Ornamental Metal Museum

This weekend my parents skipped town, so Martha and I ventured to a place we had never been to see the sun set over the Mississippi and to learn more about making things from metal. Our destination was the Ornamental Metal Museum, which just happens to be run by the husband of the Spanish Teacher that has taught all three Boyd girls in high schoool.


Martha was a good sport and didn't get annoyed when I wanted to design my own aluminum tile. It was really cool to carve my own design in the form and then watch them pour the aluminum.

The aluminum was solid very quickly, but still very very hot as they broke the form off and dipped each tile into a bucket of water.
I am excited to add this tile to my cross collection that I will finally get to unpack and hang up when I move in May. The grounds of the Ornamental Metal Museum are beautiful. They would be perfect for a wedding reception.

After the sun had set and my tile had cooled enough to touch, we left for dinner at one of our favorite Mexican food places and watched West Virginia beat Kentucky to get into the Final Four. As a Memphis columnist posted on Twitter, the entire city of Memphis felt Schadenfreude: delighting at another's misfortune. Also known as doing the happy dance because Calipari's team LOST!