Mobil Blog

Whoa... on on the go with my smartphone and life is good for a geek. Geek artist that is!

Finished the displays and heading to the studio to pick up more pieces and maybe clean it up a little bit. It's been pretty hectic there and  way fun.

Not Just Glass

Glass is not the only thing to make stuff out of.

It's been a long time since I've been here ::::looking around:::: and it feels familiar and strange at the same time.

There's this craft's fair at the tiny local cinema down the street and I signed up. Hurridly Scurridly I've been making displays and buying little lights and making jewelry and trying to tell people about it. I have this fantasy that maybe there will be one or two of us and maybe 3 or 4 browsers. Doesn't matter. This is one of the first dry runs for beginning more fairs and creating blissfull, artfull, beautyfull, retirement time.

I don't do only glass.

There can be pieces of dishes.

There can be pieces of soapstone candle holders.

And today a meeting with a bunch of people from an Etsy Team with an Etsy Administrator!!! Very cool. Felt like I was on the ground floor of creating changes to make Etsy work better and become more mine.

Windows

These are the windows on the building across from my studio. Only at certain times of the day can these reflections be seen. So many things like that. My glass, love, who we really are, making sense of "it". The light has to be just right. It's not that we don't see stuff without the right light, it's just that, it's not as clear or as beautifully alive.

Ouch

So the fall was not so eensy beensy. As the day went on my shoulder got more and more painful and by bedtime, excruciating. So I went to see my doc. She got it x-rayed and we'll see. Ouch.

Still started the firing of the pressed glass to fire polish. Should have taken pictures. Next time. This is gonna be cool.

90° ???!!!! Ridiculous. This is Seattle!

Last week I took a picture of the Prince surveying his domain. And I share

Eye Candy

Google's been buggy and just figured out how to create a new page in the blog. Now I'm too involved in other stuff to write much.

And I fell. :::kinda pouty face::: I have a skinned elbow and knee. The cool thing is I feel like I'm about 7!!

Eye Candy

will be online soon

Inlakesh - Talisman of the Awareness of Connection

Inlakesh. It's an Australian peoples word meaning "I am you yourself." It's not even posted yet. Soon.

Beth is meditating, Felix is at summer camp for a couple of days and I... am on vacation. Haven't invited the sweet heart who would spontaneously house sit to come be with the kitties and chickens, but that could happen.

I think about driving over to the ocean or up into the mountains but I just can't pry myself away from the surprises that keep erupting from within the walls of the studio. It's a constant explosion of newness, wonderment, problem solving and sheer joy.

So grateful. So blessed. And I've heard that if someone follows me on my new twitter account my life will be absolutely complete.

We'll see.

Now I've Done It....

....Twitter. Jeesh. I think it was one of those things I said "never" to and now look. I have a twitter account and an app on my etsy site that AUTOMATICALLY twits (I'm sure that's incorrect and will get someone out there twitterpated) every 3 hours from my etsy items. I'm flabbergasted at I my ongoing geekness and willingness to delve into social media for my art. But there you have it.

I'm in love with my work and all the new things I'm learning. In November I'm taking a Faux Bone workshop. :::smiling::: Sweet!!

Here's a new piece. I call it Sacred Offering. A kind of 2 dimensional chalice, vessel.

Moon Over Morroco

Jack Flanders. A character in a few of the radio theater shows put out by ZBS Productions. Wonderful³. And one day in Jack's adventures he finds himself standing at a gate. He can barely read what's written on it, but finally makes it out. "Standing in the Shadow of One's Own Light".

Studio today and I'm running between a sense of lost and a feeling of not being able to get out of my way. I think it's doubt. ok. I know it's doubt.

And then trickle trickle trickle something appears in my creative vision and the breathing changes right along with the change in time. It returns to puddle. It makes no difference. It, of course, does not exist and my senses are just fine with it. And whether I am the dream or I am the awake is a question that has no place here but to make me smile.

And then the clock strikes time to go to a work training and I put aside the satori of the moment and pack up. Damn I can't wait to come back tomorrow and be just as lost, or in doubt, or enlightened.

Om Amulet

Idyllic Days of Discovery

I've been sampling and creating and sitting against a tree by the canal.... listening, watching, being. But there are a couple of other things that are so glorious. One is my beautiful partner who is busy in her own worlds and passions and who so thoroughly enjoys me being able to be busy in mine. And then of course there is our son, Felix.

Now there is a joyousness to behold.

And art. Damn, I love that opening.

This one about Focus and Direction. Directions. East, West, North, South, Above, Below, Within.

And one more, just because I'm so inspired to share today. This one I call Organism.

Millions of monarch butterflies travel to ancestral winter roosts in Mexico's shrinking mountain fir forests. Surfing winds from southern Canada and the northern U.S., they travel thousands of miles, taking directional cues from the sun.

And so it begins.... again

I have a new studio!!! At first it was all neat and tidy but that's all changed. I'm learning new things every day so there are at least 3 things going on all at once all the time. I love being ADD. Makes me feel whole.

So my Etsy site is humming along. No sales but I don't really care. Of course I'd be delighted if someone were to take one of the creations home with them but that's not what this is about. It's about that place. That opening. That satorical place of flash in the pan enlightening joy of creation.

This one, The Gods Must Be Crazy, hammered and woven silver over water glass. Damn, I love Light!