Refreshing installations

 

As we get to the end of our time at the cottage we have been doing quite a bit of gardening and sorting in the yard. This has included adding to and moving some of the larger stones and assemblages around. 

We were gifted a very heavy stone with lovely contrasting lines. The stone was dropped off in the front yard by a local fiend who made it look so easy to load and unload. Together F and I found it quite the challenge to move it into its new home. The opening and following photo show it installed next to the Cabinet of Curiosities assemblage

We moved a couple of large stones to the corner of the before installing the striped stone. As you can see from the photos below this encouraged us to move F's assemblage post and the stone cottage on the post - see below.

We tidied up around the post near the fence; and the wee arch piece collected a peace weathergram.

A few bits of rust and a board with rusty bits was added to the bin enclosure.

Moving and adding to installations seems to give them a new presence.

 

Random fragments

 

A few random fragments from the phone - changing colours of autumn, the moon, red is the new colour in the garden and a couple bits of indoor cottage beauty.

First the changing colours on the lochans and hills opening and following photo.

Some recent moon photos - on cold nights.

Red, red, red ....

Flowers and wee installation in the cottage.

Random fragments of beauty remind me of hope and kindness.

Cupping stones - bowls for salt or special objects

 

Over the last couple of days I have been 'cupping' some stones collected from the cove stone beach on past trips. Cupping simple refers to carving shallow cup or bowl shaped indents-depressions in stone. In the late neolithic and early bronze age people carved cup and ring decoration into some standing and reclining stones. There is no clear story as to why this was done or how they were used.

As you can see from the opening photo I thought such cups in smaller sea tumbled stones could be used to hold salt; or they could hold special personal or sacred items such as rings or gem stones.

I used a diamond grinding disk in my side grinder to carve the stones. Bit of a tricky task as the grinder vibrates quite a lot, the side grinder is quite heavy with the battery attached and the work is very much hands on - not for the faint hearted. Needless to say I was gloved, masked and goggled up!!!! A few progress-process photos follow.

A few photos of finished cupped stones.

A few of the stones were given a coat of vegetable oil to bring out the colour.

Final photo is another of the striped stone that will probably make it's way home with us.

Finished pierced jewellery

 

Between things today I managed to get out into the Wee Workshop to saw the final two pendants I had scribed, drilled and brought over here from Maleny to saw - see opening photo.

This means I will have at least 7 pendants and 3 pairs of earrings for the Wee Pop Up Art Show at the Little Red Cottage in Maleny on 28-29 November. The five pendants and three pairs of earrings in the following photos will of course require further grinding, polishing and jump rings and wires when I get back to Maleny.

Some process photos of the sawing of today's two pendants follow. You can see the fine granules of metal cut out by the saw.

I snapped two fine saw blades in cutting these two pendants - every now and then the saw blade just jams in the cutting process - a delicate process.

Too gorgeous not to share

 

Dawn on Monday morning put on a magic light show - deep colours and rainbows as wide and as far as we could see. The opening photo shows how the wind's interaction with the cloud was also creating shapes, layers and curtains.

In no particular order some of Monday's images follow.

Even the sheep at the cove headland took on a slight glow.

The rainbow that appeared to the west on our way home started soft, intensified and then by the time we got back to the cottage it had all but gone.

Nature's temporary art show!!!!

Two tasks completed

 

Not a lot of photos in the blog post but they do show that I have completed two tasks: a watercolour commission; and the last couple of comfort stones.

The opening photo shows the completed watercolour - though it is not the greatest photo. The following photos show my workplace on the window ledge with light coming in from the west.

I completed the last two comfort stones which can be seen in the photo below.

I now have twelve stones to sell and gift. They have now been packed up for the trip home.

Before heading back to our Maleny home I will do a bit more pierced jewellery work. Couple more pendants and another set of earrings from the melted and rolled metal I brought over with me. If time permits I might make a few pairs of earrings from silver-plate and some pierced jewellery out of pure silver sheet I also brought over with me.!!!