Snow and a full head of steam...

Quilt Pattern Collage #1, block-up, work in progress. 

POTUS has been running full steam ahead this past week... 
well it has also been a busy week in my neck of the woods, even if it is covered with snow and cold... burning the wood pellets from morning till bedtime and working to stay warm. 
have been getting some aRt work done this winter since i deactivated my FB account...
may restart it again in the spring when i return to Forest Service work and some of the anger, contention, and angst of the new POTUS settles down a bit...
have had lots of new ideas to work through,
much of the work after the block-up running along by the seat of my pants...
and i am for the most part liking what comes out in the final pieces... it's just knowing when to stop.

Book of Mormon 1Nephi 4: 6-7

                     Sunday January 22
Grey cold windy day... good church meetings...
the press and the POTUS fighting each other...
give the man/office a break... allow him to work without always poking at him in the cage.
he was voted in to do a job, weather we all like it or not, allow him to do that work...
the press knows this one will kick back at the pricks and jabs at him...
contention is the work of the devil to divide us... stop poking at him with your sharp sticks.
Wow i missed the cheap postage stamps... the price when up today to .49 cents per letter...
more snow coming over the next few days...
keep the pellets burning... stay warm and shovel
the driveway...

Looking north up the Panguitch valley...

               Monday January 23
Blowing snow storm all morning...
shovel driveway to get some sun melt...
blue sunny sky afternoon, some melt going on
out for a drive in the good afternoon light...
assemblage ideas for the quilt pattern block collages, bottle caps, beads, small leather bags
making images with G-5 camera...
getting dizzy in-between all this...
taking naps with the dog (2) am & pm...
never got to the post... tomorrow...
lots of snow so far this winter...
looking forward to a wet spring full of wildflowers!

Looking east across the bench to Sevier Plateau...

                    Tuesday January 24
Mostly cloudy morning... no new snow...
no driveway to shovel... post office today...
my first social security check...
change from paper check to direct deposit...
seal a wooden frame for collage #9...
heat turned up window open fan on...
cold day but sunny enough to melt some snow
work on the collages today... assemblage...
beads, drawings & bottle caps...
finger prick blood test tomorrow am...
expecting sub-zero temps tonight...
big pill bill at the drug store, deductibles...
snow building up in the mountains...
melting snow = water down in the valley...
starting to think volunteers... for spring...
watching POTUS work each day...
Still lots of contention coming from the east...
"bad" weather on both coasts...

#2 Quilt Pattern Collage, Assemblage.

                 Wednesday January 25
POTUS is steaming full speed ahead...
smashed pennies, beads and bottle caps...
trash can out to the curb for pick-up...
cold clear sky day 5* at 1000 hrs....
pro-time finger prick... cold fingers...
quilt pattern block ideas flowing...
working with what comes to mind...
found a bottle of found art-a-facts...
have to keep new ideas on work table...
and keep all options open... everything...
is on the table...
an old metal filling fell out my mouth...
shell buttons, glass beads, chicken bones...
punching holes in coins... thousands of beads...
more polyurethane on wooden frame...
another busy day in the vacation office.

#4 Quilt Pattern Collage, Assemblage.

                   Thursday January 26
The trash was picked up early today...
cold grey day, high temp 22* sum sun...
Volunteers starting to look for summer work...
sewed up #4 QPC this morning...
buttons & beads on #6 QPC...
two more QPC to go, #1 & #3, just blocked-up.
Some work better then others, signposts...
Think i will sit on these last two awhile...
pellet stove running, burning wood all day...
good phone call from my Sister today...

Funny small cardboard cards, with photo's glued on and glass beads, buttons, smashed pennies attached to them...
What in the heck is this all about???
keep going one will jump up and out sooner or later... put them in frame and that isolates them from each other and the world around them...
kind of like dressing them up and sending them out into the world or school or some such thing as that... or maybe i am just getting tired of them and need to sit back and look for awhile... ya think?

back yard snow... so much for melting.

And today is:          Friday January 27...
POTUS is into the new job for seven now and has not quit...
the day here started at -5* clear blue bright and sunny...
Cedar City Temple will be dedicated Sunday December 10, 2017.
no matter what is going on in the world around me my "world" still moves forward with or without me...

