tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62335126936200988362024-03-13T15:32:54.894-07:00Art-Life-RustTerri Coronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09493985728804810210noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233512693620098836.post-45760124161122191292019-12-18T14:30:00.000-08:002019-12-18T14:30:28.748-08:00Merry Christmas!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As usual I have no art to show - I should change the name of this blog to Life-Rust! I had foot surgery late in November, and thought I'd get a bunch of art done since I'd be off work unable to do much else - but then it turned out I had to keep my foot elevated above my heart. I quickly realized that was going to kill my back and accepted being a couch potato. I did manage to decorate for Christmas before my surgery, so at least I was able to enjoy it while I was down. </div>
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I realized as I was packing away Christmas last year that I had developed quite a vintage Christmas tree collection (all but a couple are vintage, anyway), and I thought maybe I should display them all together, so I did that this year, which I've enjoyed. I like my little Reindeer herd as well.</div>
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This was my view much of the time that I was recovering...</div>
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Between having my Mom with me to keep me company and spoil me, and having my puppy snuggling on me most of the time, I have to say it was a pretty pleasant recovery, considering! I mean what's a little pain compared to that!</div>
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Here's hoping all of you have a wonderful and safe Christmas!</div>
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Terri Coronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09493985728804810210noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233512693620098836.post-76221951913525418492019-10-30T11:46:00.000-07:002019-11-18T16:39:57.249-08:00Catching Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, I've done some traveling, and I've been working a lot and raising a puppy, but no art. I hope to remedy that soon though!</div>
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Here's the guy who's pushed art right out of my life, temporarily anyway. This is him camping at Big Sur in late summer.</div>
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This is him a couple of weeks ago. Look at how that nose has grown!!</div>
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Look at this precious little art journal that my friend Diana from <a href="https://velvetmothstudio.blogspot.com/">Velvet Moth Studio</a> sent to me! Everything she does is exquisitely detailed, from the fabric she'll have made herself, to all the hand stitching and beading.</div>
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And look at the binding! It involves some sort of complicated folding, and you can remove and replace pages just by folding back the tabs. So clever, and as I told her, maybe I'll actually get myself to use it since I can always replace a page I hate! For some much better, and detailed, pictures and info, see this <a href="https://velvetmothstudio.blogspot.com/2019/11/rust-printing-and-book-making.html">link</a> to her post about it. She's SUCH a better photographer than I.</div>
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My Mom and I flew back East to Massachusetts to visit my cousin and her wife. I'd never been back there before, and it was really amazing. We drove around Vermont leaf peeping as they call it, and we went to Cape Code, visited Provincetown, and in spite of a hurricane and delays, made it to Nantucket on the ferry. Loved the whaling museum there, loved everything really.<br />
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I had some fun decorating my back patio for Fall. I see it right out my kitchen window, so I love having it decorated.</div>
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I'll spare you from pics of the Halloween explosion inside my house, I've done that enough times, but here are a couple of shots from my Halloween crazy neighborhood. I can never get good pictures of everything lit up at night that reflect how magical it is.<br />
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These guys made a peeing skeleton fountain.<br />
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This is a spooky bar to sidle up to for a drink...</div>
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Our neighborhood is so crazy on Halloween, people drive their kids into the neighborhood til there's nowhere to park. So they've started doing a party the Saturday before Halloween just for the neighborhood, they block off the streets, there's a band, tables set up and more food and drink than you would think possible. I love people with that much spirit, not to mention a warehouse somewhere that they can store everything in!</div>
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Well, I'm a week and a half into new puppy ownership, and I'm surviving! He's so precious, that it makes the lack of sleep and constant monitoring well worth it. Thank goodness there's 2 of us though! And he's already growing so fast.</div>
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He loves his food!!</div>
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I did get a few things done in my fabric art journal before his arrival, not even a thought of anything since though!</div>
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This one I taped off the plastered page then rubbed charcoal all over it. Then I just erased, going back in after with a charcoal pencil to highlight some details. I really enjoyed it.</div>
