It’s been 32  years since Mount Saint Helen’s blew! Do you  remember where you  were?  When I woke up this morning I was thinking of the friends I lost and how if it had not been for  being needed at work I would have been up camping with them all.I got called in  just as we were loading the  car and so I let my friends  take my tent and  stove they  headed to the Mountian and I  went to work.

These memories were a prompt that inspired me to  knock something off my to do list!

A year ago this week at LOGIN, I was  asked to make a custom piece of work for Jamil  Moledina. He wanted a place to  display a  cool sci-fi gaget that he used in a photo promoting his novel Tearing the Sky.

After almost a year of  digging through scrap yards I  finally  found the  pieces I  needed to  create his piece. It’s about time stands 21 1/4 inches  tall. I am still experimenting with the sizes of glass for the top  but the hard part is over! Basically all that is left to do is some clean up and then its off to San Francisco!

Special thanks to my  friend and expert welder Denny Croston  for  the use of his shop and for helping to make the construction process a breeze!

$65 – $80

Dig in to Spring!

Great for  indoors or  outdoors. Shovels are  $65 each

 Runaway  Brushes  rescued from the high school drama department!

As spring break comes to an end I am  happy with how i spent my  time. I am excited to get back to  Metal work  and I look forward to   exploring  more new things down the road.

This is the  last of my spring break projects. If you want to  try any of these projects at home  please just give me a shout and I am happy to  share some  great websites that  offer  material and technique suggestions.

April is my month to push myself to  do things out of my comfort zone. I have three new  projects some I like more than others.

The first april project is my Burning Man doll, I am planning to  make her a steam powered  wheel chair since I broke  her leg.She was fun to make but one was enough! She started out to  be  your average  plain Jane.

After a day together she is ready to head to  Burning Man.

Next  I  tried soldering and clay, I am not sure if this is a raven or a crow. It was fun to make  but  I found out that  soldering  galvanized steel is not much fun.

Last but not least I have paint brushes with personalities and attitudes:

I really wish the  details in the  paint showed up. These look  so much better in  real life.

I love watching the birds. This morning while my husband was sleeping I decided to make a bird feeder. This only  took a  couple minutes: I am calling her  Queen of the Bird Seed.

r  All  you  need to  make a  fun feeder is an old barbie or a pine cone, peanut butter and  bird seed.

Take a  butter  knife and  cover the barbie or pine cone with peanut butter.  Then  pour some bird seed on a cookie sheet and roll  Barbie or a pine cone in the  bird seed.

You  will  need to find a  string of some kind to wrap around the top. I used a  string form an old conference  badge.

Here is short  video of Barbies first  suitor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taSDlLF7ZPU&feature=share he has a  foot fetish.

The first in my  new series, Life began in a garden

I  figure with all the yard work I do I should have a cute shovel!

This piece will be a prize for a  poker run in Maple Valley  3/24/2012