I'm four lists behind right now. *sigh* As soon as I grasped that I was going to be missing eleven lists due to our vacation I sort of lost my mojo. Which is completely silly because the lists will be here when I get home.
But mojo is a fickle thing and it rarely responds to logic. So today I decided to get back at it and enjoy making all these luscious pages while I can and do the rest when I get back.
This was a fun topic as I adore tools. Not die cutting machine type of tools - blow torch types of things. It's fun to hammer, burn, pound, wreck and restructure raw materials until they're new and visually exciting. One of my favorite smells is grease - the kind that coats wire, not what you fry fish in - yeah, I'm weird like that.
The opposite page was one I made last August. I thought about going back into it and messing about. Adding some layers, making it integrate better. But that is where I was at and it's important to honor that too.
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I'm loving your lists. They're beautiful and thought-provoking. I've never turned on or used our BBQ either. I really should learn to do that!
I just had to comment on this list because I took a metalsmithing class last semester (haven't blogged about my pieces YET, lol) and it is so much fun to torch and hammer copper (one of my favorite things is to 'foldform' - literally, you torch and hammer, repeat many, many times until your metal looked like fabric. And of course, having taken a few Michael de Meng courses, I am now VERY familiar with the Dremel. and have added one to my arsenal. Have you gotten to play with any of your tools on your list? Keep on playing- been really enjoying looking at your work the past couple of day!
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