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Meet Maurice (I think that's his name, I'm not 100% committed yet). We got to pick him out Sunday, but we don't get to bring him home for a couple more weeks. I keep telling myself to just enjoy the peace and quiet while I have the chance!</div>
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In the meantime, I've been doing some work in my fabric journal, mostly inspired by an online class I took from Rebecca Sower. Trying to loosen up as always.</div>
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Terri Coronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09493985728804810210noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233512693620098836.post-26706888448263522772019-06-25T17:01:00.000-07:002019-06-25T17:01:54.925-07:00Dabbling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We went camping recently, to a vintage trailer rally. It was a small one, near Point Reyes with such lovely people, we enjoyed it thoroughly. Very low key, lots of good food and drink. Mario laid on the ground to try to capture the gorgeous sky with the full moon and our lit up trailer, and I love how it turned out.</div>
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I recently finished making a new fabric journal. I had actually made the inside of it a long time ago (It took me MUCH longer than anticipated to actually complete the first one I made). But I just made the cover for it and I want to start working in it now. This one was bound differently than the first one I made. </div>
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And I even got one page done inside it!</div>
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This was me playing around, trying to be loose and playful. It doesn't come easy for me.<br />
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And last but not least, one of these cuties below is going to be ours in a little over a month. </div>
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We lost our basset hound Claymore a couple years ago, and we're finally feeling ready for another one. I'm very excited, but nervous too. Am I up to a puppy again? We'll find out!</div>
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I've been working like crazy, but have tried to make myself take a little time for art here and there, and have actually managed to do it, for a change. It's a good stress reliever once I get going!<br />
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This one below I have to confess that I did while spending most of a Sunday on the couch watching the entire 7th season of Game of Thrones, in preparation for the first episode of Season 8 (finally!)<br />
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My boy Claymore, from our favorite picture of him, playing around with scribble sketching.</div>
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I did this while looking at a real star fish, and staring at the detail for as long as I had to for the white pen work gave me a true appreciation for the miracle that nature is.</div>
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I'm having surgery next week (sinus), so I wanted to finally get a post done before that. The good news is that my Mom is coming to be with me and I'll be off work, so totally worth it!!</div>
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I've been trying to develop an art habit again, just playing around and putting no pressure on myself. Trying to remind myself that I still know how to do some of this stuff, and that I actually enjoy it! When I'm not feeling inspired, or my job sucks too much out of me, approaching my studio starts feeling like a guilty chore, which is ridiculous. Once I actually start doing something I lose myself in it and enjoy it. It's the STARTING that is often so hard for me. </div>
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The piece below is done on wood covered in plaster.</div>
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I sort of took a scribble art online class (by this I mean I signed up for it and watched a couple of the videos, which is about as long as my attention span ever lasts), in an attempt to loosen myself up, which is hard for me. But once I relax into doing it, after the first horrifying scribbles that I'm sure will have entirely ruined the piece already, I find it fun.<br />
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I filled my lantern with Shiny Brites this year, I love it so much at night when it's lit. Not sure how I didn't think about doing this before now!</div>
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I also filled an old tool chest with them, and it also glows wonderfully in the evening with the little lights all reflecting. I saw something recently where someone had made ornament holders out of little old oil cans, so I immediately had to try it, as I have a few. I love how it lets me highlight my vintage bells.</div>
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My cocoa station moved and expanded this year.</div>
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A festive scene in my village</div>
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A corner of my kitchen. The snowman usually hangs outside as he's a lantern, but I'm enjoying him inside this year.</div>
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His name is Roosevelt and he's sporting a sexy gold tooth. We were pretty tempted - if only our house were bigger.</div>
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I love transforming my house at this time of year - I think I love it even more than Christmas, just because the time of year itself is such a huge relief at the end of a hot summer, and this year particularly when my family not far away were repeatedly threatened with evacuation (and once, actually evacuated) due to fires from record-breaking heat. </div>
