Showing posts with label faux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faux. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, July 28, 2008
A day off!!
I'm actually taking a day off for me!! A mental health day, if you will. Really though, it's a physical health day, I'm not kidding! I woke up yesterday with a sore throat and itchy eyes! 
Today, I'm feeling like shit!
I had planned on working in the bathroom again today, but the fact that the neighbor - sweetheart of a guy - 
is over and working on finishing up the plumbing. No way can I be in there working too!! I'd asked Nancy a couple of weeks ago to ask him if he'd give her a pointer or two on finishing up the shower surround, and next thing we knew, he was taking the plumbing apart and putting in new! Yeeeah Haaaaaw!!! 
I doubted she would be able to figure it out on her own! LOL!
I simply adore this woman though!
No one can hold a candle up to her! 
She isn't all that handy - is all... she is willing and able and learning stuff all around here though, and that is a good thing for all of us! Curt helping is a good thing! She is learning so much just by hanging out with him! After they are done, the bathroom will be good to go! No more mold and no more plastic duct-taped over the hole in the wall! 
So anyway, it's a "no go" for me to be painting in there today, while he is soldering copper! No way! It's way too freaking small in there!
Now, I could have gone up to see what Mom is up to.......
but she has a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 3:30. I plan on leaving right after I get done work tomorrow to go up to her place. I'm anxious about this appointment tomorrow and I know she is too!
........ I didn't go up though today, I chose to stay home and lay on the freaking couch - all - day - long, and do abso-freakin'-nothing!!
--- NOTHING TODAY ---
except rest and bead!!
YIPPEE SKIPPEE!!!!!
These are two faux turquoise cabochons I made months ago!
I recently started beading a seed bead flower-like bezel around these two large ones. I also have a bunch of smaller cabs that will, along with these finished two, be incorporated in to a much larger, elaborate collar.
I haven't been able to bead or clay for months and months now due to my TWO shoulders enduring torn rotator cuffs!
BOTH where bad, bad tears! I had to wear the large pillow sling for a total of at least six weeks! On BOTH sides! Not to mention that my bicep on my right arm was hanging on by a thread!! Last summer/ fall I was so lame for so long! It was easily Christmas time before I was able to lift my right arm over my head, pain free! My surgery was July 18th last year. This years surgery on my left arm was April 23rd. Today is July 28th, 10 weeks after surgery - I can pinwheel my arm and shoulder, pain free! Yes, PAIN FREE!!! 
It's amazing how much quicker my left arm is healing compared to the mess of my right, last summer!
WOW!
Today, I'm feeling like shit!
I had planned on working in the bathroom again today, but the fact that the neighbor - sweetheart of a guy - is over and working on finishing up the plumbing. No way can I be in there working too!! I'd asked Nancy a couple of weeks ago to ask him if he'd give her a pointer or two on finishing up the shower surround, and next thing we knew, he was taking the plumbing apart and putting in new! Yeeeah Haaaaaw!!! I doubted she would be able to figure it out on her own! LOL!I simply adore this woman though!
No one can hold a candle up to her! She isn't all that handy - is all... she is willing and able and learning stuff all around here though, and that is a good thing for all of us! Curt helping is a good thing! She is learning so much just by hanging out with him! After they are done, the bathroom will be good to go! No more mold and no more plastic duct-taped over the hole in the wall! So anyway, it's a "no go" for me to be painting in there today, while he is soldering copper! No way! It's way too freaking small in there!
Now, I could have gone up to see what Mom is up to.......
but she has a doctor's appointment tomorrow at 3:30. I plan on leaving right after I get done work tomorrow to go up to her place. I'm anxious about this appointment tomorrow and I know she is too!
........ I didn't go up though today, I chose to stay home and lay on the freaking couch - all - day - long, and do abso-freakin'-nothing!!
--- NOTHING TODAY ---
except rest and bead!!
YIPPEE SKIPPEE!!!!!
These are two faux turquoise cabochons I made months ago!I recently started beading a seed bead flower-like bezel around these two large ones. I also have a bunch of smaller cabs that will, along with these finished two, be incorporated in to a much larger, elaborate collar.
I haven't been able to bead or clay for months and months now due to my TWO shoulders enduring torn rotator cuffs!
