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Frog legs and the garden

8/25/2012

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Currently: Dales gallery on Fisgard, Cedar Hill Rec. centre main gallery, The Gallery at Matticks Farm
Stores: The Butchart gardens, Sooke Harbour House, Abkhazi Gardens, Sea Cider (Saanich)


   A major shop clean up, floor sweep and yes, even a few days off this week too! Enjoyed and worked in the garden and caught up outside after my whirlwind of shows and production all spring and summer. I needed to replenish my metal frog stock so started with cutting out an assorted collection of bodies with the plasma cutter using of pipes and scrap metal. Legs are welded together from bolts, screws, round bar and rebar and arranged in hopefully believable and lifelike configurations, fingers and toes are cut to size from, again, scrap and round bar, eye balls are the finishing touch then all is welded to the bodies. A piece of scrap metal is welded and signed on the bottom of the frog to give it some depth from the side and a nice finish.
    My vegetable garden has been producing well after the slow cold start, beans are over 8 feet tall, I probably have 20 pounds of grapes on an un pruned, crazy wild grape vine  and apples fall every day bigger than your fist. I even have some lettuce that was transplanted in the shade that has been ready to consume for the last week, tomatoes are red, potatoes are ready to dig and the heat has stopped the grass growing to allow me time to deal with the produce.
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Crystals and heat

8/17/2012

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Currently: Dales Gallery on Fisgard July,Aug,
Cedar Hill rec center main gallery group show Aug 16-26,
Matticks Farm Gallery
Stores: Butchart Gardens, Sooke Harbour House, Sea Cider on the Saanich Peninsula, Abkhazi Gardens

  Glendale Gardens show was fantastic. A beautiful natural hidden gem of a site with many dedicated workers and volunteers. The weather has been very hot so this week was a holiday week with some shop tidying after all the shows .A quick flight off island to tour some amazing galleries, metal, and wood shops and cool back yard projects /inventions around the Seshelt area, to talk ideas with creative thinkers is a breath of fresh air after all my hard in shop work. So a few newer metal pics and some back yard shots while I melt in the heat.
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Metal chandalier, dragonfly's, and yard herons

8/10/2012

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Glendale Gardens art in the gardens this weekend August 11 and 12th 11-5

After a successful show up island I had a 3 day turn around to make some of the popular things that I had sold out of. The chandalier with crystals I could have sold half a dozen times, the yard herons were a hit and the dragonfly garden stakes I sold out of on the first day so that was my weeks work, albeit a very short week. Did I mention my lawn needs cutting? I did manage to transplant some lettuce that survived the heat!
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leaded crystals just need to be added to the small welded rings before the show
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Filberg Festival

8/10/2012

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The Filberg festival was a huge success, the weather was hot, and my spot in the dappled shade was perfect. The organizers run a tight ship and all was fantastic for my 4 day show, the sales, the people, my help!

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    Karen Lancey is the metal artist behind Metal Mermaid Welding, at home in North Saanich B.C. Canada

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