Sunday satisfaction

in which our plucky heroine has a day of chores, online visiting and a tiny adventure...

Aside from making a start on the ever replenished Mt Dishmore and Mt Washmore, choosing to spend time indulging in creativity, and my always grateful for Sunday video visiting, there was a early morning transit trip to a new location: "Travel Portland" as they were one of the few locations mentioned online as having actual paper map pamphlets available for the Follow The Crows art installaion. Don't know if I will collect the whole set, as it were, but it will be fun to see all the various artist painted iterations...

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~ day 5 of 7in7 earring challenge ~

Dried painted poppy pods, stacked atop a small turquoise donut bead and a vintage whiteheart. (Oops, looking closely at the photo there are spots that need a bit more paint) They are really lightweight for their size. My inspiration was this 2022 photo by Johanna from Finland of poppy pods made into 1:12  scale "pottery"...

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None of us live forever... goodbye to John Crowley, writer par excellence... (may the four winds blow you safely home...)

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I've been trying and trying to find some interesting way to use the small bright red dyed coral cube beads that came to me as part of the previous advent swap, but keep finding their angular "cubeness" difficult. Tonight, Vesta's comment during craft-n-chat about lobster claw clasps immediately caused me to jump to using these beads to make decorative stitch markers for my textile art friends. 

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August SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	2 Talenti shelves	Talenti shelf up	greenwaste bin
2	acorncap earrings	2nd pot lid rack	recycle bin
3	teaspoon earrings	-	-
4	glass button earrings	-	-
5	poppy pod earrings	-	-
6	x	x	x
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x

today's gratitudes -
- venturing downtown to get a hardcopy pamphlet/map for Follow the Crows
- air clean enough to dry laundry outside on the line
- the clothespins Acantha gave me are so good
- walked almost three miles today
- listening to Eva read "The Cat That Walked By Himself" 

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assorted Pelican regalia

in which our plucky heroine collects together images of some of the Pelican medallions I've made over the years...

for my non-SCA friends, these pendants and brooches are regalia (symbolic jewelry) worn by folks who have received an honor for ongoing service to the SCA organisation at a highly significant level.

one of the smallest enamels


very small Norse filigree style


large Pelican in a textured nest


Pel-Laurel pearl border


Norse style enamel Pelican


Pel-Laurel with diapered border


triple Peerage collaborative medallion


Large lozenge Pel-Laurel


Black Pelican 


basic Pelican

 
the "bad" Pelican


Birka style silver filigree


Celtic style Pelican

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recombinant refurbishment

in which our plucky heroine takes time to play...

Today decided to refurbish and reconfigure two pairs of earrings into one. Back in 2013 dear Ariadne gave me these lampwork beads she made, knowing that I enjoy wearing grey and black together. I turned them into earrings of course, but the floss tassel finial wasn't quite right.

Even earlier, sometime back in the 90's at OCF, I acquired some black porcelain horse charm earrings... they were quite heavy, so in 2009, some "time with the wet grinder thinned them to no more than 3mm thick; while some of the whimsical sculptured detail was lost, they are now light enough for comfort"... A vintage whiteheart bead and tiny sky blue enamel coordinated with my (OCF trading circle) turquoise beads, but still for some reason they were rarely worn.

I'd been hunting through my bucket of beads recently looking for frog materials, and cogitating for quite some time prior about what might combine well with the Ariadne lampwork beads, when my black horse earrings caught my eye. Aha! and it was the work of a few minutes to deconstruct them. As a way to further embellish the horses I decided to add a few spots to each in decorative triangles, carefully grinding away with the smallest round diamond burr in my little box from Harbor Freight. Once they dried (always grind under water for safety) the tiny dots were subtle, but visible. Wirework combined beads and horses into a pleasing pair of new earrings! Photos tomorrow when it is daylight...

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~ 1⅜" x ⅞" ~

Between other errands downtown, stopped off at Clay Commons yesterday afternoon and could not resist bringing home this exquisite hand painted ceramic vessel. An addition to the tinyworld art gallery.

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Excellent news about the knitting pattern quest... Cocoknits very generously sent me a PDF copy of the Oakleaf Family Tree pattern complete with all the charts. Huzzah and vast gratitude!

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Initially my thought was that the carbon monoxide alarm needed a new battery, but when replacing that made no difference at all to the chirping beeps, I thought to read the VERY small print on the back of the battery door... Oh, five chirps in a row means "end of life" (not for the humans) but the gizmo itself. So off to the hardware store this morning. I forgot to bring my monthly discount flier, but asked the cashier if it was possible to look up online, and so she tried, but that didn't work. When I said, "well then, I guess I will come back again tomorrow instead" she generously offered me a $5 off coupon, which being the same as the flyer coupons was just as good!!  Now all I need to do is decide where to install it; the old one plugged into the wall, but this one does not. The internets say 12" below ceiling in the hall outside bedrooms, but not too near a bathroom, or air vents, which makes me think most people have bigger houses than Acorn Cottage. 

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"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."

~ e. l. konigsburg

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July SMART goals (x=extra)

#	THINGS MADE	THINGS FIXED	THINGS GONE
1	-	earrings recombined	greenwaste bin
2	-	C O alarm	-
3	-	-	-
4	-	-	-
5	-	-	-
6	x	x	x
7	x	x	x
8	x	x	x
9	x	x	x

today's gratitudes -
- Cocoknits sent me the knitting pattern I've been seeking
- mango slaw (modified from smitten kitchen)
- kindly cashier at Ace Hardware
- the man at the hardware store wearing silver and black dotted knee socks with black bike shorts and a silver brocade jacket... there is whimsy in the world!

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