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I didn't take it, but isn't it grand?
As usual, click the picture to see the photostream. In this case, a photodocumentry of the Strolling of the Heifers 2009, by someone who calls herself Storm. Leave nice messages for her!
enormously tall
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Aerin on stilts at a recent fundraiser. The one with the cow colored sheep.
June 3
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Actually I have 48 of them cut out. After sketching a page of snakes, I decided to free hand the cutting. Mostly because I am too lazy to trace all those snakes, and partly because I like drawing with scissors.
The 100 snakes comes from a friend exclaiming over something unusual happening, and asking "What next? A hundred tiny green snakes falling from the cupboards singing the Hallelujah Chorus?" I loved the image of a hundred tiny green snakes, so here I am, cutting them out to stick onto red backgrounds. Making them all fit (25 in each 10" square) is going to be tricky. I think they will be interlaced. The trick then is to keep it form looking like one of those fornicating bunnies mugs (completely Not Safe For Work, except that I used to have one at work, so what can I really tell you?).
June 2
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I am charmed by the looseness of them, how much they look like rope carelessly dropped or coiled. I made a background yesterday, and I have a lot of green fabric ready to cut out little green snakes, but I wanted to get a better feel for them before I started that part.
Alice wanted to know if I was making fabric snakes or clay snakes. I might do this again with fimo snakes…. it has appeal, for sure.
May 28
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I had fun with coffee stirrers last Thursday, and finally made the shape which I was thinking off all through March, of a nine patch with edges. I like this view of it particularly, although the following is a more accurate rendering. Or whatever.
More May 28
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rust and wood
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that one’s just cute – this is artistic
cow colored sheep
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
truly, it is a lamb, but my brain went bzzzzt when I saw it
archery award family camp
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whew –
Sat: family camp, including canoeing, kayaking, a hike, a nap and a herd of 10/11 year old girls (and Noah), and the campfire where one child sang a Bon Jovi song with his foot behind his head, winning the prize for most surreal since two years ago when another pair of children sang the Darth Vader Cheese Song (indescribable)
Sun: more family camp, including High Ropes (yikes! Wheee!) and a painted turtle laying eggs, another nap, the Archery Prize (see photo) and Aerin and I sadly left for home so that she could march in…
Mon: Memorial Day Parade and program at Florence cemetery, followed by Band cookout (along with about 150% of the town population with cousins, offspring and hangers-on) and horse work for me
and today I resumed the schedule concept for fabric work, and accomplished 2 hours of work I cannot show you on the exquisite corpse piece, and jumped the Penny horse, and jammed my finger on the Ruby horse. And had another nap, because I was on a roll. When I had Aerin in Brattleboro for circus.
I know I work better with a definite goal in mind. Doing something every day makes me work more and better too. I am going to try to keep a log of the hours I work on fabric projects, and make every effort to sink 10 hours a week into making things.
Just for interest sake, I may also log the hours I spend riding, because I know more practice makes me better there as well. I'm curious how that stacks up against the hours I spend in my room making things, and the time I spend doing household things. I am hesitant to keep too close track of time, because the keeping count, itself, can consume too much time. But a rough guess, to the closest quarter hour – that would/will be interesting.
It is the only excuse I can think of – I sat down to work on the Exquisite Corpse yesterday and broke 6 needles at the sewing machine, one after the other. It got more and more frustrating until it got funny. I finally slowed down enough (maybe) or calmed down enough, or cheered up enough or something that the needles stopped breaking and I could finish the the stitching part.
I can't show you that part, not until it is back with its owner.
Thank you for your kind words regarding the dressage. I have a very wobbly video of Ruby's and my test up on Youtube over here. If it doesn't make you seasick (!) you can see how lovely and round she is!
Lee Thomson 