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 [...]
Yup, tinkering with the website
So that it will soon have an online store. The blog is still here, up on the left! =) It will start to look more pretty very soon. More in the next couple days, you deserve an update! Much is going on!
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 [...]
Fugly
It happens. Sometimes it is really hard to acknowledge it. My view on my own work can be biased both ways…thinking something is way worse than it really is, or better than it really is. I wanted this winestopper to be cool. Different. Doing something different with my lampwork, something other than artisan jewelry. ut… [...]
Getting bigger.
It’s time for me to make some more of my huge beads. Last year…well, actually, more than a year ago, I went into a glass blowing studio and had the goal of making a large bead. It took most of the day to figure out how to swing it…but I did. You can see it [...]
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 [...]
’tis the season to be freezin’
It’s cold. And it is going to get colder. If I am going to throw any cover over some of my plants, it has to be tonight, pretty much. The pouring rain makes me feel snuggly and cozy while inside….but not so much in the studio. I do have a heater out there, but because [...]
Portland Open Studios – Day 1
I thought I would post a picture of the beads I made on Saturday, so that anyone visiting the blog who was there and saw them being made can see the final result. Often beads look very different coming out of the kiln 9+ hours later…colors change, intensify, shift…all sorts of heat and glass magic. [...]
