Pumpkin Time

Yes ma'am, I've been making pumpkin beads.

Info for the beadmakers: I used 'creamsicle' orange glass, it has lots of color variation as you work it.
The ridges are made with a Michael Barley 'Baleen" curved tool. The encasing is just plain old Moretti super clear.

A big cord bracelet that features a pumpkin bead.
I made it as a sample bracelet for a bead shop and was stunned when shoppers bought all the components to recreate the bracelet for themselves - no changes, exact copies. It made me feel very weird.

Squirrel Girl

I'm so busy it's nuts!

The Runaway Bracelet

I made this bracelet as a sample for a local bead shop.

The plan was to use my lampwork beads, with their commercial components, to show shoppers how to incorporate glass into their chunky leather cord bracelets.

The plan worked.
I sold a small mountain of large hole glass beads to people who came to my trunk show yesterday.

The three beads in the bracelet were off mandrel, very amorphous, free-form donuts.
I wish I had photographed them before I put them on the bracelet (always in a hurry).
And, I wish I still had the bracelet... I sold it right off the display.

Sigh.
I really wanted it for myself, good thing I can make more, eh?

Trunk Show

The front and back of the postcard I designed for a trunk show.

I've been torching beads like mad, despite a couple of days spent on jury duty...
All my Rochester peeps should come and see me on Saturday and keep me company, eight hours is a really long time for me to sit still in one place.

Wet Pears

I adore pears.

It was pouring rain but I foolishly walked along the edge of a busy highway to take about a hundred photos of a pair of pear trees. Looking for that perfect photo to make a painting from. I got soaked, I got an earache, I got the images.

Chicken on Asphalt & A Studio Sunset

Another new oil painting.
The sunset from my studio window.

Making Apple Branches

The first oil painting finished in my new studio.
I took photographs of its' progress all along the way.

Lastly, the photograph that I took in my sister's front yard of her apple tree with my phone.

Done & Done

I have finished two oil paintings - the first ones to come out of my new studio.
Yes, it feels amazing to have such a perfect, perfect place to work.
The one the left is "Chicken on Asphalt" and on the right "Apple Branches."
Both will be at "Artist's Row" on Sunday, September 15th.

New & Gruesome

New glam skull earrings.
Bone or stone skulls, rhinestone collars and glass headpins.

Painting Progress

Painting up a storm.

The Husky Parts

I've been playing with my button machine...

Blackout poetry buttons and nasty faces.

I will have these and hundreds more at Artist's Row on Sunday.
Each one is one of a kind and $1 each.

Pinning It - Old School

Sure I have a Pinterest account.
You can see it by clicking here.
But I also 'pin' the old fashioned way, with pushpins, clippings and a wall.

I have 400 followers on Pinterest - who are these people?
My daughter says Pinterest is "Tumbler for housewives," I think it's more like visual Farmville for artists.

Silly Raspberry

One charm, in a pile of charms, that I made this week.