BOTH where bad, bad tears! I had to wear the large pillow sling for a total of at least six weeks! On BOTH sides! Not to mention that my bicep on my right arm was hanging on by a thread!! Last summer/ fall I was so lame for so long! It was easily Christmas time before I was able to lift my right arm over my head, pain free! My surgery was July 18th last year. This years surgery on my left arm was April 23rd. Today is July 28th, 10 weeks after surgery - I can pinwheel my arm and shoulder, pain free! Yes, PAIN FREE!!! It's amazing how much quicker my left arm is healing compared to the mess of my right, last summer!WOW!
Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.
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Thanks!! Connie
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Trudging along.....
Kind of a neat picture of a guy trudging along on wet sand in this "flickr find" I found - Mom has been sick and not getting better for a few weeks now. We went to a "quick care" place a week ago, she had all sorts of tests and internal pictures done with no releif from the scripts he gave! *sigh* Then, Tuesday we went to her regular doctor, except he was on vacation, so we saw a PAC and Dr. who was on call... had more tests done and another ex ray done! Yesterday I was expecting some news from this doc on call and found that NOTHING was conclusive about her diagnoses! OY! So we now have another appointment on Tuesday afternoon to see her regular doctor who knows her! *SIGH* She is, among other things, having trouble breathing. Could it possibly have anything to do with decades of smoking!!??
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder... Nancy and I've been working so hard to get the bathroom done so we can move her down here! It seems as if we are the guy in that picture trudging through wet sand! Akk!
It just seems to be the project that is taking FOREVER to finish!!! AKK!!! All I want to do is get her, her bed, her recliner and her TV down here so I can take car of of her!! I'm worried sick about her being alone when she isn't feeling well!
So, Monday I was off and I worked on the fauxing of the bathroom walls again. I got a good chunk of it finished. This morning I worked in there for a bit too. Here's a pic of the unpainted interior door with some of my faux work.I have been scheduled for over 30 hours this week and will get probably get close to that many next week too! Covering other folks vacations. Good for my wallet, bad for my time to work on the bathroom!
I REALLY like the richness of the look on the walls!! I plan on waxing and buffing the walls as a final step in my process. Nancy is having a difficult time picturing what the final room will look like.I've decided that the woodwork and trim is going to be yellow.... so I played with the last picture in my photo editing program to give her and all you blog readers an idea of what the cabinet and trim will look like in yellow.
Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.
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Thanks!! Connie
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Polymer Clay Creativity Workshops!
Polymer Clay Creativity Workshops!Taught by Connie of “Constance Pelkey Designs”
Workshop dates:
September 13 & 14 ~ or ~ October 11 & 12
Polymer Clay offers a rich and varied playground for artists of all ages and skills. It is a medium that appears almost eager to please, allowing its use in a surprisingly wide range of styles and rendering techniques.
It can be made into flat collage illustrations and surface decorations of all sorts. It's also great for sculpting figures, creating decorative household items or beads and personal adornment.
These workshops take the students from the beginning basics of working with Polymer Clay to an intensive look at the wide variety of creative uses and embellishment potentials of polymer clay.
A wide array of techniques will be covered. Included are basics of preparation, color blending and simple "cane work" or millefiore. Then we will move to surface decorating techniques like mokume gane (a technique taken from Japanese metal and wood working) stamping, inclusions, ghost imaging, texturing and faux effects (mimicking bone, wood, turquoise, etc). Storage and baking, safety issues, and finishing options will also be covered.
Each workshop will be given as a two day session (ten total hours) with technique demonstrations by the teacher and plenty of student 'hands on' work time. We will start off with polymer clay basics and work our way to more in-depth detail of the various surface embellishment techniques. Students will ultimately make a variety of bead "samplers" and decorate small storage boxes with mosaic tiles and pieces using the techniques learned in class.
Students will need:
a healthy curiosity and willingness to have FUN!
a work surface (acrylic plate, ceramic tile or other similar non porous surface)
other tools as desired, including, but not necessary; a pasta machine
Many tools and supplies such as clay, foils, powders, inks and stamps, texture plates. and more will be provided for use in class.
There will be two motorized pasta machines available.