Cedar City Temple, Nov 15 2016

I Hope that all is well with you, thank you for stopping by...
CHEERS

On the Eve of Change... Friday January 20, 2017

Friday the 13th, Panguitch, Utah 2017

Well change is coming...
promised or otherwise...
change is the one thing we are always sure of... 
the movement from one day to the next for one...
the Country change is coming from the east, again...
this country has always changed from east to west...
change follows the sunrise...
once the easterners become westerners then comes the difference of opinions...
how long does the east to west change take ?

The toy story moves on...

       


  A large empty hole is now in the basement where all the kids toys, that they did not take with them, were stored... discovered while looking for something else... so that was a day relocating them, the toys, to new homes/owners who wanted them.
Getting a new leader of a free world country is not much different then clearing the basement of the old toys... only the new leader makes some folks mad and another group happy and they were all just looking for a change... i am not sure we will know for sure what we each got until some time after the new guy moves into the eastern white house.  i for one am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, pray for him and his group and watch the blues and reds switch sides from the past eight years of change... they all want to get  what they want but none wants to give-up what they have... it's funny how the guy going out always looks better then the new guy coming in... ChanGe.

From one cracker to another... here comes change...

      The big country change comes tomorrow, Jan 20th 2017...
"...come what may and love it" !!

So the power struggle will go on...
Kindness is the essence of greatness...
we are in need of more kindness...
hang on to hope... 
love thy enemies...  along with your neighbor...
the Lord's hand is in everything...
continually hold fast to the iron rod...
we have been scattered & gathered...
diligently seek for peace... i know that God loves me & you and this country.

Quilt Pattern Collage #1, selfie, 2017

       I always feel better/comfortable with change when i have some control over it...
in the past two weeks some new inspiration over came me... with the recent collage  work i have been doing and the strong quilt tradition here in Panguitch, it all begins to effect me... so i searched out eleven quilt block patterns, then questioned a local quilt expert, and expanded them to the size of 6.75" x 6.75" square on graph paper, then transferred the pattern to cardboard and cut out the cardboard pattern pieces...
i have six different quilt block patterns...
using the photo images i created myself...
i cut out a quilt block pattern and collaged them together to create a  juxtapositional photo collage... 
i now have six of these blocked-up quilt patterns complete and will "live" with them for awhile and see how/if to work on them some more, which i am sure i will...
they appear to me to be in a very "raw" state and lack something... at this point not knowing what that change will be to create the finished piece...
so like our country on the verge of change, so am i on the verge of  another change...
"come what may and love it..."  
Cheers to the "new" folks and the President in the east...

Cold Rain Snow and Work...

 The nice thing about rain...
it runs off the driveway, no shovel...
but then it gets dark and snows...
the wind comes up blows the snow to the neighbors yard... they shovel...
then i get to shovel in morning...
or hope for a sunny clear day above freezing to melt it away...
thank goodness we don't get double digit inches of snow at once...
it's just been really cold...
burning through the wood pellets to stay warm... about 200 lbs. per week
getting some collage, drawing, and assemblage work done...
the dog would rather nap with me then watch me work.

Drawing/ideas for collage work...

Spirit figure drawing ideas from 2011 work... to be used on top of sat maps then colored in... staying in the lines of course, of course along with some outside the line scribbling just so it don't look/feel so tight...some times i just scare the heck out of myself... usually on grey overcast Mondays... oh my gosh that's today!
Some days i just have to get out the house and drive around with the dog till the car gets so hot inside we can't stand it...
always take the camera along so we can make images... like the rain on the windscreen above... then return home and make drawing like marks on paper and fight with the dog to not take a nap.
Some days the the work flows others it's a fight to get it out

Does rebellion come because of unbelief ?
Migration=movement from one region to another...
This is the longest i have been in one place my whole life.
It's nice to have paper and colored pencils and tools...
the days are still too short and nights too long.

#8 Collage, drawing, assemblage, detail

Tin can lid, dried chicken bones,
sinew, glass beads and date pit...
on top of college of weather maps,
along with drawn migration route from southern California into southern Utah...

E.T.G.C.G.T.T.  ???????
meekness and lowliness of heart...
Charity is something one becomes
well that's the Bears Ears...
look not behind thee.
ask God for Truth...
FB deactivated...
keep a record by my own hand...
the Lord does not command us to do things without a way for us to accomplish what he asks.

get out my older canon G5 digital camera and start using again...
potstickers and rice for supper...
nothing on TV and finished reading my current books...
more to come later after i catch-up on some good sleep.
                                                                                                     CHEERS