by IzabellePerry | Mar 25, 2016 | Welding
There are as many types of rails as there are sites, architects, engineers, designers, fabricators, builders and artists. These instructions are for metal pipe stair railings but can be transposed to other types of railings. Especially if the railings need to be...
by IzabellePerry | Mar 12, 2016 | Welding
After working twelve hours, burning broken parts off an excavator with an arc gouger, I am writing this blog from my car on my cellphone. I spent the week burning out cracks and welding them back up. International woman’s day looked like this. This blog may lack...
by IzabellePerry | Mar 5, 2016 | Gardening, Plants
The seed order has finally come in! Opening the box from West Coast Seeds is always so exciting. It’s like Christmas in spring. I fondle every packet and organize the seeds in the order they will be planted…. And then it dawns on me: this “present” from the seed...
by IzabellePerry | Feb 27, 2016 | Welding
Over the winter, the bottom step of the precarious stairs at our back door rotted away…. After being “repaired” by a couple cinder blocks, it looked like this: Seeing as stairs are one of my favourite design challenges, I took it upon myself to make some steel...
by IzabellePerry | Feb 21, 2016 | Plants, Welding
Scrap metal has always had a special place in my heart since the first time I set foot in the metalworking shop in Art School. I used to go through other artist’s junk piles and make sculptures only from scrap so I wouldn’t have to buy materials. I found the creative...
