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Sermons and Seeds
The dVerse poetry prompt today is all about the pantoum poetry form. As explained by Gina on the dVerse Poetry blog, the pantoum is a series of interwoven quatrains and rhyming couplets. I won’t elaborate further than that (‘cuz I’d just confuse … Continue reading
Unpremeditated
I’m trying to catch up in the National Poetry Writing Month challenge. Here’s NaPoWriMo Challenge, Day 20: “Write a poem that involves rebellion in some way.” One suggested approach was to write the poem in a way that rebels against … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, daily prompt, poetry, technique
Tagged NaPoWriMo 2018, poetry challenge
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Take Two
Here’s another take on Days Five and Six of the NaPoWriMo challenge, combined. Same photo, different poem, different experiment with line breaks. feel this day with the soft touch of your gentle eyes inhale this view; safeguard the scent … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, daily prompt, poetry, technique
Tagged appreciation, NaPoWriMo 2018, poetry, senses, view
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“Rued” Awakening
You wake me in the morning and it’s always too early, as though I had only just found sleep and had just chosen my dream and then – boom! – here you are and there’s the light coming through the … Continue reading
Posted in creativity, daily prompt, poetry, technique
Tagged alarm clock, awakening, curtains, NaPoWriMo 2018, poetry challenge
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Curved Glass Candle
.. in the making: The Daily Post weekly photo challenge: Curve
Posted in Design, technique, weekly photo challenge
Tagged curve, stained glass construction, weekly photo challenge
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Chiseled Features
Art comes in many media and creative techniques. These three faces were carved from logs with chain saws, with final touches added by chisel. The first two represent lumberjacks. And the third is none other than Sasquatch (Big Foot) himself. … Continue reading
Posted in Art as Art, creativity, technique, weekly photo challenge
Tagged Camp 18, lumberjacks, weekly photo challenge, wood carvings
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U Came, U Sawed, U Conquered!
You know about Tiffany and his lamps, and how the lamps are put together with copper foil? Well, before Tiffany came along and foiled everything, there was came. Here’s a little description of came. Came 101, if you will. Came … Continue reading
Posted in technique
Tagged atozchallenge, H came, lead came, stained glass, stained glass construction, U came
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Fids Flatten Foil
For me, one of the best things about taking up stained glass has been learning the word “fid.” Scrabble, anyone? Sure, it’s only three letters, but that little word has helped me limp along on the Scrabble board more than … Continue reading
Posted in technique
Tagged atozchallenge, copper foil, fid, foil, stained glass, technique
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Experimenting in the 90s
NOTE: Stained glass photos in this post are from scans of 3×5 inch prints taken a loooong time ago by a not very apt photographer (me). I apologize for the quality (or lack thereof) and small size of the detail … Continue reading
Posted in Breaking Glass, creativity, humor, technique
Tagged 1998, atozchallenge, experiment, glass kiln, stained glass
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