artist + writer + perpetual home renovator

2012 day 12 | float that! waaawhooo

03 Jul 2012

discombobulate table legs and attach; design rebar tire tube holding table hook in; disassemble (omg) and transport to site; lacify tubes; stitch, siitch; foot document on forest floor; show off (July 14); disassemble and load in my truck; drive home; unload; reload; transport; install; oh...

2012 day 12 | bum sitting, BIG BUTings, feminine framed fatiguing and torquing

03 Jul 2012

begin to synch into meaningful makings. ummm. though table top frame just swung up with the weight of test clamped on leg…oops. there goes gravity having its way with my work! no harm.0

2012 day 13 | oh my BIG BUT, she is problematic no matter that i balance her cheekly on the edge plummeting neither to nor fro

03 Jul 2012

consume line after line of text, scratch pen across slick unlined weighted page, thumb out cyber friendships, submit-update-edit-update, repost after repost of blog entries, tilt digital-capture-do-everything-device and click another world, I only really note on screen, click, upload, join it to some thoughts, post, share,...

2012 day 12 | BREAK. totally legit.

sky opened wide a spilled it's guts! just beautiful to watch, smell and hear!0

2012 day 12 | awe. I waited. good thing

no way I was strong enough. definitely a two person job. only minor tweaking to the under tabletop joist system in order. thankful all system slides so just a littl sliding and wa-la. then to start on top ends. will put some lateral support at...

2012 day 12 | stalling stalling wait for it wait

back up spotter for under table joist lifting. wait for it. wait. ok. ok. already. fidget. WAIT. really kathy, wait. yes. some mutter to themselves under their breath, I mutter with my thumbs on my blog! mutter.0

2012 day 12 | time is seriously clicking by

check. four back of chair hinge/hook sliders operation. _____. two ladders out. _____. spare muscles for lifting. _____. lifting in place. _____. check stability so I don't get squished. _____. add stabilizing system of needed. _____. determine table width. _____. tablify end corners of floating...

2012 day 11 | oh how I lied!

lies I am not reading with my feet still kicked up in my studio door. I am sweating. I am prototyping (working). I’ve followed the rules using only scrap to fabricate extendable chair hook hinge for underjoist of floating forest tabletop (plus a store bought...

2012 day 11 | waaaawhooo!

so I kick back in my studio door, bowl of popcorn and book 3 of the hunger games in hand, as I watch the rains roll in! I am not totally lazy, but it is Sunday, so I’ll use the sky rumble and drip as...

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wildblue excede problem
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july 1 re-recontacted wildblue via online customer support chat. stephanie lets me know she sees no record of attempt at installation and no initiation or approval for refund. she notes in online chat, that i saved as i saved the one that documented i would...

2012 day 11 | breaking my rules again

we'll see how these porch posted soon to be distended from floating forest tabletop table legs plays out. would have loved to trash harvested some legs, but alas I'll just gave to age, crapify them myself. kind of like singing falsetto. sing. sing.0

2012 day 11 | besides the superhero fashions for the feminine are by far more aesthetically pleasing then men in tights!

being the heroine of my life set off so many personal podcasts (i’d say tapes but that would date me!) that on the last leg of my return from the hardware store, past the devil’s hopyard, I thought I was going to toss my cookies...

2012 day 11 | Above all, be the heroine of your life!

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron (1941-2012), author of when Harry met Sally My faith and friend background would unhealthily tell me this is wrong, selfish and deletes god from the equation. a weird part of my...

2012 day 10 | weld that you little dog %¥}!!^%^~#!?!!

30 Jun 2012

not to shameful for "an artist!" who only sporadically glues metal together. got temp to feed on the little Lincoln a little more appropriately balanced in ratio which made all the difference in my little swirligig metal glue wads (welds). metal hot glue gun. nice...

2012 day 10 | undisclosed dog turd welds — oh the shame of it!

30 Jun 2012

but nice Lilly pads!0

taking her for an evening spin0

2012 day 9 | I broke the rules and now I must fake reruleifying

29 Jun 2012

yesterday afternoon I slapped some neutralizing paint down to minimize my structural material adaptions. OMG what was I thinking! naturally this broke my rule of rawness, of using the recovered materials as is in all their own glory and shame. but I formally had inclination...

2012 day 9 | untangle but whatever the hell I do, don't pull the threads!

29 Jun 2012

hermitage

without the click or slide of plastic, I extricate myself from the isles I found myself meandering. I’d intended a hardware run with list in hand. but like a mindless drunk lifting the bottle to my lips, at the circle circled red dot, I turned...

2012 day 8 | my fabricated chairs

28 Jun 2012

now to design and build floating table! yay. some work just starts feeling right somewhere along the build phase (or wrong). this one feels right and I am pretty dang excited about it. it will be perfect her amongst the trees with an undulating grass...

2012 day 8 | my fabricated chairs

2012 day 8 | quiet morn out on the pond

28 Jun 2012

as is my habit. same space. same viewscape. but new each morn.0

2012 day 7 | one more run then on to the seating unit

27 Jun 2012

c-2 should be done mid day tomorrow. by afternoon that day, I’ll be off on the floating table top then secure a site. will tubify it on location.0

2012 day 7 | a visitor

27 Jun 2012

2012 day 6 | a must have lowe's item

27 Jun 2012

ummmm. had to restrain my gadget impulse buy inclination. when I saw it, I instantly lusted for one and I didn’t even know what it was!!! a magnetic led to use when working on plumbing, cars etc. oh coolness. I absolutely do NOT need this,...

2012 day 6 | brrrrr. I think I’ll stay awhile

26 Jun 2012

here or home. here! yes. yes. please.0

2012 day 6 | still a clamp or two no really I didn't intend her to be do large

26 Jun 2012

partner to be fabricated though materials need harvested via deconstructing domestic thresholds (doors) then on to the suspended table move to site in wooded meadow carpeted with velvet like undulating tick filled grasses then she will be tubified, stitch, stitch! I keep looking over my...