Ovo-Lacto Vegetarian, sugar free lunches will be provided. Bring your own drinks.
Unfortunately my studio is not handicap accessible, as it's located on the second floor of my home. If you can not do stairs, PLEASE let me know and we can arrange a time and price for me to come to you!
COST OF TWO DAY WORKSHOP IS $135
TO REGISTER FOR A WORKSHOP PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL:
conniepelkey@gmail.com 207.333.1145
Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.
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Thanks!! Connie
Friday, July 18, 2008
Bathroom update.
Yesterday I finished up painting the walls in the bathroom. I still have to do the faux work and then paint the second coat of the wood work. After that is done all the painting in there will be finished.
Tomorrow and Saturday Nancy will work on the shower surround.
We still have to pick out fabric for the shower curtain topper, a sink "skirt" and a valence, I'll be making these.
I'll also make some pieces of art for the small walls behind and next to the toilet.
I'll also have to fabricate some kind of light fixture shades.
Colors?? Patterns??? Decisions we'll both have to make!
PHEW!!
The cutting in of the top of the walls.
The wall color before fauxing.
Wall color after fauxing.
Tomorrow and Saturday Nancy will work on the shower surround.
We still have to pick out fabric for the shower curtain topper, a sink "skirt" and a valence, I'll be making these.
I'll also make some pieces of art for the small walls behind and next to the toilet.
I'll also have to fabricate some kind of light fixture shades.
Colors?? Patterns??? Decisions we'll both have to make!
PHEW!!
The cutting in of the top of the walls.
The wall color before fauxing.
Wall color after fauxing.
Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.
This bloggy feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this content in a news reader or on a website related to Constance Pelkey Designs, this site is in violation of copyright!
Thanks!! Connie
Monday, July 14, 2008
Painting the bathroom.
Here's a few shots of my work from today. Tomorrow morning I work until 10 and then it's up to Mom's. She's been feeling poorly, the humidity is really kicking her ass this summer and she's been having bronchial troubles.
I work again Wednesday morning until 10 and then I'll work some more on the walls in here in the afternoon.
The bathroom - looking in the door, after texturing, before painting.
Standing at the toilet, looking out into the dining room.
Cutting in the sky blue ceiling.
More ceiling and some of the unfinished shower surround.
The sky is blue... and still wet.
After cutting in, rolling and then touching up the ceiling - twice! - it's acoustic tiles! - AKK!! - my arms were waaay too tired to do any detail work, so I just rolled out some of the fields on the walls. My shoulder is doing soooooo well, but working over head is VERY tiring, still!!
Looking back out to the dining room.
Close up of the texturing. Before you judge, be certain to wait on the final effect. The color looks like baby poop smeared on the walls at this point! There will be a darker color glaze wiped on and then off for an antiquing faux effect.
Here's the ugly tile surfaces (in the pictures above and below this text) that will be covered with polymer clay tiles of suns and Saguaro cactus and then 2 part epoxy resin will be poured over them to make them water proof.
All the trim work and cabinets will remain the lighter color with no faux-ing on them. I'll also cover the door knobs and drawer pulls in polymer clay to match the colors.
I work again Wednesday morning until 10 and then I'll work some more on the walls in here in the afternoon.
The bathroom - looking in the door, after texturing, before painting.
Standing at the toilet, looking out into the dining room.
Cutting in the sky blue ceiling.
More ceiling and some of the unfinished shower surround.
The sky is blue... and still wet.
After cutting in, rolling and then touching up the ceiling - twice! - it's acoustic tiles! - AKK!! - my arms were waaay too tired to do any detail work, so I just rolled out some of the fields on the walls. My shoulder is doing soooooo well, but working over head is VERY tiring, still!!
Looking back out to the dining room.
Close up of the texturing. Before you judge, be certain to wait on the final effect. The color looks like baby poop smeared on the walls at this point! There will be a darker color glaze wiped on and then off for an antiquing faux effect.
Here's the ugly tile surfaces (in the pictures above and below this text) that will be covered with polymer clay tiles of suns and Saguaro cactus and then 2 part epoxy resin will be poured over them to make them water proof.
All the trim work and cabinets will remain the lighter color with no faux-ing on them. I'll also cover the door knobs and drawer pulls in polymer clay to match the colors.
