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I left my Blogger signed on on John's computer :-)

ChainBang.

Beginnings of my the chain for my Female Wilderness Survival Pod. I decided that it will hold an o.b. tampon, a nail file, perfume, toilet paper and a mirror.

Wilderness Woman

For my final project of the semester I have decided that I need to make a Female Wilderness Survival Kit. I scoured the internet and could not find one!! For some reason, this make me very angry. Therefore, I am incredibly compelled to make this. The kit will include a tampon, perfume, a nail file and toilet paper. I am going to use hydraulic dye forming, etching and patinas on this project. Pictures will be coming soon!

Its All Coming Together!

Here are the spiculums coming into earring form!! You can really start to see how they are going to look, I'm very excited! Below the spiculums is the master plate I etched out of brass to make the embossment. I think that now that I am done with it, I am goin to cut it out and curve it into a cuff.

Spiculee Spiculaiiii

I may have a new obsession! And that is spiculum making! Here are my copper and silver spiculums that i have embossed and curved to make into my cave earrings!

Speeeeelunking

For my Production Project (I will have pictures and posts of my Chasing & Repousse soon) I decided that I wanted to focus on Spelunking. Going into a deep, scary cave. Below is a picture of me going into one such cave at Nelson's Ledges over the summer. And let me tell you, there is nothing like being deep down in the earth with rock all around you, it's surreal.

That being said, I had an idea that i wanted to do some type of tubular shape to represent the caves but I wasn't sure if I wanted to do a pendant or maybe earrings. I settled on earrings and began to draw. I came up with a sort of "faux-plug" idea, I decided I would make a series of 5 sets. Through research and talking to people I was turned onto the artist Shana Kroiz. Her gallery includes earrings that are similar to the hidden-post or "faux-plug" effect I am trying to capture.

The World is Your Playground

Remember when you were a kid and it was rainy out and you had to stay indoors? You would plead "But Moooooom, I wanna play outsideeeee!" Why did you want to go out there so badly? I'll tell you why... because the wonders you could find in your own backyard far exceeded anything that a board game or cartoon could deliver. (I grew up in a time when 3-year-olds didn't have PS3s) And that feeling of wonder, right there, is why I landed on "The World is Your Playground" as my theme this semester. So, the only question is now, how do you draw pleasure from the world around you?