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Friday, September 13th, 2019
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8:03 pm - Krakatoa Sunsets?
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Friends have been posting photos of amazing sunrises/sunsets.
I find myself wondering if it has anything to do with the Amazon burning?
When you get an art history degree, you learn that one of the reasons Impressionist painters painted such amazing sunsets was because Krakatoa erupted in 1883.
Yes, a volcano in Indonesia inspired the artists around the world.
Wikipedia will tell you something about how the particles of smoke and ash made it into the upper atmosphere, changing the way that sunlight reflected off the Earth's atmosphere for YEARS.
You can look it up, it's a real thing.
Article in Forbes
... what if the Amazon being on fire is why sunrises have been so amazing lately?
Does that mean the end of the world will be spectacularly well lit? Ironically beautiful?
current mood:  curious
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| Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
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8:11 am - Take 8: Photos of my new silver work!
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| Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
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9:00 am - Bioluminescence!
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Sitting out on the porch last night with M.
Watching the lightning bugs out in the back 40, along the shrubs at the tree line.
Lightning bugs are always a happy memory for me.
Running through my grandmother's back yard with a jar trying to catch them. She would put holes in the top so they could breath, but they would always be dead or gone in the morning.
I feel a little guilty about trapping and killing them as a kid.
Has anyone ever had a BAD experience with lightning bugs?
I don't think I have ever heard a negative story about them!
No one has ever told me that they were attacked by a swarm of them as a child.
Not ever bitten by one.
They didn't get into the kitchen and infest something.
Not a plague on Scout camping trips or late nights with friends.
Now, I just sit and watch them.
Wonder what strange fluke of nature made their butts glowing a genetic advantage?
Wouldn't that make them an easy target?
Things I ponder in the quiet of a summer evening.
current mood:  nostalgic
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| Thursday, March 30th, 2017
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3:49 pm - Clearly, some one over-did-it yesterday!
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Clearly, some one over-did-it yesterday! Perhaps 2 somebodies.
Waking up stiff and sore, at approximately 2pm in the afternoon: This might be a good sign the limits were stretched.
It had been a good day, a productive day. Sunny and warm, but not too warm.
Seeds had been planted, a cart built for the riding lawn mower, a section of new garden wall laid, and one section of the front garden mulched.
The neighbors kids had come over to help... all of 8 and 5, but they were actually pretty good at picking things up. Made it much easier on the bending, lifting and twisting that had been forbiden by the doctors.
Dinner didn't happen until 8pm, if left overs qualify as "dinner," but when you are hungy? Food is food.
Pills were taken at 10pm. Washed down with Kool-aid and white wine. (To each their own late night beverage of choice.) The TV turned off, the lights... but exhaustion does not promise sleep.
Both were up again before 11pm. Back to the living room, another drink, some thing cheesey on TV.
By 3 am one was nodding and the other snoring. Get up again, maybe another drink.
This time sleep was not elusive.
Was that the cat at 7am? or maybe just the call of nature. No matter. Sleep resumed immediately.
Both staggered into wakefulness some time after 1pm.
Still, sore and chastized for their ambitions with every move.
current mood:  exhausted
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| Monday, March 20th, 2017
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8:58 am - Shhh... The seeds are sleeping!
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The seeds are sleeping in little packs of pressed fiber, filled with potting soil.
Reminiscent of egg cartons. 10 tiny boxes, 5 x 2, that will eventually be put directly into the ground.
12 bags of mulch have been hauled out into the yard an staged for mulching.
2 really HEAVY bags of rocks and 4 bags of planting soil taken to the back yard for filling the ugly orange Home Depot buckets that will act as a garden this year.
Beans, sun flowers, basil, peas, crook neck yellow squash and zuccini seads planted in 2's and 3's into their little square biodegradable "pots".
Enough potting soil left to plant 3 different kinds of tomatoes next week. Carrots, onions and raddishes will be sewn directly into buckets.
In a week or two the seeds will hatch, bursting out in tiny seedlings.
With luck, and good weather, that will allow time for a bed or two to be prepared along the fence line. Full sun and open to fresh air and the rain. For safe keeping, a few of the seedlings will be chosen to live in the buckets. But whether sewn in the dirt or in the ugly 5 gallon buckets, they will grow!
Truly nothing quite like herbs and vegetables. Dreams of the sleeping seeds, nestled in their little boxes of dirt.
current mood:  hopeful
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| Saturday, March 18th, 2017
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5:24 pm - Morning on the porch...
