Entries from October 2008

October 31, 2008

the golden bowl and a birdbath

A knockout ring from this week’s session of birdbath making. Starting at a size 7 (can go up as necessary) big and wide and glowing. The bowl is almost an inch and a half across and the colors are amazing.  (sold)

And here is one of the birdbaths. I’m still working.

October 31, 2008

Time to sign up to help on Tuesday

if you haven’t already. Call your local field office- this might be your party headquarters, or your candidate’s local group. There are so many things you can do. Lines are going to be long. People are going to be hot, cold, sunburned, frozen, hungry, tired, they are going to need placeholders while they pee, they [...]

October 30, 2008

more pix

Above, a brooch in progress and the re-incarnation of the hollow tree I want to live in, from the great classic book My Side Of The Mountain.

October 30, 2008

playing with a branch

I made a neat little silver branch by wrapping metal clay around a piece of 12g fine silver wire, texturing it, firing it, and then wrapping the finished branch in a vine of 14g wire, fusing it to the branch, balling the ends of the vine, hammering them flat, and drilling holes.
Above, it’s modelling Amy [...]

October 30, 2008

Thursday.

I’m now counting days off in hours, just moving through time, trying to do what I’m supposed to be doing. Moving the remainder of my money, pretty much everything I own, to an account that will be used to pay the massive legal and tax bills associated with my mother’s estate, the last truly awful [...]

October 29, 2008

Chris Matthews has something to say.

Watch! He’s talking about Barack’s paid 30 minutes tonight, and I really like what he’s trying say to people who are having problems in their heart with racism. It comes in at about the 3 and a half minute mark. He’s a bit ham-handed, because he’s Chris Matthews, but it was a true reaction, moments [...]

October 29, 2008

Tonight

Ah, tonight. One great thing about tonight is that today will be over.
Not that today hasn’t been beautiful, because it has. It’s a clear, soft, mellow day, everyone has their doors and windows open. It’s an easy day outside, I can hear birds chirping everywhere, hear the faint murmur of the U of A campus [...]

October 29, 2008

The day has begun

It’s still only the eight o’clock hour, and there is already so much going on. If I can make it through this week intact and functioning I’ll be well pleased. Not since I was a child have I felt time move so slowly, and felt more powerless to affect the unfolding of events. It’s a [...]

October 28, 2008

Wingy

The wings move, of course, everything moves.

October 28, 2008

The antidote to fear is hope

It sure looked cold in Philly last night when they called the ball game in the middle of the 6th. It had been raining for hours, and it was 39 degrees. Players were sliding in the mud, the pitchers couldn’t keep their hands warm. 
The weather didn’t get a lot better overnight, but still, 9,000 people [...]