chick-hen

hens, glovans, countrymen, lend me your ears!  last month in may, i went up to davis for the whole earth festival.  for those of you that have been following since the beginning of lonesome glove, you will remember that this blog started in davis, california!  it was great to be back in my old college town, especially during springtime.  i had hopes that i might find a glove while up there, and thankfully, i did!  after spending three glorious days in davis at the festival, i was preparing to return to reality.  thankfully, before i left, i found TWO gloves on 3rd street near crepeville.  i clutched the dirty, leafy gloves in my left hand for quite a long time while strolling around downtown.  finally, i stopped in miskha's cafe to get a coffee and a brown paper bag to deposit the gloves in.  the gloves flew back down to los angeles with me and waited patiently for their turn to be rehabbed.  a month later, after i finished student teaching, i finally had time to address the two gloves!

they started off as two black fingerless gloves (the previous owner had cut off the fingers!  how cruel!).  i sewed the finger holes shut, stuffed the gloves, and attached them at the wrist to create a very tall chicken-y form.  one thumb and forefinger stuck out and looked a little bit like a beak, so i sewed them together into a pouty-chicken-kissy-face.  cuuuuuuuuuuute!  cluck.

flap your wings for Hen-ry!!!!

hen-ry has her very own bebby egg.

look at her luvin' it!

a fruitful trip

remember how i was hoping i would find a glove in davis?  that didn't happen.  but guess what?  i found TWO gloves within my first five minutes in berkeley.  holy ballzz!!!  jessica picked me up from the train station and i immediately had to ask her to pull over and stop so i could jump out of the car and rescue two prime specimens of glove.  they were beauts, and i stowed them safely in a plastic grocery bag at the bottom of my suitcase for the remainder of my trip.  i finally got around to fashioning them into something this weekend, and i am mighty proud of them, if i do say so myself.  emily, jessica, and caryn, this glovely goes out to you!


behold the lovely little butterfly,












Mariah Carey!

p.s. click the pictures to enlarge them.  this glove has some really nice texture!

angst

you know when you really want to do something but you can't because it would be bad for you?  that's how i was feeling on tuesday.

i taught 3 science classes that day and they were fantastic.  the students loved my oobleck (google it!!) lab and overall, i was satisfied that they understood what i was teaching and were engaged in the task.  as an added bonus, i got to go home early because i was allowed to skip this week's tuesday staff development meeting!!

on my drive home i sang along in the car to fleetwood mac, and when i reached PV drive, i spotted two beautifully preserved gloves right by the center divider.  there was no way i could stop to get them without risking bodily harm, so i just drove on.

this has happened to me several times now, and i always feel bad when i see a glove but cannot rescue it.  i only hope that i can rescue some gloves while i'm up in davis this weekend.  fingers crossed!

springtime glove

this past weekend tony and i drove up to davis for the whole earth festival. it was so fantastically fun!! friday was spent mostly at the festival on campus. so many hippies, happy people, beautiful art, ceramics, clothing, and jewelry. just before settling down for some reggae-ish music, we took a quick spin on our bikes around campus and i found a glove right by the sci lab building. after the music, we did my favorite half of the bike loop. i love mini vacations, and now i feel like i need to get back to work. unfortunately, i have no job... so getting back to work won't be happening. thankfully, my info meeting for pepperdine's masters of education is tonight so hopefully i'll be back in the swing of academics before i can blink an eye!

for this glove, i decided to form it into the vulcan salute. complete with slanty eyebrows, i think it makes a decent vulcan glove. too bad it doesn't have the rad haircut...

Vulcotron!

success!

well, i know it's been a very long time since my last glove post, so thank you for being patient with me. i made a trip up to my alma mater last week and was very fortunate to find several gloves in just a few days' time! i drove up to davis on tuesday and found my first glove the very next day. on wednesday morning, i went on the davis bike loop and had a wonderful ride. the sun was shining, the gentle wind kept me cool, and the flowers were blooming all over town. everything was perfect to begin with, but i found a glove at an elementary school making it possibly the best bike loop ever!

inspired by jessica and emily's dinosaur costumes for picnic day, i decided to make a dinosaur glove doll! his name is Mr. T Rex.