The Fencer's Clock

A STRANGE KNIGHT rides his rocking horse steed over uncharted territories, only to find that after travelling for miles and battling many Terrors, he is in fact in the very same place where he started. (Such is the dilemma with rocking horse steeds, as you might imagine) ... Nevertheless he holds his sword forth and his shield out, as if protecting himself from the turnings of time.

Here is the third Once Upon O'Clock ... a Russian Icon inspired sword clock for Yoli. This one is made with a different piece of tree from the last two. The wood is cut from a section where the trunk was beginning to divide into two... and you can see the rough split running down the front leg of the horse. And from the side of the slice of wood, I found a tiny spike growing, the beginnings of a branch I think ... and a perfect point for the sword. The bark is rather higgledy piggledy on this one, and still has moss growing in parts...





I am parceling this up today to send off into the wilds of Royal Mail ... it is so exciting that my clocks will be hanging on walls all over the world. I never expected that this venture would be so popular... had I known I would have got on with it all those years ago when I thought of it!!
I think though, that I have this odd blog-world to thank for being able to connect with like-mined and interesting souls all over the planet. Hermits are unlikely to meet them too often otherwise :)



And speaking of blogs... my mum has written her second blog post! (only three months after the first one! ;) with some musings on artistic genes and example of my New Zealand Grandmother's paintings.

Happy days... I'm off to the wagon workshop with some coffee and nibbles to invigorate Tui's woodworking hands ... and maybe I'll lend a hand of my own, while the Fencer's clock hands tick away for the last time until they reach the shores of America ...