South Ponto Beach, Carlsbad

Just a quick pebbling today...

DID YOU FIND IT??

Sign the guestbook and let us know!





Placed near the cliff, on another rock, ever so happily...






...Like so....





Have a beautiful day!

#021 in Portrait and Blogged Again.

It's a little over a week after vacation, and I've managed to get the kids back to school and have nailed down some semblance of normalcy.  Which is good.  After a long and tiring summer of swim lessons, multiple trips across the continent to see Grandma/Grandpa/Grannie, daily kid wrangling and fight monitoring, I am (very nearly) sane again.  Or at least as close as I can be to sane (obviously).

Which means I can get back to Pebbles and making music.  Which is what keeps me sane in the first place.

And, I've been thinking, "Gee!  I really need to post something lovely on the blog..." but haven't done much in the way of Pebbles since I came home, blah blah blah, when BOOM! the lovely Alicia over at Posie Gets Cozy posts another set of lovely photographs.  One of which features one of my Pebbles. 

Miss Alicia takes the most gorgeous still-life pictures of her world and home. If you haven't visited, I suggest you do, and hurry. Because your eyes will thank you.

Alicia had ordered one of the original "Japan" Tsunami Relief Pebbles that I offered last year, and it has found it's way into her pictures ever since.  Every time I see that little Pebble in one of her achingly beautiful photos my heart does a little happy dance.  People have occasionally commented--- "What IS that?", etc, and she very recently linked to this blog and my etsy shop so that people could see where they came from.

And just like that.... my etsy shop, which hadn't made a sale in over a month, had a bunch of new orders. 

And so, today, I welcome some new friends and want publicly thank Alicia for helping new faces to find me.  She's a good soul, she is.  Once upon a time, hobos had a set of symbols/code they would chalk or paint on a fence or building to note what sort of help another might find (or not).  When I think of Alicia, "Kindhearted Woman" comes to mind.  Because I'm pretty sure she is.  And if this were pre-1940's America, there would be a sweet 'lil kitty drawn in chalk on her back door.  Go see her. 

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The other thing that made me smile from ear to ear was the picture you see today. 

Look familiar? 

It's Pebble Number 021 from my last post -- made in for the Do Art Daily Show in February, and left very recently on the the beach in the Sunset Beach neighborhood of Treasure Island, Florida.  Sterling picked it up and signed the guestbook before I even got the photos posted. 

Yesterday, I received an unexpected email from Sterling with the above Pebble Portrait attached. 

REALLY?  How awesome is THAT???  I never imagined one of them would sit for a portrait....

Hi,

It's us again (the people who found no. 21). We love love love your pebble and everyone who comes to visit is intrigued and 'curious' about it. So we just wanted to send you a little thank you... a pebble portrait.

(You are free to put the picture on your blog or wherever if you so desire.)

THANKS A MILLION (again)!

-Sterling

There is so much good in the world.  Keep your eyes open.

Sunset Beach, Florida Part III

WOW!  I usually get to photo-blog a pebbling before a finder signs it into the guestbook, but today, my last day on the beach, with a low tide and gentle gulf... I was in the water nearly all day, looking for the Elusive Banded Tulip Shell (everyone in my family has found one but ME, and it's my absolute favorite.  I still didn't find one).

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The finder writes:

"My parents and I were walking along the beach (Sunset Beach) at sunset and we found number 21 while searching for scallops. What a beautiful surprise. We've had three auspicious events today ( a wedding, a grouping of live conchs, and the best - your pebble!). We might keep it, or who knows, we might deposit it somewhere on our next vacation to New Zealand. Thank you so much, it made our day."

And, YOU, my friend, have made MY day by signing it into the Guestbook!

The bottom photo is a picture of those crazy Florida Fighting Conchs the finder mentioned... There has been a strange outcropping of them on a very particular section of beach all week. They are wallowing in a slightly muddy area, whenever the tide is low.  They flip around on the beach, burying themselves, spiral-first, into the sand.  Quite a show.

Although this photo does them no justice, the shells of these conchs are LOVELY.  But the animal is absolutely bizarre looking, and they have this weird appendage/arm/operculum that they wave about in the air/try to flick you with if you pick them up. They have strangely beautiful eyes on two stalks (like a snail), and it's started me to wondering just how the world looks peering out through two, independently moving eyes....

ENJOY YOUR PEBBLE! 

Sunset Beach, Florida Part II

Another Pebbling in the Sunset Beach neighborhood of Treasure Island, Florida-- just south of Caddy's on the Beach.

Did YOU find it?

Sign the guestbook and let us know!

This pebble is also from the Open Arts Collective's "Do Art Daily Show".  It's labeled "09" (which indicates that it was made on February 9, 2012).

Placed in a strand of shells, next to a sea gull feather...

...with a lovely ocean view.

