Sunday, January 19, 2020

Mainly about gravel - but also antler and horn

©2020 Barry Smith  - About 11m X 2m to be gravelled - good start
This year Fiona and I decided that finally we would tackle the bare area under the house. It has always been a bit of an eye saw. So we decided to have slats install;and gravel the area in front of them. On Thursday we finished painting the slat so then it was over to me to gravel.

I ordered 3 cubic meters of drainage gravel - good for holding the soil in place and surprising weeds. Over the weekend I did three sessions of shovelling, hauling and spreading grave. It has to be done by hauling buckets of gravel. I used about one cubic meter - about 150-170 buckets.  Looking good so far - hope to be finished by next weekend.

©2020 Barry Smith - First session was done in the rain - at least it was cool
©2020 Barry Smith - Nibbling away at the pile
©2020 Barry Smith - Progress
I did set aside a couple of hours to finish the antler earrings and pendants; and also finished off a couple of black buffalo horn pendants.

©2020 Barry Smith - Even with the glass resin the porous nature of the centre of the antler shows
©2020 Barry Smith - Cross section pendant with a black buffalo horn toggle - Scotland Highlands meets Northern Territory Australia 
©2020 Barry Smith - Cross section earrings
©2020 Barry Smith - Black buffalo horn pendants - you can see the grain of the horn
Quite a few pendants on the shelf in the display case.

©2020 Barry Smith - Many of the pendants use natural materials


3 comments:

  1. (((Barry & Fiona))) onya, moving gravel by bucket is such hard work. Love the gathering of pendants!

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  2. That's an impressive amount of gravel moving, Barry! Looks great, love the other stones accents in intervals. Cool antler jewelry

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