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Art and design from JonBurgessDesignJon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-8722703259599240162021-10-02T09:55:00.003-07:002021-10-02T09:55:59.950-07:00Geese are A**holes - So are Foxes - Cats are A**holes to each other - Laser Printers are A**holes - I'm an A**hole - A**holes run the World - Except I don't, Hmmm, maybe I'm a Failed A**hole. . . - Welcome to The New Normal ;-)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7iWhkG5DlwBWp6l7_CEArRdYvDDFxNtOsXdiHP2DAXm9luzZL2olgJyCpWSLlalYj7YNnHvhRI4dBaJUoMIVLROVORX72XKqmQ0uN8KIrzkBWGiiGJ15azAzEREqeoGe3eum88lJlPYP/s1535/IMG_20201208_144543.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Dec 20" border="0" data-original-height="1535" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7iWhkG5DlwBWp6l7_CEArRdYvDDFxNtOsXdiHP2DAXm9luzZL2olgJyCpWSLlalYj7YNnHvhRI4dBaJUoMIVLROVORX72XKqmQ0uN8KIrzkBWGiiGJ15azAzEREqeoGe3eum88lJlPYP/w626-h640/IMG_20201208_144543.jpg" width="626" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dec 20</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sorry about the ** thing, but I don't trust the powers that be not to shut me down for bad language or something. Bunch of A**holes I call 'em. . ;-)</p><p>OK, so last time I posted (A year ago!!) Lockdown was in progress and vaccines were a few months away, at least I think that was the case, time has passed in a peculiar way this past year and a half. Now things have settled down somewhat, two jabs apiece, and Covid cases being relatively stable, I felt the urge to write something here and share a fairly random selection of things I made and mostly sold in the last eight or nine months. Just to annoy you, the images have no connection to the text apart from referring to the same same time period ;-)</p><p>I recall that in my last post I mentioned in passing that the lickle cute goslings had grown up into the same raggedy feathered creatures as their parents. I even felt mildly affectionate towards them. </p><p>Hah! Well times change. I'm not best friends with them right now. They are now a goosey gang of four. (no they haven't formed an indie band, influenced by the Sheffield music scene circa 1980. There are four of them and they are a gang) . . They bully the chickens, all four onto one chicken, tugging in four directions at the same time. Our one remaining red brown girly, who was getting on a bit in chicken terms and was a bit slow, got caught and never recovered, she died the next day. 😡😢</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAJOxhFWdvpUzcis7jECfMF4qZPYMs6XF9We_Q-KicdDDqYN5VWUHAluFwZAaSa7afzXdRR3i8C7oF5yjmltuZuf-6bVfCC-90p9WX6slkrv18OZ7Ja6Oc0Qgm3q16m6wdRZ_jH8Q7drm/s1500/IMG_20210121_151118.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEAJOxhFWdvpUzcis7jECfMF4qZPYMs6XF9We_Q-KicdDDqYN5VWUHAluFwZAaSa7afzXdRR3i8C7oF5yjmltuZuf-6bVfCC-90p9WX6slkrv18OZ7Ja6Oc0Qgm3q16m6wdRZ_jH8Q7drm/w640-h640/IMG_20210121_151118.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jan 21</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The chicken bullying scenario isn't helped by the chickens' defence mechanism, if you can call it that, of crouching down when under threat instead of running away. So the geese just carry on tugging. Until one of us, me or Mrs, hears the commotion and rushes out to break it up. Usually by yelling and trying to kick the nearest one up the arse. (not wanting to hurt them you understand but dissuade them from harassing the chickies) They are well insulated in that region feather wise and anyway they are erratic moving targets, zooming off in different directions. Usually I flail wildly at nothing and fall over. They have been better of late, and the impromptu goose proof but chicken friendly fence (mesh big enough for chickies but not goosies) I erected across the orchard gives the girls some safe space. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHj7SS6yM7mZ9J5gIqRXHHpSuAVibIhFFC8URcU9sEONMZdpHFiFTkfy6vax0eO1a-k1KG4czwzKeleguIe-5hVVk5eqldEAwr9ucebIYPs_ogKnvq_DichMbkL5BZ7i5jiqm07xkwf3y/s1500/IMG_20210217_095222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHj7SS6yM7mZ9J5gIqRXHHpSuAVibIhFFC8URcU9sEONMZdpHFiFTkfy6vax0eO1a-k1KG4czwzKeleguIe-5hVVk5eqldEAwr9ucebIYPs_ogKnvq_DichMbkL5BZ7i5jiqm07xkwf3y/w640-h640/IMG_20210217_095222.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feb 21</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Last week when it kicked off again, pun intended, my slipper flew off mid flail and disappeared! I was busy goose chasing over wet ground in wet socks (nice) and didn't immediately check where it had gone. When I got round to tracking it down I couldn't find it anywhere. Trudging round the veg patch in soggy socks may count as getting closer to nature but is not my idea of a fun time so I gave up and came inside to change my socks. The next day, in shoes, I still couldn't find the errant slipper anywhere. A mystery, the footwear equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle maybe? Or had we found a portal to another dimension. One into which a soggy size nine slipper has unaccountably appeared, causing much consternation and not a little disgust. .</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FLfcrh9nhXqvH50yHt9DGenRIXcEwF554knQoxkk5py1HxMMju09-mzErapEUGua_eXVP9YXEQnIEhadngIF8aHDYnXJFflnh2RyeOpaDSt7dnL_NV8r9MhbSsDrBPtZSYjAMRcvLkMI/s1552/IMG_20210325_164121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="1300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FLfcrh9nhXqvH50yHt9DGenRIXcEwF554knQoxkk5py1HxMMju09-mzErapEUGua_eXVP9YXEQnIEhadngIF8aHDYnXJFflnh2RyeOpaDSt7dnL_NV8r9MhbSsDrBPtZSYjAMRcvLkMI/w536-h640/IMG_20210325_164121.jpg" width="536" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mar 21</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Anyway, or any road up, as they say in the North, the next night a strong wind got up, shaking the trees and bushes. Can you see where this is going? Sure enough, a single, soggy, size nine slipper had appeared in the veg patch, directly under the thick, overhanging buddleia bush. Phew, so the trans dimensional beings can relax, the slipper was still in this world, just taking time out in a nearby bush. How the geese laughed.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8y1YXoaldtOehyEU1AdehllsK4lSV6_6s8KM7hPfBf9nzAMbuCBVwL8J_9FLg0H7Nshm-JhFMLkbKf2ZQ9XNGZONX3JXn-CIhqxLS4t7XKKYgjSICIbQAQXY90xzU9KadEq4gOR7XL4c/s1579/IMG_20210415_170053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1579" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC8y1YXoaldtOehyEU1AdehllsK4lSV6_6s8KM7hPfBf9nzAMbuCBVwL8J_9FLg0H7Nshm-JhFMLkbKf2ZQ9XNGZONX3JXn-CIhqxLS4t7XKKYgjSICIbQAQXY90xzU9KadEq4gOR7XL4c/w568-h640/IMG_20210415_170053.jpg" width="568" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apr 21</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>So, what to do about it all ultimately? Tricky, we would like to move them to a safe, chicken free home but rehoming geese doesn't seem to be a thing round here. We would miss them, despite their evil tendencies. . . Still mulling this one over.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKIEz5q9GuM0sQBtONql7-husbGLu3K_xhDG3kVTzf8rgJvY9eWMqU69ZCHP2Rd-zU3BFLUsXq-o3mrcgY0y-n_Gh4TAM7nBuVNRlZMH9pF5wHgb_pfKYeNqxPStERQCaOpPOTLSn0rfh/s1500/IMG_20210506_170417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqKIEz5q9GuM0sQBtONql7-husbGLu3K_xhDG3kVTzf8rgJvY9eWMqU69ZCHP2Rd-zU3BFLUsXq-o3mrcgY0y-n_Gh4TAM7nBuVNRlZMH9pF5wHgb_pfKYeNqxPStERQCaOpPOTLSn0rfh/w640-h640/IMG_20210506_170417.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 21</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>The previously mentioned red brown, now deceased chicken, was the 'one remaining' one because a fox got her three companions earlier in the year. We are not very fox proof here, (although the local gamekeeper is on the case, as foxes are a threat to his pheasants), and think a good but short life for our chickens is better than a long, confined one. All very romantic I know.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRGEvBoRGZfwfifQoh79_DrOA7TERclxyAYNTpFpCkbodBNhtzJPjE1XMjs0j9zV-6_kttJGFp2nrdsNf722xBVPFIcPXdCijyeuxS3S6tDFQgP4YLgy_dUWozSgn6CKv9gNOfs79UuWdW/s1803/IMG_20210622_104635.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1803" data-original-width="1300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRGEvBoRGZfwfifQoh79_DrOA7TERclxyAYNTpFpCkbodBNhtzJPjE1XMjs0j9zV-6_kttJGFp2nrdsNf722xBVPFIcPXdCijyeuxS3S6tDFQgP4YLgy_dUWozSgn6CKv9gNOfs79UuWdW/w462-h640/IMG_20210622_104635.jpg" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jun 21</td></tr></tbody></table><br />After the last fox incident, losing three lovely, different breed chickens, leaving Dot, the speckled one on her own, we had a rethink and decided to adopt three rescue chickens. These are chickens that a charity, set up for that purpose, rescue (with the farmers consent and cooperation) and rehome. They are battery chickens that would otherwise be slaughtered after 72 weeks when their egg laying becomes 'uneconomical'. They are usually in a right old state, half bald, pale crested and scrawny, and would probably never have seen the light of day. But, we are assured, they recover over a month or three to become feathery, sparky, red crested chickies again. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUxBMB7kBMIKJr3nDToYCXsH0WLXKwy7Ke6bpNMmGNqOmwqgaZgFgaKQCKrs6NXpqvfUCQm8As_vwuhgNoqVMe1BeBIO9WaLiIFyoNn1L-lSiSqxl4PkI2dE2OJwTOSeAN-y-MxkgImis/s1455/MVIMG_20210829_131553.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1455" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUxBMB7kBMIKJr3nDToYCXsH0WLXKwy7Ke6bpNMmGNqOmwqgaZgFgaKQCKrs6NXpqvfUCQm8As_vwuhgNoqVMe1BeBIO9WaLiIFyoNn1L-lSiSqxl4PkI2dE2OJwTOSeAN-y-MxkgImis/w640-h440/MVIMG_20210829_131553.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rescue chicken</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;">We figure that being saved from death, however long or short a time they get is a bonus. Six weeks down the line and they are getting more feathery every day, are living up to our romantic ideal of having happy chickens running round the orchard, and are laying great big eggs. Long may it last.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiZHJw_RuASrj0-lX2Gpk4Ps4z_s7FvWNJA1KDnjA6Wg3JBvXWdcaiv5YrbaEJfDDeelkt_anOhOo7vjQUrq4579o8OpgUWqMXdH7NtZtKUo7uf6wmjoZsAgRSzHIgfM1-1YlKd6ZNrXY/s1500/IMG_20210706_161556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUiZHJw_RuASrj0-lX2Gpk4Ps4z_s7FvWNJA1KDnjA6Wg3JBvXWdcaiv5YrbaEJfDDeelkt_anOhOo7vjQUrq4579o8OpgUWqMXdH7NtZtKUo7uf6wmjoZsAgRSzHIgfM1-1YlKd6ZNrXY/w640-h640/IMG_20210706_161556.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jul 21</td></tr></tbody></table><br />That's the A**holeness of Geese and Foxes out of the way, now on to cats. We have three cats from the same litter, one boy and two girls. As they grew up they became less fond of each other, with the two girls now pretty much sworn enemies. They tolerate each other in the kitchen at feeding times, but hiss and growl in most other circumstances. They seem to have their own territories, with Cleopatra (cloppy) owning the house and back garden, with Boudicca (boo) lurking at the front of the house when she is not off gallivanting. It gets annoying as we want them to be like they were when they were sweet little kittens all curled up together. No chance! Hereward (hairy) is pretty much oblivious to the whole thing, but then he is bigger than them ;-) They are very affectionate with us, but we brought them up that way. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtr_9phl-gYriFqZNTFrSVNM5IJ7-iZ7K1W01Z2mG4KUKnA5H7niIpkdcpDDK0zXLV-yU9sz74bVIyBWc9NrhmeWggg67_oWRruZw2S5jGFUnGMYq2L6ORuOLzrBiQ4LQ0983VPNeqZIE/s1500/IMG_20210824_165304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtr_9phl-gYriFqZNTFrSVNM5IJ7-iZ7K1W01Z2mG4KUKnA5H7niIpkdcpDDK0zXLV-yU9sz74bVIyBWc9NrhmeWggg67_oWRruZw2S5jGFUnGMYq2L6ORuOLzrBiQ4LQ0983VPNeqZIE/w640-h640/IMG_20210824_165304.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aug 21</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Laser printers are not in my good books right now either, not remotely affectionate, and kicking them up the arse doesn't have any beneficial effect that I can see. Our Xerox got messed up (don't ask) so I got a new printer of a different make, but the colours were insipid and there was no obvious way to adjust the relative colour balance to get the colours right. I needed the colours right to reproduce some image transfer beads I had been asked to make copies of. So I sent it back and am about to get another Xerox. Frustrating stuff, but kind of trivial in the general scheme of things, the World being run, as it is by A**holes seemingly intent on looking the other way as we head towards the cliff edge. . . </p><p>I have just started a News moratorium, so now I am the one looking the other way, but I'm not running the flippin' World, getting depressed by things you have no power to change is just soul destroying, I've had enough of it for now ;-( Cue the good old Serenity Prayer. . .</p><p>On that happy note, stay well. I shall endeavour to do likewise,</p><p>Jon X</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-Q-kDTR8c3XsFDJyLptPsC2ClNYGwfXTyzremhJfuWhU80Kd7GJRNs8xy3fLVLLdiPqfzo79AFhD4YBKHo2rGinbzgTLV_YwvOaOUWNfZ0JtxMrv1sWbmYVdGzcqQ_MgZBUfD_JUCewf/s1500/IMG_20210909_153739.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1499" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY-Q-kDTR8c3XsFDJyLptPsC2ClNYGwfXTyzremhJfuWhU80Kd7GJRNs8xy3fLVLLdiPqfzo79AFhD4YBKHo2rGinbzgTLV_YwvOaOUWNfZ0JtxMrv1sWbmYVdGzcqQ_MgZBUfD_JUCewf/w640-h640/IMG_20210909_153739.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sept 21</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p>Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-88656593310170862812020-11-15T04:46:00.001-08:002020-11-15T04:46:05.691-08:00Goodbye Website Shop, Chronic Blog Neglect and more bleedin' Lockdown to get through. . .<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MSjNxN4V6VCnpZAT8uKZys6iCPjYjZ2QgDkyVolxq5xHRwadcVFFte1PUPhnTq7nfrE4XKISQlKvpDjykmgVYpeC6thDhXOq0VINkduiIi1m6dc48yZaZmObFNEf0uIjsd0RRW46KNau/s1500/IMG_20201005_143626.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9MSjNxN4V6VCnpZAT8uKZys6iCPjYjZ2QgDkyVolxq5xHRwadcVFFte1PUPhnTq7nfrE4XKISQlKvpDjykmgVYpeC6thDhXOq0VINkduiIi1m6dc48yZaZmObFNEf0uIjsd0RRW46KNau/w640-h640/IMG_20201005_143626.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Blog neglect taken to the lengths that I have taken it to is probably a criminal offence. . . But I just don't feel the urge these days. The Groundhog Day existence this Covid virus has caused doesn't help. At least my repetitive life involves some repetitive selling. Grateful thanks to all the bead buyers out there still accumulating the raw materials for their jewellery projects.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZzPTwwj4iAi1xWeMD0FYmDpNVzO2R7OXUO8WVkX1Xc4f64odBE5XECObGj88WPCIcP0tqtdx7DfiB-l2HW5DCvhKEDZKhOEzl1D4eA48H_Un_H4iGyAeRtGhX8GeeJVQFh7AOF9zIYCZ/s1500/IMG_20201015_121403.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZzPTwwj4iAi1xWeMD0FYmDpNVzO2R7OXUO8WVkX1Xc4f64odBE5XECObGj88WPCIcP0tqtdx7DfiB-l2HW5DCvhKEDZKhOEzl1D4eA48H_Un_H4iGyAeRtGhX8GeeJVQFh7AOF9zIYCZ/w640-h640/IMG_20201015_121403.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>My website has also suffered. I only have one because I feel I ought to, and my website shop is only there because people say that a stand alone shop is a good thing to have. I am not convinced. I am even less motivated to promote it than I am to make blog posts so it is somewhat unloved right now. Most of all by me. I do OK on Etsy and sell on Facebook so really it is surplus to requirements. I am going to wind the shop up and put the beads etc on Etsy, or FB from time to time. The website itself I will keep as a source of info if anyone wishes to find out anything about my work that isn't obvious by looking at it. .