Boxes of Birds

I have been getting back to the metal shop, trying to come up with new ideas.

 One of the best ways I know how to do this is to work mainly from material that I have squirreled away over the years. One of my goals this season is to only use metal I already have in the supply shed.
It forces me to get out of my comfort zone of working with the same old parts that I know "work". 

It also encourages me to use those precious pieces that are "too cool" to use, I figure they might as well exist in a piece of Art where other people can enjoy them instead of some dark dusty corner of my shop.

Bunches of Bird heads

old Craftsman toolbox

Red cover off of a Electric fence charger

Red electric fence charger box

old breaker box

Fall Festival in Corvallis

Wow what a surprise when I got a call early this week, to fill in for a booth that canceled at the Fall Festival.  I was on a waiting list but I didn't really think I would get the call . Yippee! I am getting ready.

Bubble Tree? or giant flower?

Birds in the tree

The aftermath of making...

  The timing was perfect, last weekend I was invited out to an old farm to gather treasure. Digging in old barn corners and finding little piles of tractor parts lost under the old hay, dust, and squirrelled away acorn piles. I found lots of inspirational handfuls and bucketfuls. It is always refreshing to my creative mind to get/gather "new" supplies.  I never would have been able to whip up these new art pieces without this boost to my imagination (even if most of the stuff I used I already had laying around). Funny how this works out. Now I feel very happy with the progress I am making to fill out my booth for the Fall Festival.

Three new little guys.

And the start of a new fern.

More to come, back to work now.