Starting in a few weeks I'm gonna volunteer at an arboretum on Saturdays from 9am until about noon.
I have been very fatigued lately and debated giving up this plan but then I thought that maybe being outdoors will actually give me more energy.
My chicken-cooking class is on Wednesday.
I spend the rest of my weekends in the jewelry studio. Currently taking a rings class.


I found all those little copper "Z" squares all over the floor of the studio. Soldering them like that was actually rather challenging.

By far my most crowd-pleasing piece has been the carrot:

I plan to heat the surface a little to bring out the dirty carroty texture and then give it to my mom.

We had a project with many requirements including a bezel, a box that closes and has a stand.. a hinge. So I made this conceptual monstrosity. The box is circular, the stand holds it closed, the hinge is the clasp. The box on a normal chain or the chain by itself would be attractive.


open:


Here's my apple from the very first class I took. I can't believe that was a whole year ago. What the fuck.


Spring months are always very exciting for me but I'm particularly nostalgic about last spring. I try not to avoid thinking that I gave it up my lifestyle for my current happiness but rather believe that it was leading into it.

Did I already mention here that I'm doing unicornmeat.com again?

well I am.

I know I already talked about my garden. Here's an ASCII rendition of my yard:

flowers in the front and back and carrots, chives and tomatos all along the narrow side and herbs in the box in the back. Lots and lots of basil.
This spring will be just as good as the last one. Probably better.