</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2FWBRm2iSZiLZWAwwwcAi5xcEjp9iZ62QjvBV4AahMrp-AQvvyJTLcdNnCeqyRty2MEM2qOZHxCIXC4CBCUvL29SK-t9d0PvVueWKWrO3GpCbtKa0MQvOS5a7fxZDUEA_OnDRZt_aJNV/s1500/IMG_20201029_144229.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2FWBRm2iSZiLZWAwwwcAi5xcEjp9iZ62QjvBV4AahMrp-AQvvyJTLcdNnCeqyRty2MEM2qOZHxCIXC4CBCUvL29SK-t9d0PvVueWKWrO3GpCbtKa0MQvOS5a7fxZDUEA_OnDRZt_aJNV/w640-h640/IMG_20201029_144229.jpg" title="Black and white scratch pattern spindle" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black and white scratch design spindle bead<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>On the domestic front, we are down to two chickens. Not sure what happened to the two that went missing but the F word is the obvious answer, a fox got them I am guessing. No stray tell-tale clumps of feathers though so it was a clean job. Must have been a daylight raid as they sleep in their firmly shut chicken coop thingy (a converted child's Wendy House according to the previous house owner. .) They had also stopped laying a week or two ago, not sure why but it does happen from time to time I am told. I will probably get a couple of replacements next spring, maybe some more arty, feathery legged ones this time, we shall see.</p><p>We have four adult geese now as the two goslings have grown into healthy adults, just as raggedy looking as their parents. Sebastopol geese are such eccentric looking things, like they just had a fight with a shredder ;-) Noisy, but amusing have around, mostly. .</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqv2yHKm9gCqcQGdFHHpFcCZ1LlUMA9qL40Frq4OESlP8ji7fdeWoJ_FK5G5GovEU8i5dDj4kRglRF3Wl2IT9ehtCcMhEJxVkkJI_7IyPCRCrtOUQALsve5k1ODRK0WPYSTP6POc6T_Mh/s1500/IMG_20201027_113055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqv2yHKm9gCqcQGdFHHpFcCZ1LlUMA9qL40Frq4OESlP8ji7fdeWoJ_FK5G5GovEU8i5dDj4kRglRF3Wl2IT9ehtCcMhEJxVkkJI_7IyPCRCrtOUQALsve5k1ODRK0WPYSTP6POc6T_Mh/w640-h640/IMG_20201027_113055.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Work - More of the same sort of thing. Variations on stripe painted 'spindles' and spikes, with some nice scratch design beads thrown in. Less of the Industrial Boho side of things but I am moving in that direction again.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP8gmkQ_FKM7HPnkwqCDsgecjJ0q2TaYpDJ_PDJf6JlFf7AxpegoftkzIuaA0YvflBODA1xnAGva0e6ohULCeqwhZvt21gFgQlZN18wgBfYzFqmGZujtsh-U2IB3MmmDSNF42PrFe5rZKS/s2048/IMG_20201112_153208.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1466" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP8gmkQ_FKM7HPnkwqCDsgecjJ0q2TaYpDJ_PDJf6JlFf7AxpegoftkzIuaA0YvflBODA1xnAGva0e6ohULCeqwhZvt21gFgQlZN18wgBfYzFqmGZujtsh-U2IB3MmmDSNF42PrFe5rZKS/w458-h640/IMG_20201112_153208.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjz5c5BrGXUuUXCQUuuX5-UGoOHixv21DbO8Bg_cTNDS45-NAvbodFFP22-ng2tcnalhv6-WGmQymJiwFj129M8jf6Lam7_UrV7aqtD0_8ho8eYUovwlmhybS9ABz2oGg48CAfc55B6Ecu/s1500/IMG_20201022_153242.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjz5c5BrGXUuUXCQUuuX5-UGoOHixv21DbO8Bg_cTNDS45-NAvbodFFP22-ng2tcnalhv6-WGmQymJiwFj129M8jf6Lam7_UrV7aqtD0_8ho8eYUovwlmhybS9ABz2oGg48CAfc55B6Ecu/w640-h640/IMG_20201022_153242.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62QzSv_xTAxtH98L-9_kKN37Tl_5lnWsz5o6p1FnaLRVp4wFIrXFaZYFYlWwglDfDklRIEYG0ptxzOH3r_Z68-Pb0uq9OSPPpSSrTJ88lr8IVQ7ycqprDIvXEpYan-dKeoFN5wxVnfqCq/s1518/IMG_20201008_153706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1518" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62QzSv_xTAxtH98L-9_kKN37Tl_5lnWsz5o6p1FnaLRVp4wFIrXFaZYFYlWwglDfDklRIEYG0ptxzOH3r_Z68-Pb0uq9OSPPpSSrTJ88lr8IVQ7ycqprDIvXEpYan-dKeoFN5wxVnfqCq/w632-h640/IMG_20201008_153706.jpg" width="632" /></a></p><p>I did make some moulds using plastic dinosaurs. Not as popular as I had hoped but fun to make and fun to use.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKJ9JMv1BgMdwsnpJrAXjtmUIUR39gqo0DUbYizV8Kuul5UgGQiAtRAqfeGTv8lQtGB9RHhfqEZ1oJKf0Zv5Twk4tweI3NDrcOOC-dXLJ0Z0rfGU2WbMF_-SaANB2mCIxkBO_74rJSVNmh/s1500/IMG_20201001_153957.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKJ9JMv1BgMdwsnpJrAXjtmUIUR39gqo0DUbYizV8Kuul5UgGQiAtRAqfeGTv8lQtGB9RHhfqEZ1oJKf0Zv5Twk4tweI3NDrcOOC-dXLJ0Z0rfGU2WbMF_-SaANB2mCIxkBO_74rJSVNmh/w640-h640/IMG_20201001_153957.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>I have made a couple of small assemblage/diorama things but am awaiting a bit more inspiration before I take them any further.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3DR0aFhNkJBXfSg8bjIwz4de70KoThrsBg2gbRavZVDeC5Jx_4jeu5Ks80dsk-33ZyoI7MZduuylqUp5DV211NrT-Svg01_NTgxvQdZFRhiPluUtrYKy-mMuMW7h6QytnzCPOmdo2W52/s1901/IMG_20200923_143328.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1901" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE3DR0aFhNkJBXfSg8bjIwz4de70KoThrsBg2gbRavZVDeC5Jx_4jeu5Ks80dsk-33ZyoI7MZduuylqUp5DV211NrT-Svg01_NTgxvQdZFRhiPluUtrYKy-mMuMW7h6QytnzCPOmdo2W52/w504-h640/IMG_20200923_143328.jpg" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Nicholson'</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy33cgQps396hURV66T4tgc2odJtxuoARHfFEis7iaiZpIy_Akagba-wYv49yfrahT8juehkihL6QvMq6-Xomkcb33D8YXkaI8I_RgDMqUlLL7TaatHmhU39znOL_S82QwYtFefmw-3w1t/s1907/IMG_20201005_144100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1907" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy33cgQps396hURV66T4tgc2odJtxuoARHfFEis7iaiZpIy_Akagba-wYv49yfrahT8juehkihL6QvMq6-Xomkcb33D8YXkaI8I_RgDMqUlLL7TaatHmhU39znOL_S82QwYtFefmw-3w1t/w504-h640/IMG_20201005_144100.jpg" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Backing Singers. .<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>I would really like to make more actual jewellery, but it is a whole new ball game and I need to get more confident that I am making the most of my work and my particular way of creating. It has to fit my aesthetic so to speak. Also, if I am going to tie up fifty quids worth of beads and focal etc in a necklace, I would need to sell stuff for a decent price. I have to feel that what I make is 'worth it', not to mention whether there is a receptive audience for it out there.</p><p>Earrings do seem to be the way to go too. Everyone else seems to make them, and they keep on selling. I assume that earrings are the sort of thing that buyers like to have lots of around, unlike necklaces. Still considering this. . .</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2By-grN5XPxkaD4lTz7mgDBOepBFSweJtRINxmPrajiBLaoSk5dKBCfKFtq-QnXI6KQO8_6Gqg8c1d9iXKUXvSI6FJDrk_64ouzJ2F4aEda6jdTWiYYQysd0-Sex_igtJ2_rPT5S1NsdD/s1500/IMG_20201029_134519.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2By-grN5XPxkaD4lTz7mgDBOepBFSweJtRINxmPrajiBLaoSk5dKBCfKFtq-QnXI6KQO8_6Gqg8c1d9iXKUXvSI6FJDrk_64ouzJ2F4aEda6jdTWiYYQysd0-Sex_igtJ2_rPT5S1NsdD/w640-h640/IMG_20201029_134519.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Oh yes, I also made a couple of pieces into cool wall art, by deepening a couple of small, ornate-ish frames that I had knocking around, to make shallow, shadow box type things, into which I put a couple of pieces that were once intended to be pendants but looked good just as they were. I think they came out well. The trouble is that now we have another Lockdown I can't pay a visit to the framing shop to see what other small frames they have lurking on their shelves so I can make some more. Fah!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dgZrHNlDALhU3Yf5QaiDndvfLZgvlxSu8dnDD7edBcFiyhZs-RNGkciiy9qN3FzGTpRENbaHc37UvOot2-1s63xJOBouEYtStdmcoQNKdUlhHPptcZtHc-aSnBiHtMsI-cSyYTjM0JXo/s1500/IMG_20201029_135050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dgZrHNlDALhU3Yf5QaiDndvfLZgvlxSu8dnDD7edBcFiyhZs-RNGkciiy9qN3FzGTpRENbaHc37UvOot2-1s63xJOBouEYtStdmcoQNKdUlhHPptcZtHc-aSnBiHtMsI-cSyYTjM0JXo/w640-h640/IMG_20201029_135050.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh well, I shall persevere and we will all get through this. . . The vaccine news is good, so far, and though I hate to mention politics, the US election 'should' work out for the best eventually. I must admit it has been depressing the life out of me and I don't even live there!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway, stay safe and stay well,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jon x</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-89943536240522743102020-09-26T02:20:00.000-07:002020-09-26T02:20:19.712-07:00Moulds, Molds, Bears, Giant Babies and The Cautious Emergence of The Weirdly Absurd<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzaSFP6e00oqEjhMRgrGc0umCwJaX9V4lowy6NEBrDwqwapmR9F5qndb2PPpHMJ3RmCsazjWD1zcbjbj3FaWemX6vpJjUhDLZaoLgJCAwR5aO-_EH0F3QDXiWo9mr2xgQsRgv4IZtNnU0J/s1500/IMG_20200922_160756.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzaSFP6e00oqEjhMRgrGc0umCwJaX9V4lowy6NEBrDwqwapmR9F5qndb2PPpHMJ3RmCsazjWD1zcbjbj3FaWemX6vpJjUhDLZaoLgJCAwR5aO-_EH0F3QDXiWo9mr2xgQsRgv4IZtNnU0J/w640-h640/IMG_20200922_160756.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, I've been doing the usual thing, neglecting this blog and manically experimenting/pottering. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Allowing that it is possible to potter manically of course - I'm taking the view that it most certainly is. .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The trouble is, as I have probably mentioned before, is that my focus shifts so quickly between projects and ideas that I am into a new idea before I have blogged about the last one. Then eventually, the weight of unblogged about things becomes so great that my Blogger's Guilt kicks in and I try to feature about ten ideas at once. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh well, so be it ;-)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhRBHSDx8shwpAMxEIDpdmP1D8WyjmiwJseA5AiXUwrYTx_1iIbe6tGsTgXpNr0TQEMYjdRl03FOGi8Mvj9CQHoic9U3J5PzRUvrDoKXdORY81KnfUelPpqXmt4yokpQO4y_SzqEvutfa/s2008/IMG_20200923_143854.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2008" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhRBHSDx8shwpAMxEIDpdmP1D8WyjmiwJseA5AiXUwrYTx_1iIbe6tGsTgXpNr0TQEMYjdRl03FOGi8Mvj9CQHoic9U3J5PzRUvrDoKXdORY81KnfUelPpqXmt4yokpQO4y_SzqEvutfa/w640-h478/IMG_20200923_143854.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, first up - You remember the plastic model railway figures from my last post? Course you do. I have made a few more little surreal scenes using them, (in this case some very nice hurrying passengers) and a few very pink plastic babies I came across on the internet (of course). Combined with an image transfer of one of my digital fake-cell-structure creations and a few other bits and pieces this interesting little scenario came about. It's called "Try to ignore The Babies".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9t4IwfcLJB3BR-1iDMx9qu9DL0AiQRMqaNv-ScJP8dNRLa5ovm0PIea3OsDAJqPtKhzRvFmrH7hz_JTShBzYKCSfLF8IvFFqAYAA9goO83uQqYMgn1gyK4dMk38V3IU9lQhXFFwmPtzc/s1758/IMG_20200922_161109.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1758" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn9t4IwfcLJB3BR-1iDMx9qu9DL0AiQRMqaNv-ScJP8dNRLa5ovm0PIea3OsDAJqPtKhzRvFmrH7hz_JTShBzYKCSfLF8IvFFqAYAA9goO83uQqYMgn1gyK4dMk38V3IU9lQhXFFwmPtzc/w546-h640/IMG_20200922_161109.jpg" width="546" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Taking this post to be a vaguely logical progression, I considered said plastic babies and wondered how making polymer clay moulds of them might work out. Polymer clay does seem to be pretty good for mould making. Non-flexible ones but that is OK. This Baby/Alien piece was made using crude impressions from one of the moulds I made. With some crackle effect technique and additional glass beads. (I was given a box of various small beads from a friend. I didn't think they were the sort of thing I would be using but as it happened they found a place)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWk4wcWDb60ENs1joahVLv2q0EIXTmuv1C49xBlbArxTloJ0j5ZPk3DLUaAow_vKVLHBDhArmuatwtufG23mQ1rJF-Sf4CSYE4Jb0fA-JFIAuAXGnzbljJYF7Z9rJSx5M6Gq4IqK3u1cKA/s1500/IMG_20200910_150211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWk4wcWDb60ENs1joahVLv2q0EIXTmuv1C49xBlbArxTloJ0j5ZPk3DLUaAow_vKVLHBDhArmuatwtufG23mQ1rJF-Sf4CSYE4Jb0fA-JFIAuAXGnzbljJYF7Z9rJSx5M6Gq4IqK3u1cKA/w640-h640/IMG_20200910_150211.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One mould led to another, this time using a couple of model railway figures, which, my creative process being what it is, resulted in some pieces with a very different vibe. Using inks and Ren wax etc etc helped.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnnaU74l11-MRLyufkTYe6I4exIQlEui0GF_uT45IcuH24MvHs7gBPTGRFQRk5tulcg7LRfBZHSaJR_dSgcXJP7UsQW-w3o4FRCz8CowNujIsIUYyoQWhymxK-dXB6WWF8yQChbtX-Pm45/s1685/IMG_20200910_150242.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnnaU74l11-MRLyufkTYe6I4exIQlEui0GF_uT45IcuH24MvHs7gBPTGRFQRk5tulcg7LRfBZHSaJR_dSgcXJP7UsQW-w3o4FRCz8CowNujIsIUYyoQWhymxK-dXB6WWF8yQChbtX-Pm45/w570-h640/IMG_20200910_150242.jpg" width="570" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As is the way of these things, before long, some of my little plastic animals got roped in to the mould making frenzy. These two little Red Panda head drops came about that way. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54ZeEVp5kntVsL2pl_PGBNSw4GWglPyYqMtAsVdUmTcKAIoCi91Q9jKCpoxonuz9Bllp52er40E6EykOjByPyTOgcxElOXfKRIHp_J-i3nHjFeGXQSnU32FeJEPm3zytvZMdAxckrakN6/s1500/IMG_20200922_160823.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54ZeEVp5kntVsL2pl_PGBNSw4GWglPyYqMtAsVdUmTcKAIoCi91Q9jKCpoxonuz9Bllp52er40E6EykOjByPyTOgcxElOXfKRIHp_J-i3nHjFeGXQSnU32FeJEPm3zytvZMdAxckrakN6/w640-h640/IMG_20200922_160823.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And this Bear pendant. All interesting stuff I thought.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhksadymt-00_wQrFF8pP9eCIXYWpIrKW4B-9x90KQFesspHWyeLU7x2C9lycm2isEDOTIiKzY1R7OtivKs_DYtq_FJ1NSgIbB_MT7xDxMZVMK_fTT3uCLSA4xxBjIMSNcGEqwVX4doYMLU/s1500/IMG_20200922_161034.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhksadymt-00_wQrFF8pP9eCIXYWpIrKW4B-9x90KQFesspHWyeLU7x2C9lycm2isEDOTIiKzY1R7OtivKs_DYtq_FJ1NSgIbB_MT7xDxMZVMK_fTT3uCLSA4xxBjIMSNcGEqwVX4doYMLU/w640-h640/IMG_20200922_161034.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And moving skilfully on, like a smooth radio DJ style link, talking of bears, I made some bear images using a rubber stamp I acquired, and taking sort of multiple, artily out of register monoprints from the stamp's impression on poly clay, which I coloured up in various ways. </div><div style="text-align: left;">I used one of these images as the background for this piece called "Big Bear, Good Dog" ;-)</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVCZhCbhbZxNsolgC7ikSCjHSfuxtBEpd_MTYJeDvAFKJoQBuhv4_eTpOI63HY_tWhfB9fHcvNSF_C7D8XMmU8p3_4vnB3iufnUWkz3pDcEbCxwi5micshpvny-nMblcHrNQ4Bu3JkBOy/s1744/IMG_20200923_143232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1744" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVCZhCbhbZxNsolgC7ikSCjHSfuxtBEpd_MTYJeDvAFKJoQBuhv4_eTpOI63HY_tWhfB9fHcvNSF_C7D8XMmU8p3_4vnB3iufnUWkz3pDcEbCxwi5micshpvny-nMblcHrNQ4Bu3JkBOy/w550-h640/IMG_20200923_143232.jpg" width="550" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>Moulds from the heads of various plastic figures I have had knocking around for years came into the equation also, to somewhat creepy effect. Only somewhat, as the absurd tends to trump the creepy; in the work I do at any rate. Here's a couple of spike beads and drops to emphasise my point.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_DWvOFzPzetzaJwKguvagk12AM3o2HwO3zVImGacytzZhUX4LuIIze8X7MzGAXuyTgmUJMDJMh8W9JS_V3OHHiZWEsNtJU8noqf0hm6kTpgBCwgIW3hocesexIBc57VCXFMSzLUrF0fn/s1534/IMG_20200924_151709.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_DWvOFzPzetzaJwKguvagk12AM3o2HwO3zVImGacytzZhUX4LuIIze8X7MzGAXuyTgmUJMDJMh8W9JS_V3OHHiZWEsNtJU8noqf0hm6kTpgBCwgIW3hocesexIBc57VCXFMSzLUrF0fn/w626-h640/IMG_20200924_151709.jpg" width="626" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwuzvEtmpxhVaXfccb19HYsGbQO0H9PK68OQf3Yd90cmSGCGce2dDYRYLLV_y3rsCYOjwvdeYfAQhgrE744aJfDrjbIbeuSHY7hnfW6HXmeDRXWeGUx7zkT3dxnwK3TzAvoBN6ktDdPIQ/s1500/IMG_20200922_161239.