Have a beautiful day!

Sunset Beach, Florida

The first of three "Pebblings" in Florida... One of my crochet stones from the "Do Art Daily" Show I participated in in February.

Did YOU find it???

Please SIGN THE GUESTBOOK to let us know!

(Guestbook link to the right... Very hard to imbed links on my iPhone!)

I love to hear about who finds my crocheted stones... And I leave them wherever I go.  I have heard from people as far away as Italy and Ireland-- and it's amazing!

This one was left in Sunset Beach, near Treasure Island, Florida.

Hope you found it!

It's a beautiful day for Found Art!

Ocean Beach, Ca

Went pebbling today.... Did YOU find one?

Sign the Guestbook, and let us know!







A red rock with a star....







A blue stone with a flower pattern...









...and a grey stone with a spiderweb pattern.

Other things to see in Ocean Beach today:

I Just Discovered This....

A few months ago, Blogger and Facebook stopped talking to each other. It used to be that you could set up a link from your blog posts to your page, in the form of a note.  Not the best way of communicating, but at least cross-posting was somewhat available.

I had a little following there on the Facebook, and kept up with it as long as my posts were being fed to the fb page. 

But I never saw THIS! 

In fact, I found this just a moment ago - a post written after my Laguna Beach pebbling in January. 

I feel so badly that I didn't get back with the poster in a timely manner - my apologies, Sue!

I hope you DO find another - and when you do, put it in your pocket!  :)

But what a nice picture and an interesting thing....

I didn't leave it inside the shell.  I left it on the rocks, like SO:

Huh.  Look at that shell right next to it.  Curiouser and Curiouser....

It REALLY makes me wonder about all the things that happen to these pebbles after I leave the beach!

Do Art Daily Show Part II

Yesterday I posted a few bad iphone pics in between the setting up for the opening and the actual show - I promised better pictures.  Here they are:

My Pedestal.  Had originally planned to scatter the

pebbles around the venue, as I normally do

on the beach, but thought better of it when I arrived.

A detail of my favorite pebble in the collection - my first attempt
at a free-form tree.  Not half bad, if I do say so myself (and shouldn't). Several
show attendees mentioned it as their favorite as well, so the feeling must be mutual.

Detail of the arrangement with a cairn in the back.

While many of these will be placed on a local beach as part of the
project, and some will be for sale on etsy, the pink embroidered "Namaste"
pebble will stay with me to help me remember Radhika.

"Lost & Found" a found beach object assembly by Roxy Heinz.
My favorite piece in the show hands down.

Detail of "Lost & Found" by Roxy Heinz

"Don't Look Back-Transition" by India Davis.

"sometimes it's all too much" by Dave Fass
(Please don't miss the giraffe on the side...)

Dave's placard noted that this was what runs through his brain
on a daily basis.  Me, too, Dave.  Me, too.

Well.. maybe I don't always see giant squids when I close my eyes, but close, enough.

"One Month Ride" by Sykkel Spruce.  Spray Paint and Bike Parts
on Canvas.  Bad photo.  Amazing Artwork.

"MK-NISHI Adaptive Interference Modulator Civilian Model f29"
by Edgar Milik.  The soundtrack to the show - Edgar created a loop
per day for the month of February, and compiled it all into an
interactive musical playground.  It doesn't look half as interesting as
it actually was.  We were all playing with it.

 

"Entombment" by Angela Van Lier.  Angela says, "I began this
project with an interest in symbiotic relationships.  For 29 days,
I would take a walk and not return until I found a honey bee
amongst my travels.  The found bee would be recorded and then
 encased in its own proper tomb of beeswax.  This piece deals
 with the concept of Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomenon
where it is unknown exactly why many beehives around the
world are disappearing at an alarming rate.  Scientists have
many possible theories but if we aren't able to figure out the
 exact reason soon, our food supply is in direct effect."

Detail of "Entombment".  Simply stunning.

"Containers" by Blind Art Gallery







"Containers" detail. Yes, "Blind Art Gallery" means exactly what you
 think it does.  As a potter, myself, I am left speechless.

My new acquaintances, Sergio and Ant Dakini of AntiQuark
performing live in front of their videos.  Seriously great stuff. 
Sorry about the Flash going off during this photo, Sergio.  I didn't mean to.  

Yeah, this is dark, but I love how the videos add color.

 

There were lots of cool young people in cool clothes with cool hair and a dude that looked sorta like Mel Gibson, but I didn't hold that against him.  Space 4 Art is a totally cool space.  If I lived any closer, I'd consider having a studio there.

There was also a little bit of this happening. 
But, truth be told, I was doing the exact same thing,
seeing how I didn't know a single soul at the show. 

I've posted links to the individual artists of whom I knew have a working website.  If I have missed anyone, please let me know and I will do my best to fix that.