New Work

I've posted this on FaceBook too. It's part of what I am calling my my "Twilight" series. 

It had really grown, It began around Easter time, one flower, two leaves and a bud. 

By July it had grown a second large flower and two more leaves. This October, it has finished blooming. 

Sometimes it's hard to know when to stop - keep going for that matter!

And here are the matching earrings.








The pieces are made from a silver reactive glass. The flowers look blue in the picture below but they do have a metallic shine to them - depending on how the light hits them.

This glass is a challenge at least for me. To obtain the metallic sheen requires heating and reheating the glass as well as changing the flame chemistry (I guess that year of chemistry did have a purpose) from neutral to reducing.

I am also convinced, it involves the position of the planets, phases of the moon and current atmospheric conditions...

Wow!

I am posting twice in one month! Maybe there is some hope for me! 

First, I want to say thank you to everyone who came by our booth and shopped with us or just came and said "hi". 

Second, I want to post about my next show - it's done by Glass Act, our lampworking (flame working) guild.  We've been doing this show for at least 8 years and probably 7 at the Bloomfield HIlls location.

We will have over 20 glass artists this year. And everything from beads to finished jewelry, holiday ornaments to glass sculpture. Be sure to mark your calendar for this show.

For more info, follow the link -Winter Wonders Holiday Glass Show & Sale

October!

OK - there might be some hope for me and my blog! 

Tonight I will be doing a demo and presentation at the "Downriver Arts & Crafts Guild" at the Southgate Library. I'm bringing my trusty old Hot Head and fire extinguisher and hope we all have a good time and I don't bore people to death.

Thursday, October 10th is the opening for "Our Town" at the Community House in Birmingham. This year the show is one day shorter - meaning it ends on Saturday the 12th! For more info, check out their website - 
Our Town Art Show & Sale.



And of course I will be doing Bead Bonanza with my foxie friends - Fire Foxes Glass. Here's the info on the show -Bead Bonanza.  This show along with it's spring counterparts are the largest bead shows in Michigan and are up on by the Great Lakes Beadworks Guild.

Have not taken any pics recently but will later this week but here's a peek at one of my pieces that will be in the "Our Town" show.


The above piece is called "Bridal Tears". 


The one to the right is called "My Garden". I love them all but these are two of my favorites - until the next piece!

Stony Creek Beads

Boy am I lame -

I will be part of the Glass Act bead trunk show at Stony Creek beads in Ypsilanti tomorrow, Saturday September 14 from 10 - 4.

I'll be there in the morning bright and shine, or something like that!  Check it out -
/www.stonycreekbead.blogspot.com/


Here are a few more Luv Birds. For some reason I felt the urge to name them...

For some reason, this is Benny Jett, as in "Benny and the Jetts".  Maybe he's channeling Elton John...

And this is "Henny Penny".  Maybe I just need to get out more...

Wow it's been too long!

Life does get away from us, since I last posted have been to Mexico and China. Figure at least 19,000 air miles! 

Don't need to see another airline - with or without propellers (yes they do exist still) - any time soon.

My last post was of my "Luv Birds" which I really enjoyed playing with. I must admit doing the feather thing is not easy, getting them glued in and making the wire bail can be rather challenging.  


But I recently took a class with Kim Fields on birds and flowers - wow! It was great! Now I have to find my own voice in what I learned from my teacher Kim...















I like these but I still like my "Luv Birds".

Kind of ironic, have been making birds, I go to China and avoid the bird markets because of the flu.

But I did get to see a few in the Muslim market in Xi'an - a beautiful city, small by China standards, only about 8,000,000 people.

In China, people take there birds outside to the park, and of course you can buy birds at markets. 

It may be hard to see them in their cages on the light post in the picture on the right.

When our group came down the street the vendors took them down and into their shops...

Happy Belated New Year

The New Year has begun and for us, it has been a very busy time. I wasn't able to get to my torch until last week for a few hours. Am trying to find my voice in glass again, we're getting there.

I played around with some funky bird shapes and have found something that is new for me as a bead. I am calling them my "Love Birds" - got to work on that one. But am sharing a couple of pics for now.


These two have been made into finished pendants.

I added feathers and glitz to them.  I really enjoyed making them and these two are currently available that the Lawrence Street Gallery.

I will have them available for sale at Bead Bonanza in March, with and without glitz.

More to come!

Winter Wonders is coming, Nov 2nd.

Will keep this short, much work to do! Am preparing for Glass Act's annual holiday show, Winter Wonders.  

It's next Saturday, November 3rd at the Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomflield Hills. It runs from 10 - and there is an admission of $3.  But refreshments and parking are free and it really is a great show.  

It's a fun time with lots of great glass work and good energy.

There will be holiday themed pieces as well as my "more regular" work. And I will have some glass ornaments as well.

Am going to try to take some pics of my new stuff today but to be honest, I would rather be making stuff!

And there might be another show I am doing that will run November thru December - details to come.