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwuzvEtmpxhVaXfccb19HYsGbQO0H9PK68OQf3Yd90cmSGCGce2dDYRYLLV_y3rsCYOjwvdeYfAQhgrE744aJfDrjbIbeuSHY7hnfW6HXmeDRXWeGUx7zkT3dxnwK3TzAvoBN6ktDdPIQ/w640-h640/IMG_20200922_161239.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The more observant amongst you will have clocked the strange image at the top of this post. This was me trying to mix and match heads and bodies ;-) The body is from a mould of an unpainted pottery dog blank that I acquired from who knows where, ages ago, and the head is from a plastic motorcyclist. the result is like some very odd artifact from an archaeological site somewhere. No idea idea where that 'somewhere' might be though. . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So that's me for the moment. Other stuff will no doubt emerge from my fevered brain as this strange time of Covidiosyncratic Groundhog Days grinds on, and on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Oh well, and talking of 'well', stay well!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">best, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jon x</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div>Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-25607539665135237102020-08-14T07:48:00.000-07:002020-08-14T07:48:31.382-07:00Taking Bigfoot Golfing, Retro Image Thingies and other Potential Oddities<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXeuVTZ4KidNei5kA3cMSqEK0fDmLt-ig22vyiJEzmBd9lVY8HRrup0bB72e9ekQUww23Wn41EO79ARElX4IECJPb7l6Uz5X4-UPov2yihL40EZnYdbqRmZ8RjJTWBBLgEUXPIXb4rFVcJ/s1500/IMG_20200806_131453.jpg" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXeuVTZ4KidNei5kA3cMSqEK0fDmLt-ig22vyiJEzmBd9lVY8HRrup0bB72e9ekQUww23Wn41EO79ARElX4IECJPb7l6Uz5X4-UPov2yihL40EZnYdbqRmZ8RjJTWBBLgEUXPIXb4rFVcJ/s640/IMG_20200806_131453.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking Bigfoot Golfing</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Well, having been through a mini frenzy of making odd, not really jewellery - not really anything else, type things involving model railway figures etc, I have stopped to take a breath and have a think about what and where it is all going, and if indeed it has to 'go' anywhere anyway. . .<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE_Z5s2kqGFGqG04bNcv7sSyO0EKrMiSmBtRsm793di20rfeHdAF5VdClbHXxv15x4G-uOEc6viq9zVKvXBHdXo5N3dPwbbeseg63hfwYzt3jlhZXyF_RxNOJ_B83HL7gko0O9vT4w8R3M/s1500/IMG_20200729_133929.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE_Z5s2kqGFGqG04bNcv7sSyO0EKrMiSmBtRsm793di20rfeHdAF5VdClbHXxv15x4G-uOEc6viq9zVKvXBHdXo5N3dPwbbeseg63hfwYzt3jlhZXyF_RxNOJ_B83HL7gko0O9vT4w8R3M/s640/IMG_20200729_133929.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Bear says 'Hi'</td></tr></tbody></table><br />As you probably noticed, the background images I have been using are rather wonderful, out of register, retro graphics of the cheap, far eastern variety. These ones date from around the nineteen sixties and are taken from some Japanese made water transfer sets I acquired from an Ebay source. I think they are beautiful in their unpretentious simplicity and depiction of various, often western (some are of cowboys, so the word Western is apt) cultural artifacts as seen through the lens of another culture and Art tradition etc. I don't imagine that they were ever intended to be admired as artworks as such, and probably you think I am nuts to love them so much ;-) Yeah, well. . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2H8GkZRPG39h3hBtHj7L2zWdGbF3UGYVYu6m19uYG2iylwC-HXF-LYmxxTFaGyl_5B-Vjjqd5Cx5hyI8AJQTuKBx4K6ihc-Uih0Rb_RE4f9QSd9ABzJoFFvm8NKBwlsvhgYT4Ttpq7pG/s1500/IMG_20200729_133644.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2H8GkZRPG39h3hBtHj7L2zWdGbF3UGYVYu6m19uYG2iylwC-HXF-LYmxxTFaGyl_5B-Vjjqd5Cx5hyI8AJQTuKBx4K6ihc-Uih0Rb_RE4f9QSd9ABzJoFFvm8NKBwlsvhgYT4Ttpq7pG/s640/IMG_20200729_133644.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Bad Guy brooch</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I've been trying to see how they want to be used. I tried putting them together with electronic components and upcycled wire grids and the like, which worked OK, but it felt like I was doing the same old thing that I do with my digital abstract images, without getting a feel for how these new images work with other materials. <div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbpE1N65lgUuVWcgH04mz-ICE1g_7HNT568HTfpuUlI4zSQPR322nI3oYEAnpWvqZYeJshBNuD6WI5CRqPgd3G2mMPkKZMyrBT7GPSkD8x4z-F8UZ-7uP25XIXNkR5iFc81Jb9EQKvoc7/s2048/IMG_20200729_133709.jpg" style="display: inline !important; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbpE1N65lgUuVWcgH04mz-ICE1g_7HNT568HTfpuUlI4zSQPR322nI3oYEAnpWvqZYeJshBNuD6WI5CRqPgd3G2mMPkKZMyrBT7GPSkD8x4z-F8UZ-7uP25XIXNkR5iFc81Jb9EQKvoc7/s640/IMG_20200729_133709.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They are nice on their own as simple brooches or buttons, or just as image tile drops with a single hole at the top, but I can't help feeling there is something else I can do with them. I'll get there, I just need to give it time and space to emerge. . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbc2OK6YxsqRhGGYfgTU6jEbI4DjlKEtdbpRmqbrbSA8z1nPmmDBWY61pdxM2hC1ytDMgG4y9NH8bAtfYEjJ5ZWhLSsxVhjYV2CkQmH-j9hS67CBYponcDbBxmUApWGmEdr1RsLMjOdrFA/s1500/IMG_20200806_130916.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbc2OK6YxsqRhGGYfgTU6jEbI4DjlKEtdbpRmqbrbSA8z1nPmmDBWY61pdxM2hC1ytDMgG4y9NH8bAtfYEjJ5ZWhLSsxVhjYV2CkQmH-j9hS67CBYponcDbBxmUApWGmEdr1RsLMjOdrFA/s640/IMG_20200806_130916.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Bad Guys<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGkIyClETlqU_rccyt0xJFFUzLbS_K41p8BKyXE3EZdrhoZDhR26QcID4DlX9wS5gZwJeEfzxFfrZjwa0nLdzanzKl9HixaolOuwl3PZ-8_dxB9KE6BjqFcCCSWdV4tkH3VvyaTgz641GP/s1500/IMG_20200806_131236.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGkIyClETlqU_rccyt0xJFFUzLbS_K41p8BKyXE3EZdrhoZDhR26QcID4DlX9wS5gZwJeEfzxFfrZjwa0nLdzanzKl9HixaolOuwl3PZ-8_dxB9KE6BjqFcCCSWdV4tkH3VvyaTgz641GP/s640/IMG_20200806_131236.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Godzilla or somesuch<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hK7MgDNc9eXttDZ1lCW-wYlI88WEXi4msJKxTQzHTgsrvl4Sn7t8wey_L3rWrM-ch3UeWHyBZmkPQGf4paT1Xuq2fk7GlTh_EMXtkIdpiy1vsxfrse6HAh9UcxXCnIZEGp4zhJ_aD1do/s1500/IMG_20200806_131555.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hK7MgDNc9eXttDZ1lCW-wYlI88WEXi4msJKxTQzHTgsrvl4Sn7t8wey_L3rWrM-ch3UeWHyBZmkPQGf4paT1Xuq2fk7GlTh_EMXtkIdpiy1vsxfrse6HAh9UcxXCnIZEGp4zhJ_aD1do/w640-h640/IMG_20200806_131555.jpg" title="TrainDeer" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TrainDeer<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pairing them with little plastic animals from the same source has some promise, as does using the little animals on their own with other bits and pieces. Sort of surreal dioramas or scenes can be constructed with their own weird stories or non-stories. . . hmmm. . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I'll continue to mull this over, meanwhile making various beads and such. I'll let you know how I get on. .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">cheers, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Jon x</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div></div>Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-88496480441060212092020-07-20T06:01:00.000-07:002020-07-20T06:01:00.852-07:00Fun with Biscuits etc. Not a Tutorial. A Journey Down My Creative Process, Such As It Is. . .Start off by having a silly idea while trying to get to sleep.<br />
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Wake up in the morning and think "Why not? What have I got to lose?" etc etc and wander into the workshop. After all it is still Lockdown pretty much and you are going slightly nuts like everyone else. . .<br />
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In line with the aforementioned silly idea, take some of these. . .<br />
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'These' being what are known as 'biscuits', which shouldn't be confused with what are normally thought of as biscuits round here as they are distinctly inedible, even if dunked in really hot tea.<br />
They are in fact small pieces of plywood used to accurately join two sheets of wood, as in a worktop. Useful things, only I didn't get on with them particularly, even with the proper biscuit jointer power tool thingy. I have plenty of them lying around though, and have previously used them every now and then in bead related projects. (I have no idea if Americans call them 'cookies' or not. . . Quite probably. Whatever. . . )<br />
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Now take some of this stuff, which is 2mm diameter approx blue plastic 'wire' from the large reel of it to be found in the shed, left by our house's previous owner. I assume it is strimmer wire but I can't be certain, and am not that bothered what it is. I am just aware of it sitting there awaiting some sort of use. (My strimmer uses those little plastic things rather than plastic wire, which though a bit pricey, is so much better. The wire ones are a complete and utter total pain.)<br />
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Lay the biscuits on a thin sheet of polymer clay and cut round them. Bake and then glue the resulting poly clay pieces onto the biscuits. Tidy up the edges.<br />
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Drill 2mm holes in patterns or at random intervals in the poly clay fronted biscuits.<br />
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Cut some short, roughly the same size, lengths of the plastic wire and poke them into the holes in the biscuits. Try different length bits on each biscuit. Look at the results and go "Hmmm.. ."<br />
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Decide to paint the biscuits with bright colours that will set off the blue of the plastic bits nicely.<br />
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Decide you quite like the results and glue the bits in place.<br />
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Think "Now what?"<br />
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Sleep on it. Not literally, obviously as that would be a bit spiky.<br />
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Next day, decide to see what one of the simpler ones would look like as a pendant. OK, a bit obvious maybe, but worth keeping. Looks like a little scrubbing brush, but in a good way I hope ;-)<br />
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Try one out as a brooch. Kind of funky, but as the plastic bits on this one are quite long the whole thing kind of hangs down instead of sitting nicely on the chest or lapel or whatever.<br />
Try to stabilise it with some upcycled wire grid. That works pretty well. Another keeper.<br />
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Now, get distracted by the model railway figures you just bought, and ones you had around anyway. For fun, put the two retro, cute kids on the more minimal biscuit as though standing by a fence or somesuch. Nice. But how to use this as a pendant as it's flat and horizontal, not vertical. Maybe a tallish wire loop would do the job and allow the piece to be hung on a chain or something. That could work. I like. . .<br />
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For more fun, put the milk churn carrying man in amongst some shorter plastic bits, like he's walking through grass. How about a wire grid to maybe allow the piece to be strung somehow? The grid obviously needs some electronic components and an image transfer abstract tile to finish it off. The electronic bits also go with his shirt.<br />
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Box carrying man can also get in on the 3D act, with a grid and another image transfer abstract tile above him as he heaves his box through the rather small opening in the 'fence'.<br />
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The question "Why?" doesn't need to be asked unless the answer "Because" is sufficient for you, because that's all the reply you will get ;-)<br />
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These can be weird pendants or equally weird small ornaments for the mantlepiece.<br />
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Just what you've always wanted ;-)<br />
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Now call it a day and wait for the next silly idea. . .<br />
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Well, still in the throes of this lockdown thing though the situation has eased slightly. Shops are open again apparently, which makes no difference to me as I am not remotely interested in risking my life and that of others in order to 'shop'. To be fair I don't do 'shopping' at the best of times, I buy stuff as and when I need it, so I don't see shopping as a recreational activity in it's own right and can't understand why anyone does ;-) Especially in those hideous, charmless and soul destroying places known as Malls. . .</div>
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My wife went to the coast yesterday to scope out the seaside town for possible painting locations, she is part of a 'plein air' landscape group who intend to meet up on Sunday for the first time since lockdown began. The place was heaving with visitors, no masks, no social distancing, just crowds of idiots. So she came home pretty quick. What is wrong with people? Silly question, don't get me started. . So no plein air meeting on Sunday, or if there is, she won't be going.</div>
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While I am on the subject of domestic life, the two goslings are growing apace and are over half as big as mum and dad. They are growing white feathers to replace the downy yellow ones they had up to now. Big fat healthy buggers they are too. Good to see. The moorhens have several babies but are being quite shy about it all, very protective, so I'm not sure how many babies. At least three.</div>
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Anyway, I'm still making and selling stuff, so not a lot has changed for me really. I tend to move between obsessions, bead wise, and have been exploring striped tube type beads and 'spindles' for a while. Encouraged, it has to be said, by buyers being quite keen on them. I try to avoid the temptation to make things because I 'know' they will sell, but I fall prey to it from time to time. I usually find that when that happens it turns and bites me in the bum. The surefire sellers don't sell and I am left feeling suitable chastened for my presumption, and determined not to get caught again. Until next time ;-)</div>
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I also have an ongoing obsession with model railway figures, the little people that model railway enthusiasts position on platforms etc. I have used them before on wire frames, but it occurred to me that I could embed them in a sheet of poly clay, with other suitable and unsuitable objects. That is how my most recent pendant things were born. </div>
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I am reluctant to sell them, but am not sure what else I would do with them. I may see how difficult or otherwise it is to make brooches, or try to find a way of hanging them on some kind of string/thing/whatever to make a pendant necklace, I dunno. No hurry. I do need to source some more figures though. Ebay is the place by the look of it. They ain't cheap though.</div>