Copyright © 2008 by Constance Pelkey.
This bloggy feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this content in a news reader or on a website related to Constance Pelkey Designs, this site is in violation of copyright!
Thanks!! Connie
Monday, June 02, 2008
Creativity and time
So, I've been thinking a lot lately about creativity. I haven't been able to work in my studio for any length of time in the last few weeks. I miss it. When I'm doing other things, like caulking, taping, painting, cleaning brushes, vacuuming up paint chips etc... I daydream about working in the studio. I have a couple ideas running around in my head, like polymer clay critter faces in sea shells, (I have a big box full of shells, have had 'em for years now and suddenly they are calling my name) wooden box purses, lined with fleece and flannel, and sewing up a new pair of lounge pants using a comfy pair I already own and really love as a pattern. Beading projects are roaming around in my head, I have a pile of necklaces that either need repair or finishing. I have some faux turquoise cabochons 
that need some kind of bezels, I'd like for one of them to be a PMC one and another to have silver seed beads peyote'd around it, and perhaps that becoming the focal of a free form piece??
*SIGH*
Even after we get the rooms up stairs painted, we are then moving down into the bathroom to finish it, and then back upstairs to the new living room, then back down here in the downstairs double living room. After that I'll start moving my studio upstairs. THEN I'll be packing up Mom in preparation for her to move down here.
I'm not anticipating being able to get back to my studio until - maybe the fall?? *pout*
That doesn't mean I won't be making and working on things, it's just that my studio will be upside down for a while and I'll work out of boxes. *sigh* I *thought* I finally had a permanently dedicated studio space in this house. Nope. I'll have come full circle after this next move. My stuff will have been in 4 different places, one will be the second time around.
*dream* A dedicated studio space in our new place in the southwest. *heaven*
So, I'm wondering how in the heck do you all find time to be creative on stuff just for you??
In the meantime, I've been shopping for new bedding. I found this 12 piece Bed in a Bag on line at smartbargains.com. We really like it and think it will go well in our new room!
*squeeeee!*
~~~
Connie
that need some kind of bezels, I'd like for one of them to be a PMC one and another to have silver seed beads peyote'd around it, and perhaps that becoming the focal of a free form piece??*SIGH*
Even after we get the rooms up stairs painted, we are then moving down into the bathroom to finish it, and then back upstairs to the new living room, then back down here in the downstairs double living room. After that I'll start moving my studio upstairs. THEN I'll be packing up Mom in preparation for her to move down here.
I'm not anticipating being able to get back to my studio until - maybe the fall?? *pout*
That doesn't mean I won't be making and working on things, it's just that my studio will be upside down for a while and I'll work out of boxes. *sigh* I *thought* I finally had a permanently dedicated studio space in this house. Nope. I'll have come full circle after this next move. My stuff will have been in 4 different places, one will be the second time around.
*dream* A dedicated studio space in our new place in the southwest. *heaven*
So, I'm wondering how in the heck do you all find time to be creative on stuff just for you??
In the meantime, I've been shopping for new bedding. I found this 12 piece Bed in a Bag on line at smartbargains.com. We really like it and think it will go well in our new room!
*squeeeee!*
~~~
Connie
Thursday, May 08, 2008
faux-pal and fauxquoise
Or Faux Opal and Faux Turquoise. Here is my mornings work of my versions of faux opal and turquoise I made.
This is taken just as they are going in to the oven. They still need to be baked, iced, tumbled, acrylic painted , buffed, drilled, strung, PMC bezeled, finished and foto'ed.
Just thought I'd share my works in progress today. *G*
This afternoon I plan on taking more finished work photo's out on the deck. Yesterday I got all of 3 finished and my batteries died! Simply MUST get more rechargeables!! Arrggghh!!
This is taken just as they are going in to the oven. They still need to be baked, iced, tumbled, acrylic painted , buffed, drilled, strung, PMC bezeled, finished and foto'ed.
Just thought I'd share my works in progress today. *G*
This afternoon I plan on taking more finished work photo's out on the deck. Yesterday I got all of 3 finished and my batteries died! Simply MUST get more rechargeables!! Arrggghh!!
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