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  • Of Trees and Roots and Names of Things

    When my grandpa Averill bought property on Wolf Lake in the Irish Hills of Michigan in the early 40s, he picked the choice lot for himself, and then parceled out smaller lots along the lake edge in a little barony he named “Averill’s Basswood Terrace”. (My grandpa liked to see…

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  • Make 10: Lined an old steamer trunk.

    This is the ” before”  picture. We went to a junk-and-poultry farm auction in Dundee one Saturday, looking for gears and dials for the steampunk-our-bathroom project,…

  • Make 9: Butter dish.

    Tonight’s slab project demo. Textured slab laid over a rolling pin for the cover… ends cut to fit. Textured slab base.  I just got home…

  • Make 8: Ceramics class demos

    Today’s Owens College demos: a tall cylinder form using a textured slab (pillow lid with rattly-balls inside) – on my clearly labeled shelf.  Also, I made some…

  • Make 7: Outlet cover

    Another outlet cover for the bathroom steampunk project. I used an antique dictionary whose pages are coming unbound.