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That's all very well, but what about the fancy lawnmower? I hear you cry. . Well, my wife finally got so fed up with having to ask me to start the old lawnmower as she couldn't muster the physical oomph to do it herself, that she went out and bought a small, sit on lawn tractor type thing. One that starts with key. It's red and shiny. . . It also doesn't cut shorter than 3mm, which is a bit long for a lawn. The solution to this problem? Let the tyres down! Only a bit, but it brings the blades lower and makes a nice neat cut. . . Technology eh?</div>
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Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-80266671069213633382020-05-27T12:53:00.003-07:002020-05-27T12:53:54.943-07:00Lockdown - Overthinking, Goslings, Socially Isolating Chickens and Stripey Stuff<div style="text-align: center;">
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So, two and a half months since my last blog post. That must be a record. Not one to be proud of I have to say. (I initially wrote 'two and a half moths' until I noticed and corrected it, still, I like the image it throws up. . . )<br />
I suppose the enforced limbo we are all in has eroded any sense of urgency I might have felt. Also, feeling guilty about not posting for weeks doesn't help. How can I<i> <b>possibly </b></i>post after so long a gap? etc. etc.<br />
Oh well, I am doing it now aren't I?<br />
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The trouble is, for us, so far this lockdown has actually been rather pleasant, which is something else to feel guilty about. We have had fine weather, a lovely big garden to spend time in, access to pleasant country walks and good, responsible neighbours. I know, sickening. . . And it's so much like the everyday existence of self employed freelancers working from home, which is all I have ever done, that it doesn't even feel even vaguely disconcerting. (OK, the supermarket trip is a bit weird with 2 metre distances and masks etc but everyone is pretty chilled and considerate. I tend to go at 8.30 a.m. to avoid any queues.)<br />
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I feel guilty mentioning it, which makes no sense really. Feeling guilty doesn't actually help anybody else. You can end up feeling guilty because you feel you ought to, that somehow it's not right <i>not </i>to feel guilty considering the predicament some people find themselves in. Somehow it's the least you can do. You find yourself feeling guilty for even wanting to not feel guilty. . . Like it's a social responsibility to make yourself suffer because others are suffering. Not that affluent middle class guilt is in any way comparable to real suffering you understand. Anyway, I've been round this convoluted moral dilemma enough times for one blog post so I'll stop wittering on about it. Apart from to say that of course I miss seeing friends and family, I miss pubs, I miss meals out, I miss finding cool things in charity shops and I miss playing music with others, but as long as they are just deferred pleasures and not permanently withdrawn ones I can cope without them.<br />
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Obviously we wish the situation was different for those unfortunate enough to have been directly affected by this potentially lethal virus, and send them our sincere sympathy/empathy/thoughts/prayers/support. Meanwhile we will keep our heads down and maintain social distance and all the things a certain government advisor has shamelessly ignored recently. I'm not even going there apart from to say 'Grrrrrrrrrr!'. . .<br />
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As I am talking about domestic stuff, I'm pleased to say that the two geese have done themselves proud and produced two wonderful, greeny yellow, fluffy goslings. ( I don't have pics, sorry) They have even reinvented themselves as good parents, the goslings are about two and a half weeks old and are thriving, unlike last year when the poor little things lasted two days.<br />
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The chickens are also in lockdown. We have confined them to the orchard and the pond area, as they were trashing the spring flowers and threatening the well being of anything that might show it's head in the veg patch. (and pooing everywhere) There is more than enough room for the four of them and they are still amongst the most environmentally fortunate chooks you will ever come across so don't waste any sympathy on them ;-)<br />
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My jewellery components have had a few ups and downs, but that is more to do with general retail variation and the fact that I make different stuff every week which will either tickle someone's fancy or not. Recently things have been going nicely, so that is one more thing that hasn't changed much in this time of lockdown. They say that craft supplies are undergoing a boom as people turn to crafting to alleviate the boredom of lockdown. Not so sure about that in my case as I sell to a variety of repeat customers with only the occasional new buyer appearing. Whatever, I am still busy making stuff, so again, situation almost normal. .<br />
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I have been experimenting as usual, and producing variations on tried and tested things too. The images throughout this post are in chronological order, (apart from the first one) just showing some of the things I have made and mostly sold in the last two and a half months. Enjoy ;-)<br />
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I will post again soon, probably. . . ;-)<br />
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Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-55291548920839289572020-03-15T04:30:00.000-07:002020-03-15T04:32:22.751-07:00The World is Suddenly a Different Place. . <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, strange times. . . Surreal times. The fragility of the links that hold everything together are suddenly exposed, although I guess this fragility was obvious enough if we chose to look in that direction -which of course we didn't.<br />
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Not that it has had much effect yet round here. Nothing tangible, which makes it like a kind of Phoney War, everything is fine and normal until the first bomb drops on your house. But the advice is to practice Social Distancing, which makes a lot of sense if slowing the rate of infection is the idea, which it should be. It will be weird not seeing friends or family for weeks on end but it has to be done.<br />
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It did occur to me that when some people have survived the virus and are no longer infectious, they can act with impunity, mustering in confined spaces at will, having wild parties and dancing on the tables while us virtuously uninfected types lurk in isolation, looking on and muttering darkly over our stacks of toilet roll.<br />
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A friend of mine joked that he will be 'self oscillating'. . . Which, I pointed out to him, could get messy if you need to go to the bathroom. . . Could an outbreak of mass self oscillation explain the panic buying of toilet paper?<br />
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I am foreseeing complications on the bead making and selling front looming. I have to weigh up the risks of standing in a line at the Post Office, and whether customers are prepared to wait indefinitely for their orders if I decide not to risk it. I need to mail stuff in person to get proof of postage which covers me in the event of things getting lost in the post. I may have to risk not being covered, and print out postage labels online. Also, are people still going to be buying components when they perhaps won't have venues to sell their finished work? It's all very up in the air right now. All I can do is carry on and see what happens. It's all any of us can do I think.<br />
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But doom and gloom and viruses aside for a moment, Spring is in the air, I heard a skylark singing yesterday (who knew skylarks could sing Paul McCartney songs? groan. . . ) sorry, I also heard a chiffchaff (a kind of warbler) for the first time this year. The geese are getting frisky in the pond, and as a consequence a goose egg appeared on a patch of mud at the pond's edge. Not in the nest box thing nearby, or on anything resembling a nest of any kind. . The female goose showed no sign of wanting to sit on it or any awareness of her motherly duties. So the egg is forlornly sitting there, being rained on etc and obviously not going to progress to the point of hatching. I thought birds had strong instincts concerning that sort of thing. Evidently not these ones, silly creatures!<br />
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So we will be Social Distancing and continuing our own brand of Self Isolation, not because we have symptoms of covid19 but because we have both been freelancers working from home for the last three decades at least, and that kind of social isolation (at least for five days in the week) is completely normal for us and we wouldn't have it any other way. . .<br />
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Please stay safe and well and keep up your Social Distancing whenever possible to give the health care system every chance to keep up with things as they transpire ;-)<br />
And as the legendary comedian Dave Allen used to say, "May your God go with you".<br />
Jon xJon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-77094716880727118962020-02-19T06:47:00.001-08:002020-02-19T06:47:52.109-08:00Stringing things up, Issues with. Advice gratefully received. . .<div style="text-align: center;">
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Well, having created and constructed a good few interesting pendant focal pieces, in my view anyway, I have been mulling over and wrestling with the problem of how to present them as finished necklaces, if that's not too loose a term.<br />
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I can make pendant things that look great on their own, and that are recognisably my work, but as soon as I try to put them on a string/chain/other, they look kind of wrong and somewhat amateurish in a worrying sort of way. It is occurring to me that the choice of stringing/hanging material is a lot more important than I had previously thought. It might just be that am not used to seeing my work in this way, and that I just need to get used to it, but I don't think it's that simple.<br />
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A necklace is a construction in it's own right, I know that, and admire the work of the many necklace constructors whose work I see online etc, but it's hard to echo what they do in my work. By that I mean that the take away I get from others' work is that the combination of beads/items and string/chain/whatever just looks 'right'. It suits their creative identity/aesthetic. The choice of carrier suits the thing carried if you get me drift. I find it hard to find and nail down that relationship in my work. Sometimes sticking something on a chain might work, sometimes something more complex and visually demanding might work too. The issue is working out, or feeling instinctively which approach suits which pendant/bead/etc.<br />
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I have made some small progress I think, in that often my work is quite bold and somewhat eccentric, with industrial overtones ;-). Therefore, the choice of 'string' should echo that. To that end I have made chain links out of bits of the wire grid i like to use, from copper wire, and from upcycled steel wire, basically a short length of wire with a loop at each end, which can join onto one or more others. These work OK, but aren't suitable to go round the back of the neck, for comfort and possible allergic reasons. Therefore a piece of chain, suede cord or suchlike needs to be added. This never seems to look quite right to me.<br />
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OK, I could spare myself the grief and just sell the pendants themselves, should anyone want them, (and I have done that quite often) but I see my dilemma as a challenge, something I should be able to surmount. Then of course I will have the issue of actually trying to sell the resulting jewellery, but that is something to be addressed when the time comes ;-)Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-3654425789133681222020-01-24T04:20:00.000-08:002020-01-24T04:20:48.316-08:00Pruning, which has no relation to Prunes, Swords, Mixing Wires and Getting Back into it All<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, the weather got a bit wintery for a change! In a good way, it's been dismally dull and wet for weeks round here. Steady light rain and the kind of dull light that makes you feel like you never actually woke up fully, so you mooch around, squelching across the mud and moss that may revert to something like a lawn one day if it ever stops raining, grumbling, mumbling and tripping over the chickens, feeling like your battery failed to recharge properly and you left your 'oomph' in your other trousers. .</div>
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But a few days ago it was crisp and bright. Cold, (comparatively of course - this is the south eastern bit of the UK after all) but we had bright sunshine for two whole days, which meant it was actually pleasant to be outside. This was convenient as there was work to be done in the garden. </div>
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The apple trees needed pruning and as it was the right time of year for such activity I got the ladder out and set to work. I might have been a bit too enthusiastic as when I looked up a Youtube vid or two after the event, (I know!) it seems I cut some of the new growth back a bit too much. Still, I got rid of the millions of spindly vertical bits called 'watershoots', that produce neither fruit nor blossom, so if we get fewer apples this year than we potentially might it's no great loss as we usually get far too many anyway. . . </div>
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It's the cooking apple tree up next, Bramleys, lovely great big buggers they are. We get shedloads of them, maybe I should start up an apple pie factory or something. </div>
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Anyway, pruning aside, I have been back in my workshop making stuff. I think people, including me in my capacity as a person, are a bit tired of the chunky rectangular image transfer stuff I've been making lately, so I will leave that alone for a while I think. </div>
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I am busy making some spike related things. Spikes with a slight difference, as I am using upcycled wire instead of copper for the bails and loops. Something I have done before but not quite in this way. I have been making Swords. . . Cool huh?</div>
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Oh yeah, before I knocked the image trans stuff on the head temporarily I messed around with using thin copper wire wrapped round some of the upcycled wire I like to use as bails etc.<br />
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I liked the effect, so I have integrated it into the Sword thing. . .<br />
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Selling wise, things have been a bit slow but it's all going OK, with a few things actually selling on Etsy believe it or not. Maybe I have ceased to be invisible there for a brief time, who knows?<br />
Anyway, onwards and upwards, or at least not backwards and downwards, the climate is taking that journey on it seems. . . ;-(<br />
Until next time, whenever that might turn out to be,<br />
be well,<br />
cheers<br />
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This Holiday/Christmas/Other break, as well as being a pleasant bit of family time and chilling out time, has been quite useful as regards the space it provided for contemplation and for gaining perspective about creative work. For me anyway.</div>
