Cat Head Sculptures

Not everyone wants or needs a planter, but still wants a cat!  I went on a tear pinching out these little sculptures, using dried seed pods and random tools to make depressions on the surfaces.

Greenware

Adding red iron oxide and underglaze

Finished litter

Oh, hi!

Great as a planter pal or garden buddy.

Yarrow

Yarrow

This yarrow was picked in my backyard, a transfer from a neighbor's house.  Right now flowers are a big joy in my life, because I can finally grow some due to a few trees being cut down and finally getting some sun.  It's a big deal for this country girl to grow a thing.

Made It: Experimentals & Flower Clocks

I've been tinkering around with many different materials the last couple weeks.  First, let's see some new desk clocks:

California Poppy

Field Daisy

Partridge-Peas

Thistle

Mayflower

I found a 1964 field guide to North America's wild flowers, and the images are just the perfect size to fit my mini table top clocks.  They're listed on Etsy.  I want to make a gazillion more, but I also want to make a different line of work that is categorized as "non-clock" and I'm really trying to actually plan this stuff out.  So I've been having fun playing around.

Here's some of the prototypes:

Large painted nails and string from the barn, leftover wood for the frame,
and salvaged painted wood as the backer.

8 x 10 matboard, early 1900s booklet pages, paint, vinyl.

5 x 7 matboard, painted hymnal page, vinyl.

5 x 7 matboard, 1970s seed catalog page, paint, vinyl.

I don't know quite where I'm going yet with the nail things, but I'm ruminating...I really like the TV and the skeletons, which will fit in with my small anatomical hearts...

But here's a biggie!
10 x 12 including frame; found wood, paint, "fabric paper," vinyl

I have many more painted papers to play with, so watch out!

I'm getting ready for a yard sale this weekend--my first ever!  There are two or three bins of old art I'm going to try to unload and maybe some clocks that just never sold but are fine otherwise.  If you're in KC, check out the Hyde Park Neighborhood Yard Sale on Saturday, June 14th (my half-birthday, BTW, in case you want to drop by some cupcakes or half of a whole cake).  Hopefully it won't be sweltering and/or raining...?

Found It: Garden Decor

I've found lots of cool planters and outdoorsy decoration on my picking adventures. 

Let me share.

For plants or a nice flower vase/centerpiece.



Hang it!  For birds or plants or pixies or gnomes.



Someone in Texas purchased this before Easter...
perhaps for an Easter basket to collect eggs?  I hope.

It's incredible how well some of this stuff cleans up after decades in the dirt.

This has sold, but I love the old oil pitcher.  I hope it's donning someone's window sill with wild flowers.

You can see all the cool home decor items I've listed so far in The Retro Ranch's Etsy shop.