Monday, May 9, 2011

My Device

It appears that my device, which I submitted while at Gulf Wars this year, has passed through all the hurtles.



I'm grinning from ear to ear.

Although I know in medieval times devices were generally just given to someone, without their input and generally without much meaning, I chose the elements of mine to convey two separate, but very distinct meanings.

With my vocation being that of a grazier, I wanted my device to read similar to that of signs seen hanging in front of businesses of the time. Thus, the background stands for the fields where the livestock graze, the blue the stream from which they drink, the shock of wheat the grain grown for livestock feed (as well as human food) and the lamb for the livestock.

As a Christian my device takes on a very different meaning. The green represents the everlasting (like the evergreen at Christmas time), the blue stream a 'river of living water', wheat the 'bread of life' and, of course, the lamb 'the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ'.

Friday, March 11, 2011

My Close Stool


The design for my camping close stool was inspired by this chair.

The insert is a 5 gal bucket. A matching 5 gal bucket will hold the peat moss used for the humanure composting.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

My Homemade Inkle Loom

After extensively searching the 'Net for information about inkle looms I finally came up with a drawing that I felt would meet my wants and needs. One of those needs was to able to produce 4 continuous yards of trim.



Our prototype is built from scrap oak that was left over from a set of book shelves my husband built last year. After using my loom for several projects and getting feedback from a master weaver, it was decided that the tensioner should be made from a much larger dowel, the two uppermost dowels should be at least half again as large and the uprights should be double the thickness they are now as the back one is twisting when tension is put on its top dowel.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Lighting In My Tent

   
1 of a pair of chandeliers my husband and I built based on this painting   Video showing the battery operated candles in action

Monday, November 22, 2010