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Oh my gosh!! That was such a fun video ryan! and obviously an amazing project! thanks for sharing

Thanks Cassie!

I recently finished crocheting another beanie hat! It's gonna come in handy when I go up north for college!

that's beautiful Dave! I want one!

Art has many forms, including poetry. Here's a poem I wrote and recently edited.


The Children’s Desperation: an Ode to Jim Morrison

Lost is the stranger’s hand
needed to lift them from the sucking mire.
They reach and grasp only darkness
in the desperate land with no guide
to lead the children out from their madness.

All the crystal ships have sailed
away and foundered, their bilges’ cargo
displaced with the icy waters of loss
leaving behind the promise,
the elaborate plans,
and the children stand within empty
gold mines that echo
of carnality and extraction.

Coming is the Roman forfeiture,
their place in time surrendered
because the lusts they embraced failed
to make them limitless and free.
Their days now wildernesses of pain,
and the children truly are insane.

The gentle wisps that gave contrast
to the blue above hinted
at the hopeful summer rain.
But they lied, these clouds that promised
the needed cleansing downpour
that never came. And now the
children are left standing bewildered,
reeking of sweat and musk frothed
from their revelry and debauched play.

Some children will return indoors easily
forgetting why they danced
under the golden sun bright in energy.
Other children will yet wander in search
of morsels to taste and sate themselves
also forgetting why they danced.
Still others now plod on with powdery dust
puffing at each footfall, having marched
into pragmatism and the gnawing
thought of their dichotomy.

Those children whose voice sang loudest,
their passion flowing from the font of their breast,
are yet left standing in sorrow
with dusty palms uplifted, scanning the horizon.
These for whom the sky seemed to turn
and the daffodil seemed to sprout and blossom.
These are the desperate ones
who still fail to believe the diseased condition
of the creation they worship,
the utterly fallen and depraved bedrock
they found themselves upon.

Reading through my books has been kind of slowing down because I've really caught the crafting bug!!! It's very fun! This also usually happens to me around Xmas time b/c I'm too cheap to buy gifts! No really! I refuse to spend money on gifts!

So here's some stuff I have been working on for the past couple of weeks!

The first item is a pet bed/carrier I made from a half-finished crochet project that I started last year. It is made of old fabric scraps from when I was on Costume Crew in high school, and I turned the scraps into yarn which I then crocheted into a giant rectangle. That rectangle was recently bent and folded around into shape and crocheted tightly into place to be what it is now! This would be ideal for a small dog, cat, or other small critters. I have no pets, so the pet bed/carrier is in search of a good home!

Here's a second legging that I made! I made one legging a year ago, and then I ran out of yarn. So, I decided to make a second legging b/c one legging by itself isn't very useful.

Now to my most recent project which I started and completed today! I crocheted a little pouch out of plastic. I ran out yarn after the legging was made, so I'm now improvising my yarn. Currently, it is plastic, and once my ball of plastic yarn that I made runs out, I'm going to make a ball of yarn from clothes I ruined beyond sending to GoodWill from when I helped out on Set Crew in high school.

If anyone wants any of the things I've made, please purple mooseage me!

Great to see everyones work....Love it! Just getting my pottery shop going.....and getting new studio whipped into shape. Keep posting your Art![

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I think my art comes out in many forms. I am a carpenter/cabinet maker/wood sign carver and I go by the name Practical Madman. My sign art can be seen at www.practicalmadman.com. I also play guitar and write songs, but I have never gotten very far with recording them. My wife also plays several insturments and writes songs, and together we have a play list of about 10 originals ready to record. You know how life is, we got busy and never got around to it and we hardly every play together anymore, but I can still play the guitar and make people say "Wow".

Here are a couple dog portraits I did, embroidery on linen:

Fossil fish embroidery on linen:

Stumpwork hedgie, embroidery on linen.

Tufted Coquette, embroidery on linen