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I don't feel massively renewed and refreshed necessarily, but I do feel that I've gained a bit of insight into my creative process that might help me, 'going forward' as they say.<br />
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I have come to realise that I hold things back. This seems to be out of a sense of anxiety.<br />
It appears that I need to have something 'in reserve' to bring out if 'all else fails'. Something that serves, in my mind at least, as a kind of creative insurance policy. A fence between me and the void. . .<br />
It's not the most sensible thing to do, as whatever it is that I have in reserve may not be the killer sure thing I imagine it to be at all. And if it fails then that's my supposed parachute shot full of holes and me making an unpleasantly close and very swift acquaintance with the cold hard ground. . .<br />
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It all comes from fear I think, deep down somewhere there is a fear of . . Well, I'm not sure quite what. Not failure as such, maybe fear of finding out that I was delusional all along and really my work is total rubbish ;-) Or that those that have approved of and followed my work will suddenly realise that they were also delusional. . .<br />
(Actually that fear, at various levels of severity, is quite common amongst artists I have spoken to over the years. Rationality is not us. . .)<br />
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This revelation regarding undue and unnecessary retention of creative work came about from a growing and persistent feeling of being blocked, by myself. Not wanting to make something because it wasn't what I felt I 'should be' making. Or not wanting to put something up for sale as 'nobody would like it' or 'it doesn't feel right' or because now is not the time somehow. Though exactly what I think I am waiting for and why is by no means clear.<br />
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(Beware of the concept 'should be', it's you imagining an outside observer judging your behaviour and output. No such judgemental outside entity exists and even if it did, you could never accurately predict such an entity's opinions. So don't go there. . . Easily said mind. .)<br />
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This led me to notice that I was holding various components back when making pieces, being retentive about some particular found or made object because whatever idea I had at that moment about how to use it might not be the best use for it. It wouldn't be using it to its best advantage. Maybe I would have a better idea at some amorphous and unspecified time in what is generally known as 'The Future'.<br />
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It all comes from a place of fear and lack, as if I will never find or make another object as good. As if the supply of interesting and usable objects in the world will run out, or as if inspiration is actually finite.<br />
This mindset is obviously unhelpful, but thankfully, once noticed can be combatted.<br />
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In future, I intend to be less uptight about what I make, I shall use that 'precious' component and then move on. I will always have new ideas and find interesting things to mess around with. The world is an abundant place ;-)<br />
And if I am delusional about my work's value to anybody other than me, well so be it. I'll fall off that cliff when I come to it. . .<br />
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I think these creative semi-crises are part of the creative process to some extent, and follow the classic bell curve of slow build up, tipping point/revelation and then slow build up again. Despite the psycho drama, work gets made, some of it not bad, I hope ;-)<br />
Happy new Year,<br />
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<br />Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-62751697994964715062019-12-04T05:46:00.000-08:002019-12-04T05:46:38.621-08:00Well, Well. . That Went Well. . . <div style="text-align: center;">
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So after all the hand wringing and anxiety about the showcase thingy, it turned out to be a big success. A bit nuts to be honest, but in a good way ;-) So I shall most likely do another one, but not for a couple of months I don't think. Meanwhile I shall carry on listing a few things on Tuesdays and Thursdays, without expecting much to happen, it being holiday season and all.<br />
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As for us, we have no plans for Christmas yet - no idea what to get anybody for presents and no idea what we want them to get us. So no change there ;-) Funny how when you're young, you have a list of wonderful things you desperately want, but when you get older, there really isn't anything much (in anyone's price bracket!) that you want at all. Hence all those 'Gifts' you see everywhere. Things ultimately destined for the back of the cupboard but which at least tick Auntie Emma off the Xmas prezzie list. . . Cynical? Moi?<br />
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And of course we have this bleedin election coming up. I shall vote but it will be a waste as 'the other lot' are very safe in this neck of the woods, (whatever a neck of the woods actually is).<br />
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It amazes me that with all the headline writers in the world, that nobody has used the phrase 'Brexistential Crisis', not that I have seen anyway. Slackers. I thought of it on day one. God I'm so witty. . . ;-)<br />
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Meantime I shall ignore the News and stick to acceptable music radio stations like 6 Music (a UK thing) and occasionally check the BBC World Service, which is a good reminder that there is a World out there full of people with very different concerns to us, but which are just as valid. He said, piously polishing his halo.<br />
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Bead and component work wise, just to wind down from the showcase frenzy of a few days ago I have been making a few simple, textured disk beads using one or two of the small, wooden, Indian printing blocks I have accumulated in the last few years.<br />
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My simple technique was to squash a small ball of poly clay into one tex block with the flat, reverse side of another one to give me a deeply textured, slightly irregular, disk with a flat back. The inspiration being those old stamped coins from Roman and Saxon times (or before in other parts of the world).<br />
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On some of them I pressed the back of a block onto the raised texture to flatten it out slightly and to give it a faint wood grain texture.<br />
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After baking, I messed around with alcohol inks, gilder's paste and maybe some discreet sanding and waxing and some rubbing to emphasise the resulting textures. In case you were interested. . .<br />
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No domestic drama on the home front since the 'wheelbarrow incident', thankfully. Though the down side of life being relatively uneventful is that it doesn't make for very interesting blog posts. . .<br />
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Though, as we appear to be living in 'Interesting Times' right now, uneventful is good.<br />
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Until next time, Jon x<br />
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<br />Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-63111603019209613662019-11-25T12:30:00.001-08:002019-11-25T12:30:59.896-08:00The Ups and Downs of Retail, A New Venture and The Wife in a Wheelbarrow. .<div style="text-align: center;">
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A bit of a gap between posts again, so sorry about that. I am slowly getting into the habit of blogging again. I heard on the radio that blogging is becoming more popular again, I wouldn't know about that, not exactly having my finger on the pulse of these things these days, but if true I applaud this trend.<br />
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Anyway, having been thoroughly spoiled by my work selling really well on Facebook over the last 12 months or so, I have had a couple of evening listing sessions that have been somewhat lacklustre. Not that I actually expect to sell out of my ten or twelve items every time but I must have got used to it at some level because I felt rather bereft when only two or three things sold. Bloody artists fragile ego again ;-)<br />
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Well, retail has its ups and downs I'm told.<br />
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The worrying part of this for me is that I just signed myself up for a 'Showcase' on the 26th at -<br />
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And if levels of interest are as low as the last week it could be a bit of a disappointment.<br />
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The other thing is that it starts at what is a reasonable time for those in the USA but a silly time for me here in the UK. I'm not going to be kicking off my show at flamin midnight, thank you very much. I'll be in bed asleep! So I will list when I get up in the morning, which will be when most of my USA buyers will be in bed asleep. . . Sigh. . . And it finishes at midnight the next day, which is early evening for USA people, and probably the time they start to go online. Moan, groan, whinge. . .<br />
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So not ideal but we'll see what happens. I have made some very nice things to list so if you are around on the 26th Nov any time between 7.30 a.m. UK time (2 or 3 a.m. approx. various USA time zones) until midnight UK time (6 or 7 p.m. various US time zones) check it out.<br />
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Just to add to stress levels, my wife slipped on a bit of tiled floor and hurt her foot badly, she couldn't put weight on it and it started to swell up. As it was Sunday night we decided to wait and hit the A&E dept at the local hospital the next day if it was still bad in the morning. The thing was, she had to get over to her studio, across the yard to use her computer to email an Art group that were expecting her to take a workshop the next day. Obviously it had to be cancelled.<br />
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We don't have any crutches lying about the place, so we tried a walking stick, no good, a broom, improvised as a crutch, no good. . . I was debating trying to give her a piggy back across the yard when we remembered the wheelbarrow ;-)<br />
So I trundled her across the yard. Luckily it was a clean wheelbarrow, and luckily we are not overlooked. . . It did add some levity to a somewhat fraught occasion.<br />
We got to A&E the next day and she had x-rays etc. Nothing broken thank heaven but she needed crutches for a day or two.<br />
I also managed to put my back out helping her get around, but not badly. . Fun times ;-)<br />
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Anyway, on a positive note, our pond has been refilling in all the wet weather we have been having. it almost completely dried out in the summer, which was worrying. The geese weren't happy either. So now we have a reason to feel pleased when it rains, and so do the geese ;-)<br />
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Wish me luck with the showcase, and have a good Thanksgiving all you USA folks.<br />
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Jon xJon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-83885939128816371522019-11-01T09:27:00.000-07:002019-11-01T09:27:46.580-07:00Zen Chickens and Polymer Clay Comparisons. . .<div style="text-align: center;">
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A few weeks ago I was running low on Cernit, my go to Poly clay brand, (go to for no other reason than I tried it out and thought it was perfectly Ok so I stayed with it), but there was none to be had from my usual suppliers for some odd reason.<br />
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So, undeterred, I bought some Fimo pro instead, as it's well thought of etc and a bit cheaper than Cernit I think. I would check that last statement but can't be bothered. . .<br />
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Whatever. . . I thought I would just give you my thoughts on Fimo Pro vs Cernit if you are interested. Well, you are going to get them even if you're not interested. .<br />
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Cernit is a very tough and flexible clay, it has a fair amount of give to it and can be used to make quite thin things without becoming too fragile to work with. Fimo Pro is also tough, but has a different feel. It's less flexible, stiffer without actually being brittle.<br />
I would be wary of going too thin with it though perhaps.<br />
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The two types of bead I have been making recently have been my 'Turned Look' spikes and 'spindles', and my image transfer tile beads. I am finding that I have to be a bit more careful when using Fimo for my turned beads than I do when using Cernit, due to its less forgiving nature.<br />
I think I will use Cernit for those type of beads going forward.<br />
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I found that Fimo Pro was nice to use for image transfer work on flat, tile beads due to it's relative stiffness and tendency to let me produce slightly more refined edges when shaping them. Cernit's more 'chewey' quality made it feel a bit less exact somehow.<br />
A subjective view for sure and not really discernible to the eye I don't think, but that's how it felt when working with it. I will use Fimo Pro for my image trans work in future. Truth to materials and all that ;-)<br />
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They both take an image well enough, Fimo perhaps needing a more gentle touch to avoid the image coming away when transferring using the water and rubbing method.<br />
The issue of the image getting sticky while transferring is slightly less of an issue with Fimo than Cernit, (though a mixture of Cernit Trans and regular Cernit takes an image well. The image seems to stick to it better. I must try some Fimo trans sometime).<br />
Fimo produces finer dust when sanded I think, it seems 'dryer' than Cernit. I wear a facemask when sanding whichever brand I am using.<br />
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Dunno if this has been of any use to anyone, it's all subjective stuff and your mileage may vary of course. I was surprised that I noticed differences in brands of poly clay, I must have developed an unconscious Cernit bias in technique over the years ;-)<br />
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I like both brands and now I have located some more Cernit, I can use them to their particular strengths. I did try some Fimo Soft, but that was pretty horrible, on a par with Sculpey Original in my opinion, only more brittle and 'dusty'. OK for bead cores but not anything that needs to be robust I don't think.<br />
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Oh yeah, Zen Chickens. . . No not a new band I discovered or a name for people afraid of particular meditation philosophies, let me elucidate. .<br />
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Our 4 chickens have the run of the garden and the orchard and are very tame. They like to gather around our feet if we are sitting on the terrace to eat, like we do in summer quite often. My wife has a habit of giving them her almost empty cereal bowl to finish off. They love this and all tuck in. . .<br />
