Wire Desk Dwellers

Thank you to Christina & Alyza for awesoming up their workspaces with wire creations of mine!

LEASHES!!!!

Theses leashes are really taking off! 

I have a multiple orders for them!

Hand made in a variety of colors. 

Triple or Quadruple braided with carabiners or regular dog leash clips.

Paracord Dog Collar & Leash

Mack looks stylish in his paracord collar!

5, 16ft lengths of 550lb paracord were used, 

along with a large heavyduty plastic seat belt buckle! 

3,  16ft lengths of 550lb paracord wove braided together and made into 

large dog collars! 

Sketch Book!!

Goat!

Giant Milk Bone vs Dog with a Chain saw! 

who ya got! 

(and to point out, that even cartoons are concerned with safety. Note the gloves & goggles!)

so remember kids, if yer gonna let your dog use a chainsaw, make sure he's wearing the proper saftey gear!

A Duck in a Penguin Suit!

This is an old drawing I found whilst cleaning / packing.

This drawing makes me smile.I drew it for Kelly. 

She makes me smile too

Manbat!

I did this sketch most recently, in pen on brown craft paper!

It came out fairly well, . . 

especially since I haven't really picked up a pen or pencil in quite some time.

I am a bit rusty : /

A dopey looking Giraffe! 

Wire Lizard !

**A work in progress**

A little bit bigger than a full grown cat. About 2000 ft (so far) of wire was used. This is coming along fairly quickly. I'm having a good time with this piece.

More pics to follow

An Ant with a Sprinkle!

I got this cool pic while at a recent craft faire! I looked down an this little guy was working very hard to get this big prize back home!

Little Octopus & GIANT OCTOPUS!

I'm working on the biggest sculpture I've ever done. 

I didn't really give much thought as to how to display something this big, but any hoo!

He's got an app 3 ft diameter and is about 13' tall. 

He's still under construction, but will be done soon! 

So far I've used close to about 600 ft of wire. 

 In the middle of making him, I made a tiny "doodle"

with a neo-dymium magnet on the bottom of him,

so I can stick him (well them, I'm gonna make more little ones!)

to the big one!  Or stick  the "doodles" on the fridge!   

I'm going to incorporate l.e.d's into my work in the future.

I like how my work looks illuminated! and the shadows are a nice extra!

 

(more) Fauxtography

It's been a while since I've posted. And even longer since I've posted actually photos

here are few (glorified Instagram pics) but I like them.

Hopefully you do too!

CRAFT FAIRE ! ! !

Copper Beach Elementary School had their Spring Faire on Saturday May 4th 

(may the 4th be with you!) Your's truley was there with a table! Had a great turn out!

Thank you to Wendy Kaye, the director of the event for invitation! 

and to husband Daniel & son Aiden!

Thank you to Laura, Amber & Cassie for stopping by!

and an extra special thanks to Kelly for sharing a nice day in the sun with me!! 

Maxim !

My gorgeous friend Gina Ruggieri !

*You can follow her on Twitter @OfficialGina*

She's is the Jan / Feb issue of Maxim magazine. 

She's a model, bartender & hostess, and a one helluva talent ! 

Here she is holding her Maxim page, that I framed for her!

The frame moulding compliments of Rich Godshall 

from "Off the Wall Framing" Skippack P.A

P-a-r-a-c-o-r-d

Paracord is an interesting and multi purposed material.

It comes in a few different weights the kind pictured above has a strength rating of 550lbs. It's thin nylon strands spun together to make thicker strands and then about 10 of those strands in side of colored nylon tube. 

Premade bracelets can purchased on-line or at such retailers as Dick's Sporting Goods & E.M.S (to name a few) and any of the premade bracelts that are dual colored don not undo it one piece of cording. So not all to functional. You can also order bundles of cording, or spools. (E.M.S has rock climbing cord that has silimar properties & weight tolerances. 

Keychains, lanyard, zipper pulls, boot / shoelaces (yes, laces!) sweatpants / hoodie strings.

It can used to make dog collars (the large yellow & grey coil) bracelets. Which are called Survival Bracelets. They can be undone to produce one piece of functional, strong line (and if unravelled further still the thin strands can (probably) be used as suture material. The red & black bracelet in the middle is app 26' of black cording with the red being just the nylon shell (it's flatter and there for more easily woven through the finished bracelet for decoration. It's the one I wear!

They're fun, easy to make and go together quickly. 

J e w e l r y !

Machine smoothed black stone (upper left)

Onyx arrowhead (middle top)

Small chunk of Amnethyst (upper right)

The Quartz pendant from the previous post (bottom right)

A sand smoothed sea shell (say that 5 times fast) (middle right) 

A sand smoothed piece of beach glass  (bottom left)

( unfortunately it wasn't colored glass, I hear there's a market for that )

All wrapped with heavy gauge chromed wire! These were really fun to make, . 

hopefully they won't become dust collectors, but will soon be adorning the necks and or cleavage of some lovely lady because some caring man bought it for them. . 

hint,  hint, hint