My week featured pieces I finished and new projects
started.
The pepper commission
piece is finally hanging on the wall in its new home, being enjoyed by its new
owner.
Commission pieces always
have a little higher level of stress associated with their construction,
because I’m trying to create a concept for a specific person, not just me.
I was delighted to see the peppers with
a smiling owner on Facebook!
It
makes the many hours of poking at peppers all the more rewarding.
My needle felting projects haven’t
stopped, though.
I’m plugging
ahead on the next commission, which features lemons.
I calculated that I needed to make two lemons a day to meet
my deadline of having the piece done by the end of the month.
Right now I’m on track with thirteen
lemons and six slices literally in the bag.
Of course I always need something new and creative going on,
so I was inspired to begin weaving a new piece featuring forgotten treasures
buried underground.
Perhaps the
melting snow and appearing gardens helped prompt the project.
The weaving really represents a lot of
what my life can be like—it’s pretty chaotic under the surface with lots going
on.
On top it all looks calm and
serene.
I’ve incorporated a lot of
objects into the piece that are emblematic of my life right now, such as an old
scrabble tile, a wooden spool, a fishing bobber, wrenches, pulleys, old plastic
toys, and old coins.
I even have one
of the pressed pennies with the Wonderlab logo from an adventure when the boys
were younger.
I think the surface
will feature three emerging crocuses—something happy and spring-like.
Jim likes to have them in the lawn for
the color, but I wonder if he just doesn’t want to cut the grass until Grandma
visits in the spring.
She just
turned eighty, and she seems to delight in cutting the lawn in any season.
When she came for Christmas, she was
out mowing leaves and frightening the grass so we’d have a nice spring crocus
show.
Of course then we got a foot
of snow and she was cabin-bound for the rest of the visit.
Much of the rest of the news is more like that of the
underground section of my weaving.
I woke up yesterday morning to drips coming through the living room ceiling
and onto the sofa and carpet.
The
roof fellow is coming by today to have a look—I hope this won’t be
another big repair!
On the other hand,
I had a nice drive with
Susan Snyder to Indianapolis on Monday last week.
She drove while I poked at lemons, then
she went off to shop for ceramic supplies while I watched three boys at the trampoline park.
I think a good and productive time was
had by everyone involved.
That reminds
me,
Susan made one of the presents I purchased for Jim at Christmas.
Our big serving bowl developed a scary
crack, so Susan made us a big and very pretty klusky bowl.
I appreciate the idea of supporting the
local artists, and Susan didn’t disappoint us!
We’ll serve many nice meals from that bowl in the years to
come.
Until next week,
Martina Celerin
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