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My friend Val made me these felted wool gourd guys - aren't they fantastic? I was so excited to get them out this year for the first time. I should have taken a picture of the back of the green one too - he's got the cutest butt crack!</div>
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My husband surprised me with this transformation, below. This guy normally has a lovely face and is carrying a crusade flag (the piece is titled "Personal Crusade"), so he put a black hood over his face and made an ax for him - I couldn't figure out what on earth he was doing that he needed to borrow red paint. He's pretty proud, and deservedly so!</div>
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I love the old beat up wind-up lion below, but he's in such bad shape that I think he's only appropriate for Halloween!</div>
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I thought I'd forgotten how. To make a long story short, I wasn't feeling well for many months, I just focused on making it through work, then came home and laid on the couch. Even when I started feeling better, I'd somehow lost the habit and the confidence to go into my studio and create. And when I thought about it, I had no idea what I would even want to create, where to begin. I just kept putting it off. </div>
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But my sister, who loves the ocean so much, and her husband recently got a used motor home so that they can go camping at the ocean, and I wanted to make her a "trailer-warming" gift for it, so I finally had the motivation I needed to make something. And you know what, I really enjoyed it. All it took was deciding to make something, and just starting. Hopefully I'll start creating more, although I do have some very busy weekends ahead, so I'm not quite sure when.</div>
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We did do some camping this summer in the canned ham (otherwise known as Lil Stella), the longest being a week at Big Sur. Such a gorgeous area of the California coast. </div>
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Okay, now I'm off to decorate for Halloween, because Hallelujah, it's Fall! It's still warm right now, but Fall is definitely in the air, and there's no time of year I love more...</div>
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I just saw that my last post was Nov. 3rd, and now it's a week until Christmas. Not sure how that happened. Well, I kind of do. Nov. 17th was the Christmas vintage show I'd been working on, and preparing for that was consuming all my spare time, not to mention my mental energy. I just don't do them often enough to be casual about them. Here are some pics I took before the show started and the chaos began!</div>
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It went well, but what a relief to have it over with! </div>
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After that my focus turned to waiting for, and then being in San Francisco for a scary surgery my sister had to have. I'm so grateful that it went well, we couldn't have received a better Christmas present. It's so good to be home again, and it looks like my sister will be home in time for Christmas as well, and I couldn't be more grateful. Things like this certainly put things in perspective, even more so at this time of year.</div>
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I hope you all have a happy and healthy Christmas with your loved ones!</div>
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Nothing like a deadline to ramp up the Studio time! It would be nice if I could maintain a regular studio habit rather than my long periods of drought followed by a deluge of sudden productivity. But having a reason to create, a goal to get my butt in gear seems to make the difference for me. </div>
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I had the hardest time getting a decent picture of this, it's kind of a shadow box, with little doors that open and close over the front glass. I've had it for a few years, it was a gift and I was always saving it for something special. I've also been hoarding the little sheep, they're very old and wonderful, but when I experimentally put them in there I suddenly saw a manger scene, or creche, and there was no going back.</div>
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I've also been making jewelry to try and sell at the upcoming show. </div>
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This one below is a mosaic made from the stamp on the back of a plate like the one shown with it. Sometimes I like the back of old dishes better than the front.</div>
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This one is kind of hard to see but there's an old St. Nick image there.</div>
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We went camping last weekend, and I actually used my little art kit I made to keep in the trailer, for the first time. I thought ahead and brought a copy of an old French document that I have (I briefly considered using the original, but just couldn't do it), and spent hours drawing and painting and shading. It was very relaxing.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"> I bore out an old little wood buoy for this one (well, in all honesty I had my husband do it).</span></div>
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Fall is in the air - my favorite time of year. And as soon as I sense it, cooler mornings, a falling leaf or two, I'm ready to decorate for Halloween. So yes, my house is all decked out inside, and I had a spot where I wanted something Halloweeny to hang, so I decided to make something.<br />
