As artists use unique items to embellish collages and fabric art, we become aware that more and more items we would have thrown away are suitable. 
This also falls into today’s recycling world of using older items to make new.  (Something the pioneers and those who lived through the Great Depression did as a matter of course.)
Clock and watch parts make likely items for unique art.  Save your old, unworkable ones.  Look for them at yard sales and auctions.  If that’s not enough, you even can find them at some collage and scrapbooking supply stores.
Among the watch findings are: screws, spokes, …read more

Oh, these amazing clocks! I love them love them love them! Gonzalo Alvarez works in quite a number of different media, but I think I love his clocks the most of all.  Very very steampunk: all those visible gears just make my knees weak!

Image: Gonzalo Alvarez

Tonight we turn our clocks ahead…and get up an hour earlier in the morning.  I enjoy the longer evenings of daylight and somehow find I get so much more done. 
However, until the year approaches its longest day, in June, our mornings remain darker.  If we’re earlier risers, we’ll find it dark or dawn.  But…we may have the glorious adventure of watching the sunrise rather than having it fully daylight when we get up.
Sometimes the changes in time will affect Alzheimer’s patients and confuse them if they have a body pattern.  In others, who simply have a nap and awake mode, they’ll …read more