My husband was working on something last evening and needed a few nails which he knew I was likely to have. It took a bit of searching in the studio before we managed to locate them though. While moving everything about and looking in every container, I happened to open an old tool box and discovered a mother load of rusty bits that had been long forgotten.
All were collected during the building of our last house in Virginia...oh...nearly 10 years ago. The carpenters thought me quite mad when I asked if it was okay to pick them up. After all, who'd want rusted washers, nails and pipes?
Oh, I can SOOO relate! When I drive around in the hills here, I often see a downed white birch tree or branch and want to stop and pick it up. I think, I wonder if the owner of the property wants it and so maybe I should leave it... then I laugh at myself realizing that the only thing they might want it for is the fireplace and they would probably thank me for stopping and cleaning up their deadfall!
ReplyDeleteSo funny! We've a nice piece of birch that was downed last October when we got 15" of snow. I lusted after it from my kitchen window and planned to get it once the snow melted enough that I could get to it. Funny thing...from the kitchen window it looked like a smallish branch. Up close, it was the top of a tree! It's still there...under the summer's growth of weeds. Don't what I'll do with it, but once the weeds are gone, I'm getting my husband to drag it around.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking an arbor for the garden might be nice...
Amazing how all of those rusty bits start to look like candy to the rust lover's eye !
ReplyDeleteLove those disks !!!
Welcome Kim! Love your comment...which my mind read as
Deleterust = eye candy
Not the normal version of eye candy, but for those of who love rust...
Enjoy!
What a treasure trove to happen upon. Now the question becomes do you save the haul...or use them in art?
ReplyDeleteHi Seth. I'm honored to have you visit my blog! Unearthing the rusty bits was like finding buried treasure. The spoils will be used to rust cotton and paper...probably paper first as I've plenty of cotton from my winter rusty frenzy and am having fun working with paper at the moment. Come back and visit anytime. Enjoy! Jennifer
Deleteahhhh - what a great find. Lovely shapes to made lovely new marks X
ReplyDeleteIt is great find - one that I can't believe I'd forgotten about. All winter these little beauties sat mere inches from the work table and the rusting frenzy that was taking place there. It's their turn now...
DeleteHi J - I've been here a few time before commenting, eyes going up and down and in and out - choosing my favourite bits. I love those discs, but also those nails, and as you know was also inspired to blog on my rust stash as a result! It must have felt a bit like Christmas to open that toolbox and find all these presents! Suddenly new worlds and opportunities appear and you start wondering what? how? when? Enjoy the play.
ReplyDeleteHi Fiona! It did feel a bit like Christmas opening that tool box. Even John commented on what a nice find it was. It's so funny that Susan's post prompted my post which prompted yours...who's next? Barry? Can't you just imagine one day with everyone posting photos of their rusty stashes? What fun that would be!
DeleteJ- and I used to think I was the rusted one in the family - funny how so much of our rust bank is migrating to the shed studio. We registered a Tumblr called rustlust - I think it is about time that collectively we begin to post our best rust shots to there - create a site to swoon over. I will need to talk to Fiona about how to turn it into a group thing. Go well and keep on rustlusting. B
ReplyDeleteOoooh! I'm swooning already imagining the rusty photos that will grace the site. Is it possible to have multiple authors on Tumblr? If not, we could make a great rustlust blog on Blogger instead. Think I'll check that one out just to cover our bases.
DeleteAwesome idea you had! Can't wait to start posting. J
My rust garden gets more attention than my herb garden these days. Rustlust. I like that.
ReplyDeleteFunny. I'm actually planning to plant an herb garden this fall and plan to set my larger rusted gears in the garden to let Mother Nature work her magic with them. And, hopefully, to scare away little critters so the herbs aren't eaten.
DeleteCare to share a photo of your rust?
oh boy, looks like you are going to have fun with these bits .......
ReplyDeleteWill be fun if we are all able to post to 'rust lust'. There certainly are enough of us our there who love rust.
"Rust lust" will be awesome...especially if we can all post to it. Glad you like my rusty bits.
DeleteJ- re the rust lust Tumblr - I have talked to the household tech-guru who replied "Oh man" = but I think that is code for "ok better look into that now" - so we are on to it - would be great if we can group post on Tumblr - but as you say if not then create a blog. Options everywhere. B
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the household tech guru was able to figure out how to have multiple authors on Tumblr. This is going to be fun!
Deleteyummy! great finds, I may have to start searching my studio and garage now...
ReplyDeleteSearch the studio and garage, look on the ground when going to the grocery... Rust is everywhere - even hiding in my studio right where I put it nearly 7 years ago.
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