Archive | May, 2008

Sew “Modern” vintage sewing machine

by PaMdora on 26. May, 2008 in Tech, Vintage Stuff

As promised, here’s my prize snag at the 51st Brownsville flea market and craft festival. It’s a Modern sewing machine made in Japan, and actually my eagle-eyed husband spotted it sitting inside an ugly white plastic case in the mud just outside of a woman’s tent who said it belonged to her mother. Rather than [...]

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Moving a Sculpture, or this weekend reminds me why I make quilts

by PaMdora on 25. May, 2008 in Other Artists, Sculpture

We finally got back up to Omaha to pick up this sculpture purchased at the Bemis Art Auction last fall. It will be a fun Memorial weekend project to move it back home for our new sculpture garden collection. It’s very heavy and awkward to move — took six guys to drag it to the [...]

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Creative To Do Lists

by PaMdora on 22. May, 2008 in Mixed Media, Sketchbooks

Since recently I’ve had little time to make art, I got the idea to make creative to-do lists in my moleskine. The idea was to do an experimental page each morning, and since it was only a to-do list, I felt no inhibitions about creating a great work of art. It was merely a chance [...]

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Portable Drawing Door Table

by PaMdora on 12. May, 2008 in Drawings, Studio

Now that the really hard physical work is over, we’re having fun arranging areas of the newly renovated offices and gallery. Here’s a drawing desk I built using an old black door and some dusty sawhorses I found in the warehouse. I like that the hinges are still attached (except when I busted my ankle [...]

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And Now for Something Completely Different

by PaMdora on 11. May, 2008 in Studio

At our old house, we had a fish pond with lots of beautiful koi fish with names like Casper, Skeletor, Wabi, Goldilocks, and the Sharkey Brothers. One day a fish appeared, it wasn’t a koi so we suspected that someone who had tired of their aquarium had graced our pond during the night with this [...]

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