358/365 diamond

356/365 nickels

ring of nickels

354/365 ringtone

I made a ringtone from ring #353,
as was suggested by some of my facebook friends.

352/365 how to pronounce tomi

Here is the origin of today's video ring, you might need to click for the larger version to read it:

ETA: This video and facebook friends led to ring #354.

349/365 poem

I decided to write a poem today, and that as long it began and ended the same way it was cyclical, and therefore a ring. It's a stretch, I know, but you're all used to that by now.

No, it's not about RAD. I hope it reads like a ring.

343/365 i can't

THIS is the new low. A ring creatively made of dog poo is better than this.

339/365 marat

Yesterday I posted to Facebook that I think Ring a Day might actually kill me. John Rose of 2Roses replied,

"A truly romantic image Tomi. The emaciated and exhausted artist slumped over her bench in a cold garret, clutching the 365th ring in her dead hand. Sorta like David's Death of Marat."

338/365 skullflake

Ring a day is hard right now. Really hard. Harder than it's ever been and there's but 27 rings to go. What's up with that?

336/365 snowflake

Tomorrow I will make this in metal. I have guests coming tonight and I'm out of time.

323/365 dust, dog hair, and beagle snout

307/365 more floor

I painted another plywood insert, this one is in the living room. The design is from this beautiful ironwork in Barcelona, and I added three diamond rings. I'll apply one more coat of stain and then urethane.

305/365 painted floor

I had two floor furnaces removed three years ago and have been considering painting the plywood inserts ever since. I used some leftover supplies and an easy method recently taught to me by a friend.

I altered the design of this gate to include a ring at the top,
can you see it?

I used Adobe Illustrator to tile the 30" x 19" image on letter paper and taped it together, layed a mask of contact paper on the floor and used spray adhesive to attach the printout on top. I stained the plywood earlier today.

I started to cut the design with an exacto knife and realized
I was cutting the wrong portions out.

Cutting finished.

Sprayed with matte black spray paint.
I will add more stain and then urethane.

297/365 Justinian

written in sharpie on the underside of a sink cabinet drawer

The famous decree of Justinian, promulgated in 539 (Novella 78 of the Digest), conferring upon freedmen the right of wearing gold rings, runs as follows :

If a master, on freeing- his slave, has declared him to be a Roman citizen (and he is not allowed to do otherwise), let it be known that, according to the present law, he who shall have received his liberty shall have the right to gold rings and to regeneration, and shall not need to solicit the right of the prince, or to take any other steps to secure it. It will be his as a consequence of his liberation, in virtue of the present law, whichgoes into effect from this day.

-text from Rings For the Finger, published in 1917.

296/365 chaplet ring

written in sharpie on the underside of a sink cabinet drawer

The gold and silver chaplet rings, with a cross and ten beads or bosses in relief upon the hoop, were frequently used by the Knights of Malta, in the eighteenth century; indeed this type of ring is said to have been invented by them. Their use as substitutes for the less convenient chaplet was spreading, until in 1836 the matter was referred by Pope Gregory XVI to the tribunal of penitentiaries. Its decision, transmitted by the Cardinal Penitentiary Castracane, as to the question "whether the gold or silver rings, surrounded by ten bosses, which are used by some pious persons for the recitation of the Rosary of the Blessed Virgin, can be blessed with the appropriate indulgences," was in the negative.

-text from Rings For the Finger, published in 1917.

295/365 ball and chain

I painted a ball and chain around the window, a ring of rings.

We all have one.

Hard to see, but it's there. This ring is about the ball and chain of my own perception and how it affects my life and my choices.

293/365 grin

The letters in the word 'ring' can be rearranged to spell 'grin'. Painted on two primed walls.

290/365 cicadas

288/365 wall paint

Painted on a new wall at my house, it's terrible and it's six feet tall.

287/365 eliot

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -T. S. Eliot

Written in pencil on a soon-to-be-painted wall.

284/365 obama golfing