Summer! The height of summer! Here in Oregon, we have skirted the heat that is oppressing so many other areas in the United States. I am grateful to not be blanketed with relentless heat every day…but the cool isn’t doing my tomatoes any good. The blueberries have come out, and are fat globes of juicy [...]
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Shelling out
Summer, you go by so fast. As usual, I have had problems getting into the studio for myself. And I want new work! Summer is such a creative time for me…in my head, anyway. I have been making lots of shell focal beads…and I need to get them to the coast to approach a few [...]
Neptune’s Lantern
I have been really going out of my own boundaries with my glass, lately, and it is hard. Things don’t look so good. And I am eager for new ideas to look good. When someone posts something new in an online gallery, etc., it gives the illusion that BAM, they just came out of nowhere [...]
Encompassed
I have wanted to try making a bezel for awhile. I often find new projects hard just simply because it is so much STUFF to track down. I had to get the bezel wire, and the first one I bought wasn’t the right size, too narrow, so I had to send that back (and of [...]
Work…flow
I made a new pendant a few days ago, using dichroic glass. I so rarely do. I just am not a dichroic glas user and then I see it in other work by other people and I love it. I have been trying to master getting … I don’t know what to call them, grooves [...]
Salmon Eggs
This summer I went to the zoo a lot with my little boy, Derek. He loved walking down through the Pacific Northwest section, where a large tiled piece of art was inset in the path. The piece showed the life cycle of salmon, and this focal bead was inspired by that process. Simple entry, I [...]
Knitting with Vikings
I am actually learning how to knit, with yarn. But that is not the knitting I am talking about. I have learned to do a method of creating chain called viking knit, which is hundreds of years old, back to 700 AD. It is an offshoot of chainmaille work, but it is wire that is [...]
