do you have a spoon rest?

do you have a spoon rest? do you use it? do you like it? do you have it and not use it? do you not have one? what do you use then? i have one. i always find it to be in the way ... except when i am using it .. and then i love it .... maybe it is supposed to be stowed in a utensil drawer and pulled out as needed ... but mine is always out .... 

i've been working on making spoon rests at a friends request .... here are two of the four i made ....

dobby

i used to have dixie in my blog posts all the time .... i don't think i've ever shown dobby. 

i love her.

two bowls

turquoise textured bowl ... quite small... 

actually celadon over blue ...

 orange bowl ... quite big ... 

actually orange underglaze washed off to show texture with clear glaze .. all on chocolate clay ... 

 size perspective... big and little.... 

rainbow assemblage

i have a new series that i made just for myself to put on the one white wall i have in my house .... 

it all came about because i was "cleaning" my studio .... which really means rummaging through the stuff that i am meant to be cleaning and sorting .... and i was struck by the rainbow happiness of it all .... and it wasn't long before i was sorting things by color .... and then it was a small leap to painting canvases to showcase the fun .... the hardest part was deciding what size to go ... and i went big ... these are all 24 inches square .... 

the red one was the easiest ... apparently lots of fun things come in red .... i had to sort out what not to put in the composition .... that elephant up top fell off .... but while he waited on top to get re adhered, i decided i really loved him up there ... 

 the orange one is my fave because ... well, because it is orange .... but also the monopoly cards down the left side .... i have happy memories of monopoly games with my brothers that would take days and days and days to complete .... and then the clever scrabble rack at the bottom holding orange bottle caps makes me happy too...

 in my art studio i have a cheerios small box that is embellished and embroidered and beaded ... for real ... this cheerios box on yellow has been saved for 10ish years to do the same .... but alas, one beaded cheerio box was enough ... how odd that i kept this one for so long ... that's why you do assemblages....

this green one has mona lisa and sun glasses .... and the coolest bingo board with sliding red windows .... and an old housekey .... i played risk with my brothers ...i'm certain i never, ever, ever, ever won.

this one has an actual doll on it .. i'm pretty sure she's from a happy meal ... could that possible be right if she is porcelain? i kept her because she was so fancy and i swear my memory says she came with a kid meal somewhere .... and that paintbrush is the most awesome sort .... and i wrecked it ... but i generally keep wrecked ones cause there is always something you can do with them ... the bottom right hand corner could be my safe .... i could put secret important things in that metal box and no one would ever think to look there .... except my two or three blog readers ....