i was in the studio early this morning and left for the day about 1/2 an hour ago so you would think I should have lots to show you but that does not seem to be the case.  I started the morning by cutting into this little guy from yesterday.

 I could not get a very good picture of the piece, please take my word for it that it is more interesting than it appears here.  I definitely want to get another one of these done, but bigger, before next Thirsday.  I did take a few minutes and write up all of the pieces I want to complete by the open house and put the approximate times for each.  So far I am at 43 hours of work and that is without doing any deviations so I guess instead of writing blog posts I should be felting. And even worse Amanda and I are taking tomorrow off and going on a road trip. 

A local guy rents cars and he dropped the car off tonight so we are ready to go tomorrow morning. We are going to see a sod hut museum, the store where they sell the tanned fish and then to the adjoining town where they have an artist residency but have lots more people and many types of artists working there. Amanada does not drive so I will be the driver and she will be the navigator. No place that we are going is very far but that does not account for the ups and downs and mountains that are all over the place. It should be a fun day.

I also made a 3D small corded sculpture but it is drying and probably will not be revealed for a couple of days and I made this. 

  It is about 15″ x 12″ and represents some dead coral on the bottom of the ocean. How boring you might say. but wait until you do this to it.

  See what a good backdrop it makes and adds height to some of my work.  On the plan there is at least one more of these but we shall see how the plan goes. 

So that’s it for today.  I went water jogging late this afternoon and it was nice but there was a brisk wind and that makes it coool walking from the shower to the outside pool and from the pool to the hot pool. But I survived to complete two more hollow coral tubes, they are drying, I will get them attached in the next day or so.  I know I said I was going to make 6 a day to get them finished but it was just too much fun and fairly easy to make the rock and the corded sculpture. 

My plan is to be back in time to tell you about our road trip tomorrow night but we shall see. Maybe some Vikings will attack us along the way.  

Thanks for reading.