Is that how that goes? I don’t know why, if it’s the flowers or the heat or the smells in the air, but I love to get out to the studio. Always, but especially in the summer. I can throw the doors open and let the kilns vent into the night. I’m riding a bike more, and walking with my boys…maybe the exercise is making me feel like creating…anyhow, it’s been prolific and engaging and wonderful so far.

My latest design has me giddy, too fusing flowers onto white…they feel so sweet to me.

We are ordering some new dichroic, too, so watch for more trees with interesting background skies.

Thanks to everyone who has come out to see us at our shows. We’ve had so much support and forged so many valuable friendships and connections, and we are eternally grateful for that! The world can get to feeling tight knit, and that is good.

It’s another U District weekend, and this year we’re changing our location to be right in the center of the show. I’m excited to go up—in a 94 degree+++ heat wave, no less! We are staying in our favorite little motel with the pastel pink and mint green appliances from a faraway decade.Hopefully little Otto will feel better about car travel by now, he’s old enough to face front if he seems carsick… We have lots of new and pretty things we’re packing up to take with us, and we’re looking forward to spending time with all our artist friends we don’t often get to spend time with here at home with our busy family and work schedules! Come see us if you’re in Seattle, and say hi!

Sometimes glass can transport us to other worlds, evoking a state of mind, or a scene yet unseen. I feel something from his color tapestry, and I want to be there.

I wanted to share it, while I commit to posting more on this site. I spend so much time working on a small scale, and while it suits me, I want to try and create larger evocative pieces as well.

This is being entered in a juried art show in Idaho. I wish it luck!

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I am finally ready to start this, a blog.

As a blog virgin with an avid yet rusty journaling history, I have plenty of ideas, but not as much time as I would like. So, in between chasing a toddler and sweeping up snacks, I feel ready(possibly pathologically, but definitely urgently ready) to go to work and play with sweeps and dots of color.

This time, I cut up several large sheets of glass, half as big as a door, so I would have some new colors to work with. I spent hours playing around with shape and color combinations that I like, and a couple new design ideas. I cut tens and hundreds of tiny concoctions, layering and carefully setting them down in my low-to-the-ground kiln. After a couple of weeks of designing and cutting, the kiln shelf was finally full of pretty rows of future pendants and earrings, so I dutifully snapped a picture..here’s a section:

started it up, and let her fire away for 24 hours. Then I took another picture:

And this is the end result…now I’m ready for more days in the studio, crafting the silver bezels, grinding edges, fire-polishing… Glass undergoes a cool transformation and I wanted to share a little visual piece of the fusing process.

I truly love what I do. I love glass, I adore silver, and I love to make pretty things! I hope to keep posting some more pictures of my jewelry works-in-progress…until then, thanks for checking in!