I noticed that there is one particularly resonant ceramic bowl with a pleasing note to it. When four chickens are pecking at it at random intervals it sounds like one of those 'singing bowls' you can get in those new age shops, as an aid to meditation, only not as soothing ;-)<br />
Anyway, I think I should record it or film it sometime and put it online as a meditation aid ;-) So there you have it, Zen Chickens.<br />
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see you next time, Jon x<br />
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Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-7160516449843274932019-10-14T07:52:00.000-07:002019-10-14T08:00:45.376-07:00Been a long "Month". . . ;-) The Perrennial Sticky Subject - Pricing - Greed, Guilt and Overthinking<div style="text-align: center;">
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Well, I signed off my last post with the words, 'See you in a month' or something along those lines. Yeah right. . . ;-)<br />
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I kind of lost a bit of enthusiasm and motivation for writing about what I have been doing. I just settled in to making stuff and selling it on Facebook, and repeat. . Things I could have talked about but never felt the urge to do so. I still posted on Instagram, and kept my Etsy shop ticking over but my blog was sidelined.<br />
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So, six months later, I am making the effort to post again.<br />
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Why? Well. . .<br />
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I am overthinking myself into a semi-catatonic state about pricing and the seeming necessity to justify same. And I need to work out what is bothering me and why. . . And I need to bore you with it too.<br />
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The trouble is that when I make one of my larger, assemblage style pieces, and feel that said piece is extra pretty damn special I want the price to reflect that, but don't feel I can get away with charging the price I feel like charging. Often I end up not putting the piece up for sale to avoid having to worry about how much to charge etc. . . Then it just sits there looking at me. . . ;-)<br />
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It feels like I am literally asking too much of my buyers. It doesn't feel 'right'. That it's somehow mercenary and demeaning to link financial value to my subjective opinion of a piece. I'm an <i>artist</i>, I should be above that worldly commercial stuff ;-)<br />
But then again that is a pretty silly, naive, and unrealistic angle to take on what is a commercial decision. It betrays contradictory emotions about money and creativity. I make stuff in order to sell it, or at least with that possibility very much under consideration, I enjoy the process of selling and get a kick out of making, not huge, but certainly useful amounts of money every week, so why do I feel it is somehow wrong to want to ask for more when I deem it appropriate?<br />
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Is it lack of confidence? Because I might be wrong, and the piece in question is actually a load of rubbish and not special at all.<br />
In which case nobody will buy it of course. .<br />
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Who do I think I am? Do I have an over inflated idea of what my creative efforts are worth?<br />
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Not wanting to appear greedy is definitely one reason. But then who is judging?<br />
If something is considered too expensive nobody will buy it. Duh. . .<br />
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Another reason is that I seem to closely identify with the commercial consideration of the buyer. After all, they have to sell whatever they make using my work, at a profit, and I worry that they will be left with an expensive piece of jewellery that nobody will buy due to the price they have to charge, which will be all my fault! ;-)<br />
In which event, of course, they will curse my name forever and never buy from me again.<br />
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So I feel somehow responsible for other people's actions and decisions, which is also silly, naive and unrealistic. . . though possibly faintly endearing, or just annoying. It annoys me!<br />
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So where are we? In a tangled mess, that's where. .<br />
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As you will no doubt have worked out ages ago, the obvious course of action this hand wringing and overthinking is pointing to is to shut the heck up, get over myself, charge whatever I feel is right and take the consequences.<br />
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Sorted. . .<br />
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Thank you for indulging my tortuous mental processes, it's been useful for me anyways ;-)<br />
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See you next time, could be sooner than you think. . Less than six months anyway.<br />
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After a few months of working on other things, I had an urge to make some more spikes using my turned look technique. They always sold well so that was another reason to return to them. </div>
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I never quite know what colours I will use until I start painting, and because I use alcohol inks I have the option of layering colours and diffusing them with rubbing alcohol. You can get nice blends this way.</div>
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The other cool thing about alcohol inks is that they subtly and not so subtly change colour when diluted. They seem to be dye based and have a sort of base colour that lies under the main colour which is revealed when you paint over it with rubbing alcohol, or a paler ink colour. For instance, some shades of brown revert to a sort of light blue, which seems strange but can look good.</div>
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I also find that wiping the ink off gently with a cloth reveals this under/base colour too. It also is a way of softening the hard line that forms where two areas of ink meet. It's fun to experiment with this, and that way learn a bit about the quirks of the medium. You can then use said quirks to your advantage.</div>
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It's a bit drastic at first but a gentler touch makes the effect a bit more subtle. I'm a bit obsessed with it right now so various distressed looking beads and spikes will no doubt appear in my listings before long. . .</div>
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Oh yeah, and I also found a good background to photograph things against. An old roofing slate from the treasure trove of inspiration that lurks behind our shed. . ;-) It makes colour matching in Pshop or equivalent so much easier too, white backgrounds are OK but they are a pig to get right colour wise. So many of my shots against white had a pinky tinged or a bluey tinged background even though the bead colour was pretty accurate.</div>
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Thanks for checking out the way my work is heading. More in about a month's time.</div>
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<br />Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-85708178078561349322019-02-20T01:41:00.000-08:002019-02-20T01:41:08.888-08:00Bugs and Birthdays, Image Transfer Revisited Yet Again and Necklace Prevaricating. . .<div style="text-align: center;">
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It seems that Monthly posts will be the way to go for this blog. I intended to keep the posts coming every ten days or so, but that hasn't happened, so monthly it is. I hope. . .<br />
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There has been a particularly nasty flu bug going round our part of the UK this year. And although normally I am one of those people who 'Doesn't get ill', it knocked me for six. Admittedly, not for long, It was an intense night of constant coughing and no sleep at all, followed by a day of feeling 50% less ill but very sleep deprived, then a slow recovery over the next two weeks. I am back to about 85% normal but my work, the celebration of my wife's birthday, Valentine's day and my birthday were seriously disrupted. . .<br />
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But we did manage to get away for a night on Valentine's day, to this place. . .<br />
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Anyway, back to something approaching normal now, cross fingers.<br />
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I have been getting back into making image transfer tile beads using my digital images. Trying to let the images speak for themselves a bit more than I used to. I made some bigger, more confidently patterned beads.<br />
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My idea was to sell them as plain tile beads, without bails or frames etc. This wasn't entirely successful. I think buyers like the extra element that a wire frame can add. I admit that I do too.<br />
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I tried deliberately not distressing the images, in line with my intention to let them speak for themselves as mentioned above, but I couldn't ignore the fact that my image beads look so cool when they have been knocked about a bit and scratched up, so I gave in to my instinct and gave them the treatment.<br />
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The black and white image beads seemed to respond best to this treatment. Especially once attached to a suitable upcycled wire frame.<br />
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I did discover something faintly interesting though. I had a small, bright, abstract, printed image in my image drawer that I thought would make a good tile bead. So I did the usual thing of placing it face down on poly clay, wetting the back and rubbing to transfer the image. it was only then that realised that it was an inkjet print and not a laser one. It was on high quality matt paper so the image stayed crisp and didn't run. Once all the backing paper was rubbed off I was left with a very thin but dull looking layer adhering to the polymer clay. It didn't look very good so I picked at a corner and found the whole layer just peeled off leaving the image on the poly clay. Unfortunately the image left on the poly clay was only about half as bright as the original print, but at least I got a result from inkjet paper, which I didn't think was possible. So image trans from inkjet paper is possible by the wetting and rubbing method, up to a point. As the tile bead looked quite old already I distressed it up a bit, which made it look like a very battered artifact from an alien civilisation or somesuch.<br />
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I know, but I did<i> </i>say only '<i>faintly</i> interesting'. . .<br />
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On the necklace front, I made some somewhat more conventional bead ones, using some of my seriously grungy, rustic, crackle glaze effect, ancient look technique beads. I am quite pleased with them, and will probably try them for sale quite soon. Most likely in my own Facebook selling group, once I have created one that is. . .<br />
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Until next time. .<br />
Jon x<br />
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Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-51728610022262491632019-01-18T03:50:00.001-08:002019-01-18T03:50:07.815-08:00Having a Bit of a Turn, Going For The Throat, Getting it in the Neck, Hanging by a Thread, etc etc. . .<br />
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In a moment of inspiration, I actually thought of something for my wife to get me for Christmas just passed. I find that just one of the many downsides of being all grown up (technically at least) is that you struggle to find anything you actually want for Christmas. Anything within a reasonable price bracket anyway. Grown ups are so boring. . .<br />
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Talking of which, I actually asked my kids to get me some slippers this year, sheesh, what <i>happened</i> to me??<br />
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But contrary to expectation, this festive season found me prepared.<br />
"I'll have one of those cheap Chinese micro-lathes" I said. "Please."<br />
And that's what I got ;-)<br />
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I've only had a bit of a play with it so far, but it's pretty good. All I want to do with it is cut groovy grooves in polymer clay, or wooden beads, which is relatively undemanding. I tried it on some wooden beads I picked up in a charity shop a while ago, and once I had stopped the bead from slipping too much it worked OK. (I need something called a 'drive centre', I'm looking into it but for now I am using a countersink from my power drill which works up to a point. .)<br />
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<br />I made some experimental, randomly grooved beads, which I then painted with alcohol inks and varnished. I like how they came out even though they soaked up the varnish somewhat. I will make some plain poly clay tube beads to experiment on next. As well as scouring the charity shops for more wooden beads to mess up of course.<br />
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The other thing I have been slowly venturing towards is making actual necklaces using my eccentric grid based pendant focal things. Rather than selling them on for other people to have all the the fun, I have been considering how I would hang them myself, in a way that is a bit more arty and considered than just sticking them on a bit of chain.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Modelled by Ethel, the dummy retrieved from the local dump for £2 a year or two ago.The last of the big spenders, me. .</td></tr>
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Well, that said, I have actually stuck one or two on some simple chain, but chain that consists of large, artily crude, home made (by me) links that suit the vibe of the piece. Using plain copper or upcycled garden wire hammered flat(ish) for strength and because I like how it looks.<br />
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I am encouraged by the results and am considering trying to sell some pieces. I admit to feeling somewhat intimidated by this prospect, as the subject of price rears it's contentious head. . .<br />
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Also, I am not entirely sure where to sell. I need to research some Facebook groups I think and ask around for some feedback and advice. Any thoughts you may have on the matter would be gratefully received ;-)<br />
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So here are some more things I have been working on. . .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Electronic components, a poly clay im trans square and a plastic railway figure</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit long maybe?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two fuses and a big electronic whatsit in a nice shade of blue</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copper links this time</td></tr>
