Lotus Pond Necklace

This is my latest necklace and I have to admit that it wasn't my original idea. This is direct from the book Flourish by Christi Friesen. It really wasn't hard to do at all! In fact, stringing those darn little beads and pearls was the most difficult part ( these old eyes aren't as sharp as they once were).

Studio Update

Making these flowers has been such fun, but I know that these a just a diversion while my heart and mind continue their dialogue about clay versus paints. It's ongoing.

Attractive Magnets.....get it?

I've had so much fun making flowers and then trying to figure out what to do with them. These are all magnets. Did you get my little joke?

For a Friend

I've been really forgetful about taking pictures lately. I'll finish some things and rush them off to the gallery before even thinking about photographing them. Then they sell and I never get another chance. But here is one I remembered to record. I've never tried one of this type of necklace before, but I like the way it turned out. What do you think?

New Year, New Direction

Instead of a new year's resolution, I have made a new decision about where I'm taking my creative life or where it's taking me. For the last two years I've experimented with polymer clay, making lots of beads which are still piled up in ( or rolling around) my studio. Besides some jewelry I haven't produced much.

My big decision seems so obvious, but it took me two years to 'get it'. Ta da..........the big decision is to leave jewelry behind and just create. That's right. Just create. No matter where that takes me. Here is a partial picture of what I'm working on now.

So check back often. That's another part of my big decision....get back on the blogging track and post more often like I did two years ago. Happy new year!!

I can't believe this is my 300th post!

Fall Is Here

It seems like it was just sweltering, hot, and sticky and now, all of a sudden, it's glorious fall....my favorite season. Every afternoon I can hear the high school band practicing and it brings back all those college football games we went to in South Carolina. Good memories.

This is one of the pieces I've made from the Stroppel cane, which went viral last week on Flickr. It's a fun and easy cane, and you can't really tell how it will look until you slice it open.

I've been working real hard on my entry to the Tidewater Artists Miniature Show, which will open October 21 at the Charles Taylor Art Center in Hampton, Virginia. I've entered for the past four or five years and its a fun show with a lot of ingenious entries. Last year I took second in sculpture, so keep your fingers crossed for me this year.

After the show opens I'll reveal all three of my entries for you to see. Let me know what you think.

Loads of Fun

I mean it! I had loads of fun today. I've reorganized my studio so I can swing around from pencils to paint and back again. I just have to remind myself to dress accordingly. With the pencils you can wear anything and only get smudges on your hands, but with the paint...well, it's hello bag lady. I'm glad no one rang my doorbell today.

'Leslie's Peppers' are done except for minor improvements. So I turned to my paint and got some things going on a sort of abstract landscape. It might get more abstract as we go along, but I hate to use that word to describe my paintings. I don't really know what they are, but I sure have fun painting them. I'm going to get a few finished and enter a show and find a gallery for them. So, while my layers of glazing were drying I swung back around and started work on a floral, which I have never done before. And I'm not even a fan of floral art work, but this is a photo I took last year in my front yard, and the colors are lucious. I hope I can replicate them with the pencils.