Today I feel like much was accomplished in the felting studio. I finished the orange coral tubes, drum roll please. Each tube is about 5″ high and it takes 35 to 40 minutes to make two of them so this type of piece takes a lot of time. I don’t see large numbers of these in my future but I really like the look of them.

  
First thing this morning I cut out the marbles and made many cuts in this, my new favourite piece. It is just so wonderful, one side looks very bark like and I can see how I could make a very realistic tree should I feel the urge. I needed to take pictures of both sides so you could see the different colours, it is just so wonderful.  This one is 15″ high. 

   
 Late last week I tried making some kelp to add height to the piece and the kelp did not make the cut but what, wondered I, could I make that would give the piece some added dimension. I have an inspiration piece on the wall and it has a large orange hollow tube coral.  I know how to make hollow tubes but this needed to be much bigger and stand up in its own. I used a resist that was 18″ high hoping to end up with 12″ of height once it was felted firm enough to stand up. I ended up with 3 completed today and I like each and every one of them.   They stand about 11″ high. 

  
Last Friday I received an email from Icelandair saying there may be a strike of ground handlers on May 31 and June 1st, my flight leaves on June 1st. I could get a full refund or change my flight for no fee if I wanted to get out before the strike. I thought about it over the weekend and checked the news hoping the labour dispute had been settled but no change so this morning I called and changed my flight out to May 30th, my Canadain North flight to May 31st and my hotel reservations in Reyjkavik and Edmonton. And wouldn’t you know it late this afternoon an announcement that due to some movement the strike has been delayed by 5 days and is now starting on June 2nd, lots of other groups were doing rotating strikes. So had I procrastinated I would not be leaving 2 days early but the decision was made and having been here for a month I am ready to go home and have no regrets about the change in plans. 

Only 2 more days until the open house so much felting to be done in preparation.  Thanks for reading.