more apartment shots

the headboard; button-upholstered with matte white vinyl the gallery wall in the 'outhouse'; all black and white drawings and etchings Here are a couple more shots of the interiors of No.6. The one in the bathroom is taken in the mirror, as the room is so small that's really the only way! These are just… Continue reading more apartment shots

absentee bloglord.

How horrid I've been with this blog for months! So too with my other web presences. I put my jewelry Etsy shop on vacation over a month ago, and there it has languished; remiss, remiss! But it was a busy and tumultuous springtime, followed by what has thus far been a summer of doing; of… Continue reading absentee bloglord.

summer.

For the moment I seem to’ve lost my hellbent verve for fixing, building and decorating. The last big project is the bathroom; replace the warped ceiling panel, tidy up the poorly-grouted tiles, and re-trim and hang some ill-cut moulding. Not as fun as some of the other things, but I will aim to work on… Continue reading summer.

wink’s new tankmate

Wink & Fillyjonk, red and white comets rescued from a feeder tank Meet Fillyjonk, Wink's new tankmate (she's on the right, with the solid red dorsal stripe). They've been doing some fish get-to-know-you dances since yesterday afternoon, when Fillyjonk was introduced into the wink-tank. Fillyjonk's name comes from the Moominvalley books by Tove Jansson. They… Continue reading wink’s new tankmate

more wink.

Wink in his new condo– a fluval edge tank the wink tank   (note: poor miss mimsy passed to the other side last week.)

A design update

Dining Room in sunset light Some BEFORE and AFTER images (not necessarily in that order). Despite deadlines, I have done a fair amount of work towards flipping this joint into a respectable space. It's one of my favorite things to do, so made the fact I had to move into a big, three-dimensional art project.… Continue reading A design update

New digs

New front room in progress; looks much like the front room at 105 The North Slope feels like a phantom limb. Time to explore my new neighborhood; get the lay of the land. Just at the moment everything feels far away. Feeling good about the new space, though. Moving is odd and sudden; takes time… Continue reading New digs

tree

Well, I've not posted even the merest speck of art in awhile now, so here is the wee drypoint test I performed during my etching & intaglio class on Tuesday. Let me tell you, drypoint on copper plate is a far cry from same on plexiglass (which I was doing during the fall, for example).… Continue reading tree

Time Travel

As I am wont to do now and again, I've just gone back two years or more by reading the entries of this blog. And just came across an entry that kinda' killed me. I'll repeat only these two sentences: What a distress it all feels sometimes, this life. While I dare not wish for… Continue reading Time Travel