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The two pieces are attached to make one long piece. I had a lot of fun putting these together, and even got out my encaustic wax equipment - I forgot how much I love transforming things with wax.</div>
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My Mom bought me this crow (pre-hardware) with something like this in mind for me to sort of steampunk him up. She'd seen one done and knew I had enough of a collection of bits and bobs to give it a go. My studio was a mess after going through everything trying to find just the right pieces, not to mention unearthing my hot glue gun, but he was worth it.</div>
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This is a much smaller version of a film cannister mailing container like the one from my last post, this time it's the front side. I loved how it's mailing address label looks like a frame.</div>
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I've been playing some more with image transfers of my previous work. This one is done on a piece of birch bark, and then glued into an old grater.</div>
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Another image transfer, on this old clipboard I found.</div>
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And last but not least, my new studio desk lamp. I've been desperately in need of one, but just couldn't seem to pull the trigger on any new ones I'd seen. Then when I saw this one I knew what I'd been waiting for. Old, full of character, completely positionable with a really small footprint, incredibly heavy so it won't knock over - it's perfect! Well, as long as I don't accidentally touch the metal shade when it's on, surface of the sun is about what I'd compare it to...</div>
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Remember how I used to actually create art? The only studio time I've spent for quite a while is for jewelry, and not much of that. And of course the grand distraction of a canned ham, Miss Lil Stella, didn't help. But I spent most of last weekend in the studio (too hot to go outside, that helped). I gave myself a motivational kick in the butt by committing to participate in a Vintage show in November called Noel that I did a few years ago. I can sell vintage items, on their own or re-purposed, and vintage art. </div>
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The piece above is the back half of an old studio reel box. I've had it for a long time, but it had never occurred to me until now that I can do something with the bottom and the top separately, that I didn't have to keep them together. I've never gotten myself to do anything with the top because it's covered in wonderful old stickers and stamps from being mailed around so I haven't had the heart to cover them with anything. These are image transfers from copies of my originals, which I then repainted with the white glossy paint. I had a lot of fun with these.</div>
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The other items I finished I'm really excited about. I had found a couple of old metal receipt pad holders, I think that's what they are anyway. I didn't know what I was going to do with them, but I just liked them. Once I finally figured out how to open them up (leverage and some muscle!) I immediately thought refillable art journals! </div>
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I did an image transfer on the front and back of this one as the metal was really pitted, and added the rusty trim. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to sell this one.</div>
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I filled it with really beautiful watercolor paper that I tore into pieces from a large sheet.</div>
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Earlier in August we took Lil Stella camping to Santa Cruz for 4 days. Here she is in action.</div>
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This is the famous tree at Big Sur, I've probably posted a picture of this before.</div>
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Hubby and Guinness at one of our favorite little restaurants in Bodega Bay.</div>
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I took some inside shots after we got back, these'll be the last I subject you to!</div>
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Below is the French piece that was my color inspiration for the whole project.</div>
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My friend Val just made me some pillows for the trailer for my birthday, aren't they gorgeous? The canvas fabric is made from the original hammocks that were used for she and her brother to sleep on when they were little. One was over the main bed and one over the table and they slid in and out. The fabric has aged wonderfully into a creamy yellow.</div>
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However Mario felt strongly that he would rather NOT have it stenciled, and we liked it so much better after it was just re-stained that I gave up that fight.</div>
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This one has a favorite picture of my Claymore, it's somehow comforting to wear him around my neck. I had done something to the picture in Photoshop called posterizing, and I loved how it came out.</div>
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This one I made for my friend Val for HER birthday (we like to make each other gifts), from a copy of a painting I had made for her of her beloved dog that she had lost. I've made one of these for my Mom as well, I seem to be specializing in lost pet memorial necklaces lately. <br />
