Spent some time painting pencils for my kiddos! I love to make back to school an exciting and special time.
This is a new Discovery Tote design I added to my shop this month. It was a custom order for a classroom in Australia. I really loved the way it turned out! The volcano is large, around 11 inches and the tote is an extra large size, measuring around 30 inches when open. This is great for multiple children in a classroom setting or at home.
Working on some new work in my metals studio, in the meantime full-filling some Discovery Tote Orders to be shipped to Australia!
We bought a 26 foot O'day! So exited to be a new owner of this beautiful boat. The plan is to sail a bout' Kentucky lake with dreams of sailing around the world one day, Australia to be specific. Maybe this week is a bit of coincidence?
Some pictures from my most recent workshop with some 10-13 year old budding metalsmiths at the MAG. They have been incredible focused and have created some one of a kind pieces for themselves along with learning the skill of sawing and breaking blades and replacing blades and breaking and replacing without one compliant of the process!! Love this age group!
Exploring drips and drops I have found this recurring shape in my work. I am working on some new pendant pieces that focus on more of a splat. This came about from a project I taught this past semester using ink splats and drips on paper then blew with a straw. We tapped into our inner Surrealist persona to "see into" the drips and create a series of images that were in the end identifiable beyond a drip.
We jumped right into the summer by starting it out with a trip to the Gulf Shores of Alabama! This was our second annual trip with the Mayton family........it's so nice to spend time with great friends! The beach is such a great way to renew some energy and relieve stress.....the mojitos help out too! We had an amazing time!
So, I was lucky enough to get interviewed by Tina Plottel from HelloCraft.com! The interview is up and I must say she did a fabulous job organizing my babble! Thanks Tina! If you would like to read it check it out here. Stay a while and spend some time on the website, it is super informative......
I was looking through some old slides trying to find some student work from my 3D classes that I taught during grad. school and found this video. This is a video I shot for my MFA exhibition to play during the show. This is my husbands hands playing with the objects and a great friend Steve Kostell helped me edit the video. My committee was against me forgoing any type of cover over my work while my show was up because the pieces were not secure. I played the video to give the viewer an idea of how the objects could be manipulated. The coolest part of the playing the video was the sound that the vessels made. Although showing the video on a continuous loop stopped know one from picking them up and playing with them.........I even had some tiny 1" vessels that were shaped like spinning tops. In the end, nothing was stolen and I was happy with my choice. Like my kids tell me...."Life is multiple choice"!
We love science here at the Duffy house! The kiddos were so excited about conducting some experiments in order to enter the school wide science fair this year. K grew egg geodes in order to see what would happen if we used plain tap water in one group and lake water in another group. We found that the lake water and tap water created interesting crystal growth but, the lake water seemed to create more interesting crystals. The chemicals were made into a "super saturation" and poured into clean, empty eggs about 4 weeks prior to the results were documented. If you want to know more details about the project..........send me an email and I can send you the process in length. Now, L (with my help) colored chicken scratch in order to see if chickens could see color. Most of all she wondered if they had a favorite color, a question she asks most people upon meeting. For five days we placed the colored scratch in pie tins and placed them out where we usually feed the chickens. At the end of each day we collected the tins and measured for the results. We found that chickens liked the regular scratch (variable) the most because that's what they were used to eating. Although, they ate more of the green out of all the colors, L determined that they liked green because it looked like grass! She's a smarty girl!! Best news: we are going to the county wide competition in a couple of weeks!! Yay Duffy scientists!! UPDATE: L TOOK 1ST PLACE AT THE COUNTY WIDE SCIENCE FAIR! AND K TOOK 3RD!!
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We love science here at the Duffy house! The kiddos were so excited about conducting some experiments in order to enter the school wide science fair this year. K grew egg geodes in order to see what would happen if we used plain tap water in one group and lake water in another group. We found that the lake water and tap water created interesting crystal growth but, the lake water seemed to create more interesting crystals. The chemicals were made into a "super saturation" and poured into clean, empty eggs about 4 weeks prior to the results were documented. If you want to know more details about the project..........send me an email and I can send you the process in length. Now, L (with my help) colored chicken scratch in order to see if chickens could see color. Most of all she wondered if they had a favorite color, a question she asks most people upon meeting. For five days we placed the colored scratch in pie tins and placed them out where we usually feed the chickens. At the end of each day we collected the tins and measured for the results. We found that chickens liked the regular scratch (variable) the most because that's what they were used to eating. Although, they ate more of the green out of all the colors, L determined that they liked green because it looked like grass! She's a smarty girl!! Best news: we are going to the county wide competition in a couple of weeks!! Yay Duffy scientists!! UPDATE: L TOOK 1ST PLACE AT THE COUNTY WIDE SCIENCE FAIR! AND K TOOK 3RD!! 
