koru #169

Rolled-up grocery list. Yep, it's a stretch, but it still counts.

koru #157

Homemade hummus with carrots.

koru #152

Food Should Taste Good Sweet Potato All Natural Chips... yum!

koru #141

White cable on multi-colored rug.

koru #139

Despite migraine, the koru must go on... and the dishes.

Seventh Generation free and clear natural dish liquid on mesh Good Cook strainer with sink shadow.

koru #136

Vintage medical alert bracelet.

koru #134

Rock on rock.

koru #133

Curled dried Dracaena marginata frond.

koru #132

Koru carved in dirt with pointed stick.

koru #131

Was having some technical difficulties posting last night so here is yesterday's koru a little late. ChlorOxygen spiral at the bottom of a hand-blown glass.

koru #128

Took these late last night and was too tired to post, but here they are.

Blue Moon Beads Natural Elegance glass seed bead strands in jet and lime.

koru #127

Water in the Desert: Maceration (PDF) water on dry desert earth with cacti and bone bucket.

koru #125

Sewing tape measure on tile floor.

koru #121

Toothpaste tube koru in medicine cabinet. 6.5 oz. tube of Sensodyne Extra Whitening.

I know I promised something surprising but alas, I ran in to some challenges preparing my "canvas." Soon, though. Soon...

koru #115a/b

So, I'm supposed to be on internet hiatus through Sunday, but I figure if I've got the koru, I may as well post the koru (or two -- one made, one found -- as the case may be).

Random seed pods found in park.

Just in case you were wondering what that koru was...

koru #112

When I originally started this project, my goal was to actually make something koru-themed every day. Unfortunately with work and moving two states away, that making turned into documenting. Sure, it's still been a lot of fun and I've founds some wonderful stuff, but now that I'm settled in my new place, it's time to get back to the original plan -- at least as often as I can. (Don't worry, I'll still post all the cool korus I find as well as the guest korus people send me.)

So, for today's koru I went back to Noah Scalin's book 365: A Daily Creative Journal and started with the first prompt: "make something small that fits in the palm of your hand using only the materials in your immediate environment." In this case, a paperclip (though I did have to go into the other room to hunt down a pair of pliers when my fingers turned out not to be up to the job).

Wish paperclips were made out of  surgical steel -- this would make an awesome earring.

koru #109

Coiled Palm Centro headset.

koru #98

Granny Smith apple peel on purple Fiesta-ware dinner plate, Santa Fe, NM.

koru #82

Hand-twisted scrap-paper koru.


Yes, it does look a little like a bird.

koru #78

Turquoise plaid belt/tie for OP tunic, coiled. Purchased at Walmart, Bentonville, AR.