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It's warming up, but I still put my coat on before going to the porch.
A large cup of coffe in one hand. A pack of evil, but delightful, Nat Sherman MCD's and a lighter in the other hand.
I settled into my rocking chair. The sunshine dividing the water on the clear corogated roof into lines of rainbows across the wall.
The house finches were flitting and shuffling their nesting materials between the ceiling joists.
Sitting quietly, enjoy the smoke that is all so wrong for me and taking a swig from the quickly cooling beverage, commotion!
From nowhere, a starling had worked his way into the narrow space between board and was robbing the finches of their nesting materials.
Was it my scornful glare or the angry squalking of the finches?
Either way, the starling flew off with a mouth full of nesting fluff.
The finches went about primping their violated nest.
I sat a little while longer. Pretending that I wasn't being protective of the small nesting birds.
Eventually, the coffee got cold, and the birds were left to sort things out for themselves.
It won't stop me from checking on them again tomorrow.
current mood:  lazy
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| Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
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3:30 pm - Writerverse
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Maybe I am nuts... and who knows, they may kick me out, but I signed up to join writerverse.
I miss writing.
Writing about more than just my daily drama and blathering about my gf.
I have absolutely no idea what I am going to write about.
I welcome the challenges, the writing prompts, the community.
Wish me luck!
current mood: excited
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| Thursday, March 31st, 2016
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2:13 pm - Upcoming shows
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Things are gonna get a little crazy in May.
I should make these live links, but for today, an update is enough!
May 1st-7th, 2016
MassArt Spring Sale
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston MA 02115
May 7th, 2016
Watch City Festival
Waltham MA
May 12th-16thm, 2016
Steampunk Worlds Faire
Piscataway, NJ
current mood:  busy
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| Saturday, December 5th, 2015
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9:33 am - Where to find me and my jewelry!
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| Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
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12:31 pm - Where to find me and my jewelry!
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Upcoming Shows:
September 12, 2015
Salem Steampunk Social
Salem, MA
September 19 & 20, 2015
Jewelry Designer's Online Marketplace
October 21 & 22
Jewelry Designer's Online Marketplace
Retail Locations:
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA
Jetty Walk, Bearskin Neck, Rockport, MA
Trolley Depot, Salem MA
Salemdipity, Pickering Wharf, Salem, MA
Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, MA
Jewelry Designers Open Market on Facebook
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| Thursday, March 19th, 2015
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12:56 am - Upcoming Shows!
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| Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
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2:08 pm - Selling my life is lots on ebay, etsy, craigs list...
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Between my mother's death and remodeling the 3rd floor, I have been forced to go through every box in the house. I am making progress, but by NO MEANS have I gotten through every box.
A lot of things have been donated to the local homeless shelter, but other things, I am selling.
Maybe they have more sentimental value? I just think they are cooler?
As hobbies go this is a good one for me.
- clears out stuff
- make some chump change on the side
- I can manage it from my bed
- reassures me that things have found good homes
MUCH better than having a yard sale!
... and who in hell would have a yard sale in 6 feet of snow?
ON EBAY:
this is my user name: http://www.ebay.com/usr/gothtique
I am selling a LOTR figurine set, set of Golden Books (Vintage kid stuff)
... and Steampunk Watch Parts in little 18 gram containers. Crowns too.
ON CRAIGS LIST:
I am entropy@picklepot.com
Dishes, decorative plates, my mother's dishes
The LOTR figures for straight cash, no bidding!
ON ETSY:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThePicklepotStudio?ref=hdr_shop_menu
Mostly baubles. I will have more pics up after the show this weekend.
I have been selling things on facebook too!
This continual state of "Spring Cleaning" is good for me! I am so overly sentimental most of the time. If this is what it takes for me to let things go, then so be it! OUT THEY GO!
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| Thursday, February 5th, 2015
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2:03 am - Upcoming shows!
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Upcoming Shows:
February 13-15, 2015
Boskone 52
Boston MA
February 26, 2015
5th Annual Artists and Authors Event
5pm-9pm
Hawthorne Hotel, Salem, MA
March 21 & 22, 2015
Jewelry Designers Open Market
Online trunk show
April 18 & 19, 2015
Jewelry Designers Open Market
Online trunk show
May 3-9, 2015
MassArt Made Spring Sale
Boston, MA
May 15-17, 2015
Steampunk Worlds Fair
Piscataway, NJ
current mood: busy
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| Saturday, October 25th, 2014
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10:17 am - Fuller Craft Museum Holiday Shop Opening 11/22
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Holiday Shop Opening Celebration
Saturday, November 22, 2014, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Celebrate the opening day of our Holiday Shop with trunk shows and demonstrations by Bob Field with his 3D printed Atomic Earrings, fiber artist/jewerly maker Sandra Golbert and steampunk wizard Jeff Bowie. We will have holiday cookies to get you into the spirit.
http://fullercraft.org/lectures/
Yes, I will be there with my Steampunk Wizardry.
