Showing posts with label concrete lamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concrete lamp. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

A bit of everything



So it's been a while. And a bit of everything. Nice autumn colors at the dog park. First frost. Dogs really feel much better and more playful compared to hot days. For us it's not so fun because much more mud in the house. But we (dog people) are thinking positively it's not +30 and not -30 and it's good enough :) 




 Me                                   and mini me

Thanksgiving was very appreciated mostly by Archie. He got full turkey, well... it's the cheapest and best quality raw meat available and the offer doesn't last long. So we cut it into smaller pieces to prolong the pleasure. Such an awful dog's life :)


 
Some excitement came from small, but very cute Cobourg town. The owner of local art gallery/shop suggested to bring in some of my jewelry and slippers. Check this gallery/shop out, really really very cool place. Full of local artists' work, some concerts and exhibitions happen there too. 

http://impresariomarket.ca/

Some things from kiln .... 
finished locker from the post below
  


 
forgot that metal clay doesn't shrink too much, instead of earrings, got two pendants, but with beautiful kiln patina


... some experiments. Not sure if I like them or not. Tried a new form and a new closure for locket. Mighty internet has it all. Was looking for 2-3 mm magnet - found it :) here is the result

magnet closure

Felting experiment wasn't very successful :( Apparently my felting table is not big enough for long booties/slippers (that was not smart of me not to think about shrinkage, when constructed table), but I prised myself for being smart and thinking about waterproof basement floors :)



 


And the biggest excitement was - I made my concrete table lamp work. If you remember my attempt of using all kind of leftovers from reno, this was made from bathroom tiling thinset and plumber's piping work leftovers. Metal color spray was applied, lamp cords from ikea, shades made using balloons, PVA glue and jute twine. But the most important question was - how to connect all four bulbs into one connection without blowing fuses. I would say "Don't try that at home", but it wasn't too dangerous as I thought, problem was, that this time internet wasn't too informative or let's say very clear, because that part in high school I definitely skipped out. But anyway, it works, just need to tidy up all connections

 

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Material girl



I'm definitely material girl, not Madonna's stile but literally. Give me a new material and I'll will find what to make from it. Not that I invent a wheel again. It's just for myself new experiments . For example after building a shower bed, leftover from concrete went into concrete bowl making and later I added leftovers from plumbing (pipes) and made concrete lamps (still in process of being working lamp, but these are small details, I'll post finished product later), then after mudding shower walls with thin-set, leftovers of thin-set were used to make  concrete planters/cups. It's kind of "eco/recycle" part of me :)




 But.... first was darkness..... the hard thing - reno continue part of mudding and sanding after. I was pretty optimistic after first layer light sanding. I didn't believe the guy from YouTube when he said that the hardest part is sanding. You remember "Karate kid I" first lessons of karate, where Mr. Miyagi  teaching the ABC's? Three scenes - " Wax on Wax off", "Right circle, left circle", "All in the wrist: up, down, up, down". Well... all week was pretty much "up, down, up, down" (the mudding part) and then "wax off and on" and plus "circles" (the sanding part). I discovered that my body has too many muscles that I wasn't aware of. And was very happy and very ready for primer paint shopping, because that meant that "wax off wax on" part was over.


Vacuum cleaner was used to gather the sanded dust from floors and walls. You can see the difference between the vacuumed part and not

Joke of the week:
My son comes home from school and finds me lying on the couch in front of TV. Looks at me worried. "Are you sick?" Funny, this question never arise when he sees his daddy in that position :)