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Well, almost 6 weeks later, we got her back and it was worth the wait. They did such great work, made us a custom rock guard and some other things that were really above and beyond. Her name is Lil Stella, which is my two Grandmothers names, both of whom gave me such wonderful camping memories growing up. I thought I'd share a few pictures from my camping youth in dedication to them.</div>
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This is Grandma Stella fishing, which she loved so much (once my Grandpa managed to talk her into trying it!). We usually camped at Eagle Lake, which has amazing trout. My younger brother and sister and I are below in our tent there.</div>
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This is my Grandma Lil, with me and my sister Michelle in front of the Prowler. So many happy memories camping all over California in that 5th Wheel with she and our Grandpa.</div>
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I have almost no art to show for myself, although I did complete one necklace, below, and started more this past weekend. I used to make mosaics, and still have tubs of broken vintage dishes, and I had the idea to do a tiny mosaic inside of a bezel. </div>
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And lastly, I'd been very focused on caring for our 11 year old Basset Hound Claymore, who most of you have seen before in prior posts. He'd been rapidly declining for a while and we lost him a couple of weeks ago. I don't need to say more about how hard it's been, any of you dog lovers out there understand, but I wanted to post a last picture of my precious boy, doing one of his favorite things.</div>
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We signed up for a vintage trailer rally months ago (you have to sign up right away to even get into them) and we assumed we'd be all done by then. Well, unforeseen issues and a very wet winter meant that up until the last minute we weren't even sure we'd be able to pull her, much less have her completely done. But we'd paid our money and weren't getting it back, and I'm a stubborn girl, so we went. We had the rock guard in front taped down so it wouldn't rattle around, and there are bungee cords around the propane tank, and clearly she needs a paint job - hubby said we looked distinctly Beverley Hillbillies, but I was still excited to actually be camping in her (in spite of the fact that we hooked the water up and it began pouring out from under the sink - no running water for us!)</div>
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A Vintage Trailer Rally is essentially a bunch of vintage trailer owners camping together, touring each other's trailers, and having events like potlucks, and in our case a Mexican street party with a Mariachi band, Food Trucks and a Pinata making contest. Everyone was SO nice, and so happy to offer info, and knowledge and talk about their trailers.</div>
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This event took place near Bodega Bay, so we spent one day at the beach.</div>
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It's been a productive couple of weekends on the Canned Ham front, at least in terms of work on the inside. Electrical issues have prevented us from verifying we can actually pull it yet, however! But - back to what I CAN control... Last weekend curtains were finished and hung, and the new faucet installed. </div>
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The curtains are all from old grain sacks, except the one over the sink, as it's too long, so I used the upholstery fabric there. The faucet - you wouldn't believe how exciting to have that installed! The old one was a little nasty pitted thing that no longer turned, but we weren't sure we were going to be able to replace it. I had hopefully bought a replacement I loved, but was afraid I was dreaming. My poor hubby spent most of a weekend trying to remove the old one (crusted into place for more than 50 years) - by having to awkwardly reach underneath and around the sink where he couldn't see what he was doing, with his head shoved at a crazy angle against the counter. After multiple trips to Home Depot for different kinds of wrenches and lots of frustration, he finally got it off. Then we had to figure out how to make the new one work. When it was finally installed and water came out of it, I felt like crying with joy.</div>
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All that over this little thing, but I've never loved a faucet so much! This last weekend, while my poor husband spent hours trying to figure out our electrical issue, I installed a new floor. Here's the original- pitted, cracked hideous old linoleum.</div>
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And here's the after. Not traditional for a vintage trailer, for sure, but then again that ship sailed long ago! I love it, and it should hold up really well against dog nails etc.</div>
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During a rain break I was trying to get my studio a little organized, it was like a jewelry supply bomb went off in there. I started thinking that it'd be nice to have a travel art kit to keep in the trailer, and I couldn't resist making it one with some character, as god knows I've got the supplies sitting around. I used the container from an old spice tin set - I just took out the little individual tins that I keep buttons and things in. </div>
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An old watercolor tin and a couple of old Lucky Strike cigarette tins fit perfectly.</div>
