I am delighted to report that my recovery from my neck surgery ten days ago has been rapid and amazing. Chronic aches and pains previously endured are gone. The feeling has largely returned to my hands. Freed from pain, I have a lot more energy. The toughest challenge is to not overdo things as I continue to heal. My family and crew keep a close eye on me to make sure that happens. I look forward to being able to drive once again by the middle of next week! In the meantime, I am spending lots of time at my design table, dreaming up concepts for a variety of projects we will be tackling in the future.
Little Miss Muffet
We are fabricating a piece for one of the large raised planters in the Storybook Land of Vala’s Pumpkin Patch will be Little Miss Muffet. Access to this area is a challenge and so we are striving to make the piece as light as possible to make it a little easier for the installation crew. The feature will still have a welded steel frame but we will skin it with two coats of sculpting epoxy. I got a good start on the armature today and by tomorrow we hope to begin slathering on the first coat of epoxy. Stay tuned to watch this fun piece come together…
Bracket extraordinaire!
We believe that brackets that hold up signs should be part of the sign. The bracket should help tell the story. The Lolo’s Fudgery sign and bracket is a great example. Typically the sign and bracket would be bolted to an existing post. We will instead build the bracket and sign and then weld this to an underlying structure. Then we’ll sculpt the gnarly tree that ‘holds it up’. This is going to be a fun project! Stay tuned…
