A Little Taste of Heaven
These little explosions of taste always make my heart sing. I never set out to purchase them so they are a grand surprise when I come across them. On this particular day I stopped roadside to pick up the last of the season's peaches but needless to say my cash on hand was quickly swapped for these beauties. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of a scuppernong (green) or muscadine (purple) they are somewhat akin to a grape, but with a very thick peel. The bigger they are the sweeter they become. There is scuppernong jelly and muscadine wine but for me I like them cold straight from the fridge, just watch out for the seeds.
As I have been working on automata my pieces seem to be growing in size. My latest piece, which I will share soon, is around 16 x 16 inches. When I saw an incarnation of this I was intrigued by the size. Not only was it small but the mechanism was predetermined as well so I had to see what I could do with these parameters. After playing with the clothespin for a good while, open/close/open/close/ open/close, I came up with this man tipping his hat at the lady passing by. It seemed easy enough, but as I have learned, not all is as it seems. It took some finagling to get the hat to go up and down, which you would think would be easy since it should only go up and down. Due to the weight of the felted hat on top of the wire, the hat would wobble around in all directions. Guiding the wire up the back of the man to control the movement worked perfectly. I added a free swinging purse to the lady's arm to give her a bit of personality, so when the clothespin is worked his hat goes up and down and her purse rocks about.
This is the next addition to the clothespin series and he is by far one of my favorite pieces. Unfortunately, the pictures do not do him justice. Photography is not one of my strong suits, but I digress...When activated be becomes a great sword swallower. To keep his sword in track I used a kid's juice box straw and felted his body around it. Surprise, it worked! I truly believe that if you don't know that something won't work, you will be surprised by what will. I have others playing around in my head but other pieces are time sensitive so they will just have to play amongst themselves for awhile.
Our weather is giving us a taste of fall this weekend so I have gladly broken out the warm fuzzy socks. I love my warm fuzzy socks. Truly.
I live in a college town and we have our first game Monday night, Go VOLS!!!, NFL starts Thursday, fuzzy socks...I just don't know if I can handle much more. Maybe some warm pumpkin bread dripping with butter...
Peace,
Hilari
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