True Confessions of Hannah Faith

Tent Wrestling

Posted on May 20th, 2004 by hanfaith.
Categories: Art.

I have a proposal for a new summer olympics game - tent wrestling. I just spent approximately one hour putting together a tent outside in the wind. Now this is not your run of the mill easy pop together camping tent. I was working on a trial run of setting up the shelter tent for my mosaics at my upcoming craft fair. I failed. Ok, granted it was really windy outside, and granted I’m only one person, and granted I’m pregnant - but come on, how difficult should these things be? I finally got all the poles together, stretched the tarpy thing over it all, and even staked it into the ground - only to have it all blow over and across our field the minute I turned my back. I’m guessing that when I have to put it up for real, I’ll have to come up with something creative like sand bags or rocks to hold the legs down (the tarpy thing is just begging to be used as a kite to fly over Moosehead lake making me the laughing stock of the craft fair). I guess I can’t complain too much - it was a pretty cheap tent. Most of the shelter tents out there for craft fairs run around 150-200 dollars. I got this one on ebay for $25. What a steal! I just hope it will work out when I really need to rely on it.

And just putting it together and seeing how big it is (10×10) has really inspired me to get back to mosaicing - I’ve been slacking the last week after a massive amount of grouting. I still have grout under my fingernails. But back to the work table I go - I want my tent to look at least decently filled. I’m trying a new grout out now - cheapo Home Depot stuff, and suprisingly, I like it much better than the expensive made-for-mosaics grout. Hooray! My two newest designs have both been on 10″x4″ boards - one with a fully leefed birch tree with a blue sky background, green grass and and grey border, and the other with the word “MAINE” on it and a pine branch - in dark brown with a light brown background (the pine branch has green in it, of course). I just hope other people will like them enough to buy!

Actually, here are some pictures of my older mosaics (I can’t post the new ones because my laptop has no editing program to change the picture size so that it’s not huge!) I’ve already sold the chickadee - but it’s one of my classic favorites. The bluebird here isn’t grouted yet and doesn’t have a frame, but you get a general idea. Wish I had some pictures up of my landscapes, but alas - they’re on the other computer.

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