I thought I would start a new blog and just do some rambling here, anybody got a good subject? Well since in the video post some items were brough up I thought I would just go on.

Joe you are completely right about having the full menu. I always try to bring an appetizer or two. My restaurant though has the cloth napkins.

I made this bird a few weeks back and finally got a chance to take some pictures. Not the best pictures, but at least I have some of it now. My attempt at a Great Blue Heron.
Made from 32 ounce copper, weighs about 55 pounds, wingspan is 60 inches and 39 inches to the top of the head.

Some of us when kids dreamed of flying. The guys would think they were Superman, or an airplane and make noise, or just float. The girls thought they had butterfly wings or were a fairy. For me I would put on my WW II flying goggles, as I got ready to step off of a ledge (usually a curb) I would get my feathers.............and dream on.

Here are some vessels that I finished up last week. I tried a few different things.

 First one is a bowl around 11 inches and on a little base. Here I did a little chasing and ended up with a star at the bottom. Patina is a mix of liver of sulphur (LOS) and ammonia chloride. Blue bowl

Here is the latest commission project that I have been working on. I started it around the first of November than got side tracked for a while. Just getting it rough up in the second pic to see how it lays out. It is a shadow box type wall sculpture 25 inch wide and 58 inch high and 31/2 deep. It is made from 18ga P&O sheet metal. Frame is 12 ga. It took me a while but I finally think I figured out how to make the pews. Still one yet to do. Oh yeah this is a church (title of the post) and see this pic shows the concept that I came up. It is to go on wall in the priest's office. concept