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<br />Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-76542299847245022592019-01-03T04:17:00.001-08:002019-01-03T04:20:21.139-08:00Blog Neglect Hits new Heights, Ideas are Everywhere, Including the Strange Case of The Mirrors and The Guinea Fowl, <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">The New Year's Eve gig we played at our local pub had a masked theme, so I spent a happy half hour knocking up this fake primitive mask out of some packaging I had lying around and some acrylic paints. I couldn't really see to play while wearing it, so it didn't stay on long ;-)</td></tr>
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Well, first things first - Happy New Year!<br />
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May it be full of love, light and creativity and all that stuff. . .<br />
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I have been pretty busy with all sorts of things over the last month or two, and as a consequence, not really in the mind set to write blog posts. When you are busy, some things have to be put aside, and as blog posts are a kind of ephemeral extra, they tend to be victim number one.<br />
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Victim number two, though by no means an ephemeral extra, has been bead making. I took the opportunity to take a break, as cramming in the the odd hour or two in my workshop, between serious DIY and catering for Xmas guests is not really useful or satisfying.<br />
A break meant that I could take stock and do the New Year thing of taking a step back and looking at where I am and what direction I might take next. This break also meant sacrificing a couple of week's potential earnings, but you can't make the proverbial omelette without breaking eggs. . . Well, you could try, but it wouldn't be any entirely sane person's idea of an omelette really. . .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Some of the serious DIY I have been busy with. Faux panelling with corbels and bits. The right hand door has since been replaced and stained etc, and the wall behind the clock is a gingery dark brown. Very cozy and old looking.</td></tr>
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So here I am, somewhat shamefacedly blogging again. Thank you for your patience ;-)<br />
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As you may have noticed over the months, my work often goes off on tangents, triggered by something I just discovered by accident, or just came across in the course of day to day life. Sometimes a process, sometimes an object or type of material. I have developed an instinct for noticing potentially useful happy accidents, and due to the positive response I get, the confidence to pursue them further.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mirror shard, poly clay backing, blue alcohol ink, copper bail</td></tr>
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So when I accidentally broke the mirror we had put out in the garden for the Guinea Fowl it triggered an idea. . .<br />
Wait a minute, you put out a <i><b>what?</b></i><br />
It's a bit of a long story, but I will be as concise as I can.<br />
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We have two guinea fowl which potter about our large garden and the surrounding area, including neighbour's gardens. Everyone seems OK with this as they are harmless and quite amusing to watch if not to listen to (!).<br />
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Everyone that is except our immediate neighbour who was a touch upset by their habit of pecking at his patio doors and leaving a bit of a mess on his doorstep from time to time. Was there anything we could do about this, he wondered.<br />
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Well, other than having a quiet word with them, which wasn't an entirely serious idea, or getting rid of them, which was out of the question, we couldn't really come up with anything. So we did a bit of research.<br />
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Guinea Fowl are social creatures and live in quite large flocks in the wild, so we wondered if the reason they were hanging out by, and pecking at the windows was because seeing their reflections made them think they were amongst other Guineas.<br />
So as an experiment we put a couple of spare mirrors we happened to have left over from our house move, out in the garden.<br />
This did seem to get their attention, and they did spend time in front of the mirrors so we hoped for the best.<br />
The neighbour hasn't complained since, but he has found a new partner recently, which might have mellowed him out a bit ;-)<br />
(he looks after two boys in their early teens on his own, which must be a bit stressful)<br />
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So crossing fingers, that has amicably solved that little issue.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not easy to photograph any of these mirror thingies. . . The copper came out looking a bit brassy in this pic</td></tr>
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Now, to the happy accident part.<br />
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One of the mirrors was leant against our household compost bin. This bin is rather full and the seams are opening up somewhat. It needs emptying but I figured a well aimed kick might help close it up a bit. Only it wasn't a well aimed kick, it caught the mirror and smashed it to bits. (it was cracked already to be fair, so I didn't claim my 13 years bad luck). I was on my way to the waste bin with said bits when I had a 'Hmmm. . I wonder. ." moment and headed for my workshop instead.<br />
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A mirror is basically a sheet of glass with silver nitrate on the back, so, I figured, that backing could be scraped off in such a way as to make interesting patterns. I carefully broke off some small bits of mirror and reached for the Dremel and the grinding bits.<br />
It worked quite well, (I quickly realised I should wear a face mask as inhaling fine glass dust is not such a great idea.) so I made a few drops/charms using this technique. Extending the process to involve polymer clay backing, both coloured and non coloured.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm enjoying these little 'man' motifs. Kind of petroglyph - ish ;-)</td></tr>
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So there you have it, how Guinea Fowl related disruption can lead to creative innovation of a modest kind ;-)<br />
Which supports my long held belief that the wonder of life has a lot to do with it's random and absurd moments. . .<br />
Until next time, which will not involve a wait as long as the last time,<br />
Cheerio<br />
Jon x<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They combine nicely with other objects, so you may see more of this sort of thing in the next few months</td></tr>
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Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-89951619368827232392018-10-28T09:17:00.001-07:002018-10-28T09:19:54.482-07:00Landmarks Rushing By. . . Domestic Stuff - Who Do We Think We Are? . . ;-) Cats, and of course, Beads/Drops/Thingies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I only noticed the other day, quite by chance, that I had reached an interesting landmark. It was four years ago on the 3rd of October, that I made my first bead sale on Etsy. (and probably about six months before that, that I had encountered my first bit of polymer clay) The beads in the pic were the ones I sold, and the buyer (from the West Coast USA) rejoiced in the rather wonderful surname of Carefree Buffalo. . . Not the sort of surname you get in the UK ;-) </div>
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It only occurred to me later that this might be a native american name, but the image of a carefree buffalo skipping over the prairie, probably wearing my beads, still makes me smile.</div>
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Well, my Etsy shop is still chugging along four years later, on about 1200 sales now, and making beads has become a important part of my life, from being something it would never have occurred to me to get involved in. . . Life huh? ;-) </div>
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Well, I've long ceased to worry about how I got Here from There. </div>
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Embrace the randomness is what I say!</div>
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On the domestic front, I have been planning our living room makeover for a while. We are going for some fancy wood panelling on the wall round the fireplace, complete with some fancy wooden corbels and bits. </div>
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The trouble is that even when you know the dimensions of the things you are ordering, it still comes as a surprise just how flippin big they are sometimes. The wonderfully ornate one in the middle is 10 inches by 11-1/2, which is pretty impressive. It will look amazing, if somewhat over the top. </div>
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Still, us pretentious arty types with high falutin ideas aren't afraid of going over the top on occasion. . . It's going to be at the faux baronial end of the Georgian scale, if you get my drift, All dark wood and knotty grain. . .</div>
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Still on the domestic front, it's a big front. . . Here is what we did to the bathroom. </div>
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The tiles were made by me with my heat press etc. The image is a copy of a William De Morgan tile design that my wife painted very large. I photographed it, sorted it all out on Photoshop to result in a three by three, nine tile design with single tile width edging. The tiles even have a crackle glaze effect, done in photoshop using a photo of a crackled dish of my wife's superimposed over the individual tile images. </div>
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And I did the tiling too. . . I impress myself sometimes! Not too often, mind.</div>
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Staying with the bathroom for a further moment, here is my digital fractal based shower tile design. It's a continuous image representing water in an abstract way. That was another learning curve. </div>
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The three cats we adopted as kittens about a year and a quarter ago are in fine fettle. Now the weather has started to get a bit colder and wetter (we don't half need the rain! It's chucking it down as I write) they spend a lot more time indoors. I sometimes think they are too confident and well adjusted. There are three chairs round the kitchen table and the selfish little beasties are far too relaxed to worry about where I'm going to sit, fah! </div>
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Actually they are joy. Happy, affectionate cats. We love 'em to bits ;-)</div>
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OK, the bit you have been waiting for, maybe. . the Beads/Drops/Dangles/Thingies. . .<br />
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My supply of unemployed beads is still going strong, although I am looking forward to the day when I start making some new polymer clay things instead of sparking ideas off already existent ones. I'm still experimenting and learning, and people still like what I am making, so I am happy.<br />
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Wiggly wire is a new departure<br />
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With it's subtle variations</div>
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And the idea of hanging shapes from bent wire constructions was another one I liked.<br />
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So, as you see, life potters along in an enjoyable and satisfactory way. What could be nicer? ;-)<br />
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It's funny how being busy creating stuff cuts down on my time and motivation for blogging. I feel like I have very little to say other than "Here's my new stuff, hope you like it." . . .<br />
So far my fan base, if I am allowed to call it that, has been very supportive. Most things that I make and list, sell, which is why I have been busy creating stuff and not blogging. . .<br />
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I still find myself strongly responding to old/unemployed beads and found objects, so I haven't been experimenting with new poly clay things lately. I have some ideas backing up in my head, but they will have to join the queue of ideas there already.<br />
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Actually, 'Queue' is the wrong word really, it's a bit more anarchic than that. Whichever idea pushes it's way to the front tends to prevail ;-)</div>
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I still have a supply of unused beads and electronic components to spark ideas from, so I imagine they will keep me going for a while yet. People seem to like what I do so that also encourages me to continue down my particular avenue.</div>
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Connectors is a new departure, though well within the aforementioned theme. . . Things in frames and the relationship between them is still a theme too.</div>
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Asymmetry and offset beads is another thing I still find interesting. It's also a nice way to use image transfer beads that I really liked but that never got much interest as beads in themselves.</div>
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Electronic components in fancy frames is a new variation too. They are so bead like, especially the ones in cool colours.</div>
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A wide frame gives the opportunity to explore repetition, which is something I am interested in too. These small, double sided, chunky, image transfer disk beads got repurposed in this framed connector thingy<br />
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And this Kangaroo bead I made a while ago using a retro rubber stamp from an old set I found in a charity shop got repurposed. I could never work out quite what to do with it before. It might still be less than useful, but we shall see. Maybe it will be big in Australia. . .</div>
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I'm still letting eccentric suggestions have their day. I have no idea what this is, but the organic beads and the bit of left over wire seemed to want to be combined somehow. Go with the flow, is what I say ;-)</div>
Hope you enjoyed the pics and apologies for my lack of things to say. Maybe my art can speak for me even though I have no idea what it's saying . . .Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-72407496502272881002018-09-19T13:44:00.002-07:002018-09-19T13:44:52.464-07:00Just When You Think You're Done With That Idea, Long Furrows and One Thing Leading To Another<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Just when I think a certain creative avenue has run its course, if avenues can be said to do that, something catches my attention and I'm off again. . . This time that something was these old springs from a knackered and previously mouse invaded and occupied armchair we eventually burned on the bonfire in the garden. The metal bits were left in the ashes, looking interesting, so I clipped a few of them out and took them into my workshop. On a whim I used them in a pair of drops/beads/dangles/pendants along with the usual upcycled wire grid stuff. They looked a bit nuts, in a good way, but I listed them on FB anyway as I figured they might raise a smile. They sold, and someone asked me to make two more pairs ;-) so smiles all round. . .</div>
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I've been making variations on a theme rather than indulging in new explorations lately, which was why I was feeling that this furrow had perhaps been ploughed long enough and that I was in danger of repeating myself. But as with the old springs, some older rediscovered beads inspired some more interesting and creatively satisfying explorations.</div>
