tin and the copper and even onto the soldering mat. Argh! I re-fluxed and re-heated and tried pushing and poking it into submission with a bead mandrel when an interesting texture appeared. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Forgetting perfection I added more abuse to the surface with various pointy, round and straight items administered with a large hammer. (Oh the joy of revenge on the recalcitrant solder), and one thing led to another and these appeared.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Alas picked up by well meaning people when it didn't need rescuing. My job now, is to try and teach it everything it's parents would, and return it, hopefully to prosper in the wild. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">These caused me no end of grief and a whole day to photograph. Camera didn't know which bit to focus on. I'm sure it was glad to see the back of em.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">2. Working diligently on an acrylic painting for a September show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">3. Elected as secretary of local art society. Shuffling through past paperwork in progress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">4. Old codger back from eye surgery. He claims his op was worse than my two cos he has 'man pain'. Pffffffffffffft!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Even the new ones refuse to fully charge in the mains charger.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We have found sometimes electronic gizmos don't like the power supplied from or solar power system, digital clocks for example.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Now was this a dying charger or an off grid problem.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Umming and ahhing over a new charger I idly wondered if someone made a solar battery charger? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> . . . OF COURSE THEY DO!</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Now waiting for solar charger which cost waaaaay less than a new mains one.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Shot on my new crusty, dark, battered background. A well used and burnt teflon pan. (Probably using it for a background is a better health choice than cooking with it. Ya think?) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The little tin bezels will be filled with something as soon as my muse gets back from a painting she decided to put into a local art competition.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">My variation on the faceted polymer beads from the tut by Richelle of Shipwreck Dandy. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The latest one was working in pastel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Have dabbled a little in pastel and found the texture of the pastel paper confronting - like drawing on a road surface. The other thing I found frustrating about pastels is colours. Unlike watercolour or acrylic in which you just mix the desired colour, with pastel I had to constantly think how I was going to get the shade I needed.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So introducing "Teddy Renoir".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and his friend "Miss Teddy".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am now the owner of some 'proper' artists pastels and looking forward to working on a larger scale.</span></span><br />
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