More O'Kringles!

Hi, everyone, I hope you all have had a wonderful weekend!

 I can't believe how much cooler it's been here the past couple of days...

50s at night ~ can you believe it?

 A week ago we were having 100+ temps!

Just all of a sudden...right about the time you can't remember what nice weather was like...amazing! Almost fall-like...it won't last, though, we'll have more hot weather...

but it's really been a welcome respite... :)

We still need rain, and we're supposed to have some later tonight/early morning...I sure hope so!

I've been working on more O'Kringles today...I'm not sure how many I'll make this year; I'm not getting the really big okra pods like I did last summer...(we've been watering, but it just doesn't make up for the serious lack of rain)...and, I've been hearing the Creative Muse (so glad she's back!) whisper some other things in my ear...variety is the spice of life, after all!



Here's a link for my tutorial post from last December...



http://alittlefurinthepaint.blogspot.com/2011/12/okra-santa-tutorial.html

 So, these fellows will most likely be very limited...

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This is "Curly"...:) (above)

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Here's a new one...look at his wreath!

It's an okra pod, too, that grew in a perfect little circle!

I don't usually have hands on the O'Kringles (just the okra pod making the long beard),

but I couldn't just hang a wreath on his beard, so he got hands.

 Well, mittens, anyway.

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He hasn't been baked yet; he will get eyes soon!

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Here's another fellow that I've just begun...

No mustache yet...

I kept thinking he looked familiar, and I think I know who he looks like, now...

I'm watching "M*A*S*H"...

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He looks like Colonel Potter. :) ~ I think it's the nostrils.

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Here's my next project...

This tool box was something my Daddy had...not sure if it originally belonged to my Grandpa or my Great Uncle Walt, Grandpa's brother.

The carved piece, though, is from a chair of Uncle Walt's...sadly, the chair was just beyond repair (it looked like it had fallen off a truck, smack-dab onto the pavement...but it hadn't; it was just worn completely out)...an upholstered piece from c.1918, it didn't have springs (purchased during WWI, evidently the war effort didn't allow for such frivolous use of metal), and it was just held together all over with baling wire...

I kept thinking that someday "we" would fix it.

No.

I made the decision to keep the rungs and the arms (such as they are), and to use them on other projects.

I think this piece will make a great applique on the tool box, don't you?

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I have my Annie Sloan Pure White paint that I have not opened yet...

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I can already see it with mums this fall, or ivy, later on, on my buffet. :)



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So, that has been my Sunday, playing and piddling!

Have a great Monday!



♥

Anne



Linking to Cathy's 1929 Charmer ~ Sunday's Best!