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I think it was 2 posts ago that I said I was finally getting my seats from the trailer back from the upholsterer that day. Then it was going to be the next day. And then I couldn't get hold of him for over 3 WEEKS! He's been going through a lot of drama so at first I wasn't too worried, but then when he continued not returning calls I really started wondering if I'd ever see my seats again. I finally tracked down his home address and left a note on his door. He called the next day and what a relief that was. Another week of telling me every day that I'd get them the next day, he finally delivered them to my house last Friday. What a relief, and he did such a good job too, I gotta say I was worried the right fabric would even be on them at that point!</div>
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Below is what they looked like before - I kept them the same style, with the combination of leather and fabric, but I can honestly say I don't miss that orange and brown!</div>
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We also replaced the paneling next to the seats in front (under the big window in the top picture) with one of the aluminum panels we replaced from the top of the trailer. We turned it around and used the back of it and I really like how it turned out.</div>
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From that same piece of old aluminum I had Mario cut out the original faded Aloha logo. That's the brand of this trailer - the company was originally located in Aloha Oregon. I decided to frame it along with the original receipt for the trailer from 1962 and a picture of my friend Val and her brother in front of the trailer and their old car when they were little - such a precious picture. I covered the frame in leftover wood from the inside paneling I did and will hang it in there. I just love having this history of our trailer.</div>
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I finally have something exciting to show you on the trailer! One of the first things I knew I wanted to do was put reclaimed wood on at least part of the walls. I've had the wood for months and it's the part of the design that I've been most excited about doing - and it's done! </div>
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We still need to put up trim at the top, but aside from that this part of the project is done - what a good feeling to make progress that is actually visually exciting. As good as it felt to get the roof done, there was never this kind of moment where you step back and say "WHAT a difference". Here's a "before" picture.</div>
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This is the other side. I love these old porcelain lights we got on our trip to Murphy's last Fall - something else I've been really excited about having installed, and I just love them against the wood.<br />
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Surfacing, as in from under water. We've been in a terrible drought here for years, until this winter when it's seems like we've done all our catching up from those years within a couple of months. And it seems as though every weekend has been rainy - something I've absolutely craved in recent years and have still loved this year except that it meant that we made no progress on the trailer for months. But, like a miracle, the rain stopped last Friday and gave us a sunny weekend, and canned ham now has a completely installed roof!</div>
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If you look close you can see that shiny white aluminum on the front as it comes down to meet the window - yes, the window, not the tarp that covered that hole since last September! It's not much progress to show you in a picture, but it felt like we were never going to get to this point, so it does feel good. Now we can start working on the inside together, which will be much more satisfying. </div>
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On the creative front, in spite of always telling myself I'd never give in to the temptation to start making jewelry, I've gone and done it. Over the years I've made a few pieces, because I'd run across something that inspired me to make a piece of jewelry from it, but it's only been a few. But then I saw a metalsmithing class Stephanie Lee was offering on Jeanne Oliver's ning site, and couldn't resist. So I've been playing with sheet metal and solder and wire and pipe and have been really enjoying it. Here's a few things I've made.</div>
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This is the first piece I made, a bracelet for my niece's birthday. All hand formed and soldered - labor intensive but fun, and amazingly took almost the whole 5 feet of sterling silver wire that I'd bought.</div>
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My first successful bezel made with cut copper pipe, sheet metal and a somewhat tricky soldering technique. I only ruined two before I managed this one, so not too bad, and I had fun making it into a necklace.</div>
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A couple of larger bezels, the one on the left is a little heavy as the gear inside the resin was already heavy on it's own. But it fit so perfectly...<br />
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A hand-formed brass chain. A good couch project while watching TV, although it was a little rough on the fingers.</div>
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This is a birthday present for my sister. The green beads are crocheted, a technique I also really enjoyed. Her birthday is this weekend, so she's forbidden to look at my blog until next week (I'll know if you look Michelle!)</div>
