It’s funny how quickly our habits change. I’ve gotten used to my morning routine being:
1) get up and make a cup of tea, quick e-mail check
2) drink tea and take meds
3) go to the basement studio and check on the resin cures from the night before, unmolding anything that’s ready, then pour next layer / start new pieces
4) check on the garden, do a bit of weeding / watering
5) go on with the day! (usually around 8-ish)
It’d be nice if I could insert exercise back in there as a habitual thing — I really dropped it the last few months, need to get it back.
Use it or lose it — more and more true as I get older, and if I want to keep my physical functionality, got to keep movement integrated into my day. I really like being able to easily drop to the floor to do gardening or resin work down there, and easily get up again — too many of my 50-something compatriots already find that very difficult. 🙁
Gardening gets me some of it, but I really need at least 20-30 minutes of cardio too — maybe I’ll try to stick it in between 3 and 4, since the treadmill is down in the basement.
Anyway, I got sidetracked, as the main point of this post wasn’t supposed to be about exercise, but about how it’s making me itch a little that I can’t do a little resin work. This is what I left going on the table:
a) fruit and flower tray curing its third layer — I think it needs one more thin layer to finish
b) pansy and fern coffee table (the brown ferns are only brown on the bottom; their tops are also green); curing its second layer — I think the next layer will be a thin silver mica pour, opaque, so all of that will disappear from view, so that when I add the legs with the final layer (the resin locking the legs in, so I don’t need to screw them in), the brackets aren’t visible from the top. I might actually keep this one for myself — my own coffee table on the porch is wicker that’s starting to disintegrate. We’ll see! It’s an experiment.
c) the peony bookends, I somehow managed to pour one at least half an inch deeper than the other. I think I’m just going to pour two more, trying to more carefully match one to each of the ones I did.
d) the peony arch came out pretty well, but needs one more thin top coat, because I spread the last one just a little too thin, and there are a few bare spots. An attempt at frugality that ended up costing me a little more resin and time — oh well, I learn!
e) and my friend Ann’s wedding flowers are finally dry, so I took some and did a layout — she’s thinking she wants an arch piece for a bookshelf, though there are actually enough flowers in the bouquet that I could ALSO do her bookends, and a breakfast tray, and perhaps even a table. She doesn’t actually want all those, I think! So I guess I’ll just ask her what she wants done with the extra flowers. (Ann, if you want little gifts for any relatives or friends, I could do small paperweights, for example.)
Want to work on these!
Oh well — they will wait a week. It will be fine. 🙂
EDIT: Round citrus tray is SOLD.
