The amount of different work I have this week is staggering. To me, anyway. Drop off for the duo-show at Art on Broadway is a week from today. I also need to make sure I have inventory for the Celebration of Creativity in March, which isn’t that far away. Some inventory will come from Art [...]
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Solved?
I’ve had an issue for years with one certain kind of bead. Transparent glass in a mold. I get strange, football-shaped bubbles right against the mandrel. I’ve spent years trying to figure it out, I have a thread on one of the lampwork communities that I started in 2006 about this issue. I had a [...]
Dark Days Make for a Brighter Flame.
I am looking out the window and it is raining. A lot. And windy. The leaves fall sideways like smears of red, orange, and yellow paint. I get the yard waste bin full and by the next day it doesn’t look like I have raked at all. I did miss fall while living in California…but [...]
Achoo!
I wish I had some new photos to share today, but I don’t. I am in bed, trying desperately to be well. Last Sunday (not yesterday, a week ago,) I started feeling not so healthy, and I still am not really sure I am climbing back out of it. Coughing, goo, huge sinus pressure…I am [...]
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 [...]
Strawberries and hulling them with Glass.
It’s here! Summer! Even our backyard garden agrees. Despite the cold spring, we finally have red, juicy strawberries in the backyard. And while we were gone to the coast over the 4th of July weekend, raspberries appeared on our vines, as well! Hard to believe it is already July. Even though my garden DOES [...]
Hot shop!
Next Tuesday I will be out at the coast, and spending the day at a friend’s hot shop. I meant to do this sooner, it has been almost 2 years since the last time, which is not what I had hoped. It is a pricey endeavor for me, but at the same time, I [...]
A quote about pricing…
Pricing is one of the hardest things for an artist to do. And I am certainly not going to write a post about it right now, but I came across this quote in a book I am reading called “Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture.” It is in a chapter called “Death of a [...]
further wine stopper thoughts
Thanks, all of you, who sent me your opinions on the wine stopper in the previous post. I got responses in email, twitter…and I DID turn on comments in this blog. I go back and forth on that. Some of you may not know that in another slice of my life, I am the website [...]