Get a jump on your holiday shopping some place MUCH cooler than the mall!
current mood: excited
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| Saturday, August 9th, 2014
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8:50 am - Call for work: “Gears, Grit and Gaslights”
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Salem Arts Association Call for Work:
“Gears, Grit and Gaslights”
September 4-28, 2014,
Reception September 13th, 4-6pm.
The theme for the Salem Arts Association’s September exhibit is “Gears, Grit and Gaslights”. Harken back to an earlier time or leap forward to a re-envisioned future:. Steampunk, Neo- Victorian, Retro Future, or Post-Apocalyptic Nostalgia. Celebrate an era that promised air ships and time travel. Remember a past of steam engines, industry and innovation.
Your work should reflect some aspect of or about the Late 19th Century, in anything from era appropriate themes, materials, and techniques to the dreams and visions of authors like H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.
Be adventurous and share your work with the community!
Exhibit Dates: September 4-28, 2014 Accepted work must remain on view until the exhibit closes.
Exhibition Reception: September 13th, 4-6pm.
Exhibit Location: Artists' Row, Building #2, 24 New Derby Street in Salem!
WORK SOUGHT: Artists are invited to submit up to three pieces, 2D works should be no larger than 18 x 24”and wired to hang with no saw tooth hangers. Sculptural pieces need to fit through the door. Wearables (large jewelry pieces, hats, dresses, etc.) should include displays.
UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE UNABLE TO ACCOMMODATE INSTALLATIONS. NO SAW TOOTH HANGERS - THEY WILL NOT HANG.
ARTWORK DROP-OFF: Tuesday, September 2nd, from 4 to 7 pm. and Wednesday September 3rd from 8-10am,. In person drop-off only. Unsolicited mail will not be returned. Artists will be notified via email if work is not accepted. Please plan to pick up any unaccepted work on Thursday, September 4th, from 4-7 pm
All artists are invited to submit 3 pieces.
Jury Fees:
SAA Members: Free.
Non-Members: $5.00 fee per entry.
All artists accepted to the show are encouraged to sign up got a 2 hour Gallery Sitting time.
INSURANCE: Works of Fine Art and Craft with a value under $1000 are insured for catastrophic loss only. Works With a value of over $1 000 are not insured by the SAA. Artists’ must provide their own insurance if they wish additional coverage.
The juror for this show will be Victorian Lady Lisa.
She is known both locally and nationally for her Cape Ann Cable TV show “All things Victorian” and her book “International Steampunk Fashions”.She is currently writing a second book, a Victorian/Edwardian fashions book. A third book, with Steampunk designer/model phenom Kato, is also being planned. Lady Lisa also has the honor of being a portrait model for artists in PA and recently for famed impressionist, Jude Abbe. She is a member of one of the Rockport Art Association. Lovely seaside Rockport, MA is where Lady Lisa resides.
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| Saturday, August 28th, 2010
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7:46 pm - Look mom, I'm famous!
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| Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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7:42 pm - ... for the GEEKS shall inherit the Earth!
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4:52 pm - Farm Share: Week Eleven
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Great haul this week!
8 ears of corn
1 head of lettuce
1 lb potatoes
1 lb carrots
1.5 lbs peppers
1 pint of heirloom tomatoes
2.25 lbs peaches
.25 lb plums
1 pound of apples
1 watermellon
and a loaf of sourdough bread.
None of this will go to waste!
current mood:  hungry
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| Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
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8:25 pm - A little wisdom from Dr. Seuss
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My friend Sara posted this quote recently... and I thought I would share:
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss
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| Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
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12:16 pm - BEADS!
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This is where I will be all weekend:
The 14th Annual Cape Cod Bead Show
AUGUST 21-22, 2010
790 Main St, Falmouth, MA 02540.
Sat 10-5, Sun 10-4, $4.00 Admission
At the Falmouth "Rec" Center.
If you happen to be shopping for beads on the Cape... ;-)
current mood: hopeful
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