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I have always been a Winnie the Pooh girl, for as long as I can remember. A.A. Milne Winnie the Pooh, not so much the Disneyfied version. The sweetness and innocence, the absolute distillation of childhood. I used to be a bit of a collector, and many years ago, my Mom found a wonderful, very old early version of a Winnie the Pooh. It was expensive and I know she spent more than she should have been spending on it, but she was so proud to give it to me and it was precious to me. </div>
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Fast forward a year or so, and I'm walking into my living room and notice a sea of some kind of stuffing all over my living room. As I get closer I realize with dawning horror that it's my Pooh, based on little pieces of fabric and a decapitated head. My Corgi is lucky he survived it without being out on the street. I was DEVASTATED, I so clearly remember being on my hands and knees picking up all the bits, just sobbing, thinking about how he had survived and been loved by different children for decades until he ended up with me, and how could I ever tell my Mom? It took me months...</div>
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Pooh was put in a bag and over the years my friend and I talked about sewing him a new body, but it never happened, I knew I wouldn't be happy with a Frankenstein Pooh. But then, before Christmas my friend and I were shopping in a wonderful vintage store in Roseville called Tumbleweed & Co, and I happened to see this guy.</div>
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An admittedly strange looking fellow, but what struck me was how similar his body was to my Pooh, and I suddenly had the idea of putting my Pooh head on this body. So I got him home and realized that his head was held on with about 6 hand stitches - I was not the first to have this idea! So I found my bag of Pooh and this is what it looked like.</div>
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Their arms are <b>exactly </b>the same, clearly they were made around the same time. The new body's legs and feet are a little bigger, but close enough for me. So after some painting and stitching, after almost 20 years I have my Pooh back. He may be sporting corduroys now, but fashions do change!</div>
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I have no art to show for myself (I'm not sure I should be considering this an art blog anymore!) but I wanted to share a couple of images in keeping with the Christmas season, and a few canned ham progress pics. The Santa and Reindeer above in the window of my house is a new, very old find, that I was really excited about. I'm guessing it's from the 30's or 40's, and came in it's original box with it's crumbling, yellowed instructions. It's meant to be on a lawn, but there was no way we were risking it out there, so my husband had the idea of hanging it in the window and creating "clouds" to cover the plastic wedges that are supposed to go into the lawn. I just love it.<br />
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The Santa above was a recent gift from a friend - she had been in a thrift store and the owner had acquired a box she was disappointed to find was just full of "old Christmas things" and was selling them for next to nothing - my friend paid $1 for this cutie!</div>
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As far as the trailer, we've been working on it weather permitting - so not much. It seems the rain has been waiting for weekends lately - normally I'd love nothing more than a rainy weekend, but now it's just frustrating! I've been getting some painting done though, all that wood is slowly disappearing and it's starting to look lighter and brighter in there. </div>
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We recently spent a weekend with two other couples at an amazing place in Murphy's - an old gold-mining town in the foothills of Northern California. They have a Day of the Dead festival every year and we decided to go and check it out. It's a beautiful part of the state, especially at this time of year, with lots of wineries and little shops. Unfortunately my husband was taking the pics of the actual festival, but I took pics of the property we were staying on, so I thought I'd share a few of them.</div>
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This charming little building is used partly as an art studio. She allows artists to set up on her property for plein air painting workshops. Occasionally we'd come upon individuals unexpectedly as they were painting.</div>
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This was our own Day of the Dead altar, an homage to our departed loved ones. The town was full of them - one business had one set for Prince, and was blasting his music.</div>
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As far as the trailer, we've been making steady progress, although most of it not photo worthy as it's on the roof. Next weekend is our drop-dead time for having the top on and it being all water tight, as once the Holidays come things will just be too crazy. But I've been finding time to do some painting inside, and have new upholstery in the works.</div>
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We finally through brute force and a screwdriver wrested the clock from the wall, and of course there's a massive hole behind it. I shall be getting a new clock! Oh, and as you may notice, you can no longer see sky through the ceiling!</div>
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This is one of the drawers of the lower kitchen area, in progress.</div>
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Slowly but surely....</div>
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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, my American friends, as I doubt I'll have a chance to post again before then. Can you believe it's that time already?</div>
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