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Like use of more open wire structures and use of an almost traditional cross shape.</div>
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And the use of incised/scratched African influenced designs and a diagonal grid as a sort of 'loop'.</div>
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And some old faux ivory dragon teeth beads (from an online tut I read), two thin textured flake like beads and two electronic component thingies just seemed to work together once placed on a wire grid. There is something about the formality of a grid that seems to infer logic to the most illogical of combinations. I find this fascinating ;-)<br />
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I have picked up various bits of rabbit skeleton dug up from flowerbeds etc over the last year or so, and kept them aside as I liked the look of them. I also kept the filament from very old bulb/valve which had a mishap and broke. The two just seemed to go together once tied to a rigid frame. No idea how or why. Explanation is an unnecessary distraction. It either 'works' or it don't. If I think it works it stays. . .<br />
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A couple of very recent things. I love how the textured tube bead echoes the grey resistor or whatever it is. And the little black feet make me smile.<br />
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Jon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-74557532077542144762018-09-04T08:18:00.000-07:002018-09-04T08:18:33.054-07:00Enforced Creative Pauses and Their Usefulness. Conclusions. And Retrospective Introspection feeding Changes in Direction<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I'm having a bit of a creative pause right now. Due to my workshop being out of action while a new window is put in. Quite timely, as the sill and the wooden lintel were pretty much powdery crumbly rubbish held together by a thin outer crust and/or layers of paint.<br />
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The old window was old, but nothing like as old as that bit of the house. The walls are brick and therefore comparatively recent, but the ceiling has a big beam across it with smaller ones at right angles every foot or so, the implications of which are that the room must be quite a bit older than the main Georgian/Queen Anne (1780) bit. We guess that it was part of the original building that was built around when the owners got grand notions. Nothing wrong with grand notions btw.<br />
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A fair bit of wood boring beetle activity is in evidence in the beams. Most of it historic, though I am not entirely sure about that. I have treated it with evil, anti-beetle stuff just in case. Someone who knows about these things reckons the timbers are fine so I won't worry unduly. The timbers will outlast me, beetle or no, so I'll pass the issue down the line to the next owners, which will be my kids. . . Thanks Dad. . . ;-)<br />
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Anyway, or 'Any road up' as they say up north, this creative hiatus has got me considering things and weighing things up. This year has been a good, creative time for me. I have been busy making my beads and 'things' in the time available between DIY projects and general life stuff.<br />
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Most of the stuff I have been making has sold, often within a week of me making it, which is great, but means I only have photos to remind me that it ever existed. This is still something I am getting used to. Not a complaint, merely an observation ;-)<br />
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I have spent some of this downtime looking through my photo folders on my computer at what I have produced this year, and finding there were quite a lot of things I didn't remember until I saw the photo. This surprised me somewhat. The result of this retrospective introspection is that the mental list of 'cool things I really must make more of' has just grown exponentially!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">lovely texture pattern</td></tr>
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Looking at past work does make you see how your work has changed without you realising. This is all useful stuff whether you think it has changed for better of for worse. It gives you a chance to re-evaluate your creative decisions and adopt any lessons learned in the process.<br />
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As a result I have made a couple of decisions about what I am doing. I have tried making earrings using my beads and components, but found it a bit frustrating as I was very aware of how much I didn't know about the process or about the practical considerations that shouldn't be ignored. In short, it made me uncomfortable with what I was producing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ok but nothing special, how to find specialness, my ongoing project ;-)</td></tr>
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I enjoy making beads and other components, then leaving it to others to decide how they might be used. I like to play with techniques and processes in an unpressured way. There is not very much to 'get right' when making beads, and if they go 'wrong' I haven't wasted much time or expense.<br />
I may be in my comfort zone making beads, but as yet it isn't restricting me creatively so I see nothing wrong with hanging out there, it's a big place ;-)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">minus ear wires. . . this sort of thing</td></tr>
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So. . . I will be breaking up the earrings I made, which sounds drastic, but mostly means just taking the earring wire off in many cases ;-) and selling the components as just that - components. I may return to earring design at some point, but I will need to get my head into the right space if you know what I mean.<br />
So until the next time,<br />
peace, out ;-) Jon xJon Burgess Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686489273842347796noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5092482901439814613.post-87275845217258489992018-08-20T07:33:00.000-07:002018-08-20T07:33:07.220-07:00Blog Neglect, Cats and Woodpeckers, Old Doubts and Responding to The World<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Well. . . I always start with that word! (Except every now and then when I don't of course). Somehow it makes it all a bit more conversational, as though I had just sat down with a cup of tea and was about to tell you about my day. An imposition of course, as you didn't actually ask, but as is the way with us bloggers, we just carry on as if you did. . . I know, "What are we<i> like</i>?".<br />
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Do they say that anywhere but the UK? I hope not as it should be said in a London accent, preferably South London. . . . Oh yeah, and the three dots thing, I do that a lot too. . . see? . . .<br />
How much do you bet that I'm going to start the next paragraph with "Anyway"?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scratched 'African' influence focal rectangle thing</td></tr>
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Anyway, (Hah!) I have been neglecting this blog, not through choice, but through lack of opportunity, or at least a space of time that wouldn't be 'better spent' doing something else, and also through the paralysis brought on by guilt. It is ironic that the longer you leave something the louder the voice that tells you that you can't possibly do it<i> now</i>, as everyone will have given up and gone home.<br />
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I've got over that one. Mainly coz I have no shame but partly coz you are all nice people and weren't exactly waiting around for my verbal meanderings, but are quite happy to give them the once over when they decide to turn up. I assume anyway. . .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different size grids</td></tr>
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The other morning I got up early, ( I do this a lot, not through choice, but because I am awake and know I won't drift back into sleep however much I would like to. It's an age thing I think as I don't need to get up early anymore being retired and all.) As I was saying, or writing rather, I got up early and glanced out of the window into the back garden, where, in the early morning light, I discerned the cat, (Boudicca, the skinny, wriggly one) wrestling/sparring with something on the lawn. A flippn' Green Woodpecker no less! They aren't small birds, in fact, you may remember the photo of a woodpecker with a weasel seemingly riding on it's back, it was one of those. About three quarters of the size on the cat. . . Anyway, I rushed down and opened the back door ready to rescue the silly thing. Luckily that was enough of a distraction for Boudicca to look away and the bird to scarper, making indignant woodpecker noises. I admit I was also a bit worried for the cat, as those woodpeckers have serious beaks on them. They do frequent our lawn, as despite their name, they much prefer to eat ants out of the ground than indulge in any of this pecking wood business. I think it was an immature one, as I saw a couple of them with their parents on the lawn the other day.<br />
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"The Wildlife Diary of a Polymer Claying Man" eh?<br />
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My 'beads' thing has been going well ;-) I don't think 'beads' is quite the right word for what I am doing at present. I'm not sure what the correct term would be. Jewelry components' is a bit general maybe? 'Thingies' is kind of convenient but doesn't make it sound like I know what I am doing ;-)<br />
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I seem to sell most things I list on FB these days, which is great, but brings up the old doubts about what I should be making. It's the classic 'problem' that rears ugly head (maybe not so much ugly as unwelcome) when things start to sell. Vis - Should I make more of the things that I am pretty sure will sell, or should I continue the creative experimentation and follow wherever it leads, sales or not?<br />
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Not making things that people actually want seems a bit ungrateful somehow, but repeating yourself, and risking losing the spark that makes you <i><b>You</b></i> as it were is not such a good idea either. The real crunch comes when you realise that if do the arty thing rather than the more commercial thing, you are turning down an almost guaranteed chance to make a useful amount of money. . . Not easy for a lifelong freelancer to turn down. It's a good dilemma to have though I suppose.<br />
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I think the answer is to make enough time to do both.<br />
I'm working on it.<br />
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I am also lucky in that I have a client base that seems to be interested and involved in my creative journey, and seem happy to come along with me so to speak. That is pretty special I think ;-)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Texture Squares, new poly clay beads for change<br />
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My recent work has mainly been about upcycling things, beads I put aside for various reasons, and various bits of wire and wire mesh I found stored here and there dating from before this house was ours.<br />
I am always alert to the possibility of reaching a kind of saturation point with particular techniques and concepts, and producing uninspiring work as a consequence. I was feeling like this point was approaching vis a vis wire and poly clay orphans. . .<br />
Until I found some old 'pod' beads I made about three years ago, in one of my bead boxes, and got all inspired again!<br />
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It did make me notice something very obvious, but that had failed to penetrate my thick head, namely, that my work is very much about responding to what is around me. I don't plan anything. I don't sketch or design, I find that it all works better if I let things occur to me and see what happens. I have a general idea, some techniques and an aesthetic worked out, but other than that it's fairly spontaneous. That said, I like to think I have a trained and finely tuned instinct for what 'works' and what doesn't. It's all totally subjective of course, all about me and my personal tastes and preferences, but for better or worse, love it or hate it, take it or leave it, at the end of the day I think I am quite good at being me ;-)<br />
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Well, I'm back from holiday. It turns out that at was as hot back home as it was where we went. Who'd a thunk. . .</div>
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But it did have the Med, lovely food, motor boats to hire and suchlike distractions. It was mostly relaxing. . .</div>
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Although we did just manage to avoid wiping ourselves out on a hired scooter. Scooters just don't handle like motor bikes! Horrible things. I didn't feel fully in control of it, the weight was all wrong, so we turned it in half a day early before something nasty happened. I did manage to drive slowly and sedately into a thorn bush, while negotiating a sharp turn on bumpy track, which was less than fun but not injurious. . . So no more scooters for me, ever.</div>
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The funny thing about holidays is that it takes a day or three to recover from them, which seems to negate the point of them in the first place ;-) It didn't help that the journey home took all day, including a 5 hour coach ride that stopped every bleedin' where between Heathrow and Norwich, and didn't have wi fi, so I missed the World Cup Final. . . Anyway, enough moaning. Well done France, and Croatia, I might add. And England, for a work in progress, we did OK.</div>
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I managed to get back into the workshop for a reasonable length of time, once the recovery from the holiday was complete, and continued my experimentation with bits of wire and neglected beads. Some of which were very successful, and others which were frankly, a bit mad. It was good to relax into an extended bit of creative activity again.</div>
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I got round to listing some stuff on LBA Galleria Elementals at long last, and sold most of them, so that kept me in a good mood. </div>
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Oh yeah, I was forgetting, I tried some earrings on LBA Designers Galleria, but got no takers, some nice comments but nobody flashing the cash. Interesting. I feel that earrings are perhaps a longer term sell than components. Maybe my Etsy shop is the place for them rather than short sharp exposure on FB. Dunno. Maybe they weren't what people actually wanted or they would rather buy the beads and make the earrings themselves. I might try a different group to see if that makes a difference. It's all a learning curve, and none the worse for that.</div>
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Still no rain here. The lawn is brown and the pond is as low as we've seen it. Still, it does mean I don't have to cut the grass. Oh well, it will rain eventually and no doubt we will moan about that too ;-)</div>
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I'll share my most recent makes next time, so until then, have a good one.</div>
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