October and November at a glance

My week of vacation finally came, and I spent it in San Francisco. I saw the sun, it was warm! I stayed with my best girlfriend and made a lot of food! But most notably I visited the California College of Arts to tour facilities and talk with advisors. That was probably the best thing I've done this year. By the time I returned to the cold and wet I was so pumped about going back for a masters that I jumped right into the projects I've been avoiding, and they've been getting done!

I had bought a bunch of beveled glass jewels to make snowflake-sun-catchers from to sell for Christmas. You can bet from that description that I was dragging my feet all the way. However, since I started seeing the possibilities of using three-dimentional stained glass for larger projects I've been getting more into it and using it as an exploration of forms in that medium. (and it would be nice to make some money from these experiments.)

It was about three years ago that I threatened to make more plates to eat off of, we have two currently. And since returning from SF I threw four more when the temperature was still bearable in the garage. These too have an exploratory function. I am now carving intricate scenes into their faces to practice my bas-relief sculpting and prepare compositions worthy of translating into cast glass- a project that has been growing in my mind for some time.

Finally, I've been revisiting my stockpile of yarn. It was the snow- preventing me from reaching work two days in a row, and then Thanksgiving, that allowed me to spend half a day going through and removing all the nasty worm casings and nibbled yarn ends left over from a moth orgy. It made me very sad, but also motivated to get to my yarn before those nasty pests do again. I'm thinking of making a skirt.

That's all for now.

Happy Turkey Day.