[ My usual Woods Day workbench is holding TWO hunks of driftwood, a LOT of copper wire, a tangle of three different pieces of jewelry, & several ziploc bags holding MORE jewelry. Optimism! ] I got REALLY ambitious last Saturday. Surely I could finish TWO faery home decor pieces! Right? Right?
[ A narrow but bendy length of driftwood, copper wire in various sizes, & a couple ziploc bags of beads. ] I had NO idea what I was doing with this one until I found the cool dangly rounds in with a bunch of beads I’d forgotten I had, & then the name happened & …
[ one long stick, shaped somewhat like a lacrosse stick & about a foot long; three shorter sticks, each about four inches long; & two tangles of copper wire sit in a pile, waiting for me to get a clue ] As is traditional I picked up the big stick & it told me what …
This thing where they’re telling me their names as soon as I pick up the right pieces, I’m kinda liking it.
I found this rusty weird-ass chunk of wire in the backyard of a house in Albuquerque, & I knew right away it was gonna turn into something like this. When I tucked it into the basket to go out to the woods yesterday, it told me its name: Suspend.
Apparently Woods Day is also Make A Big Piece For Trickster’s Trash Day these days. I’m good with that.
It’s been far, FAR too long since I’ve made a BIG piece for Trickster’s Trash. I knew more-or-less what this piece was going to be when I picked up the already-twisted bucket handle that frames it, so using this as a place to dip my toes back in was kinda perfect. This is where I …