More Buttoned Up

 

 

 

A few more handmade glass buttons. (SOLD OUT)

Thrifty Britches

Don't you dare waste a scrap of glass.
I use up every short rod, little dinky pile of frit and even the popped off end flakes to make buttons.

 

I make mine a little differently than most.
They're done off mandrel and the holes are pierced and then flame polished.
The holes are super smooth and rounded, so they will never cut your thread or yarn.

Here's a little strawberry button.
I just put all of these in my etsy shop (SOLD OUT)

Poster Child

I made another event poster.

Party time!

What's She Building In There?

Working on a couple of necklaces.

These necklaces are called 'Hippie Chick' necklaces.

I take my big dish of stray single beads and lay out a pretty necklace.
Then just simply rosary chain them together with bronze or sterling silver.
This time I added some ceramic and bone skulls.

Tee Shirts, Posters and Buttons, Oh My

Very few beads but a lot of commercial work this week.
All for an event that's part of this year's Rochester Cocktail Revival.

This looks like quite the party - above is my design for the poster and postcard.
Below is the tee shirt design.

Here are the bits for Facebook and Instagram.

A giant vinyl banner for behind the stage (something I've never been asked to produce before).

Here's a photo of the banner out in the real world.

And lastly, my favorite thing in the world to make - buttons!

Phew.
My butt is flat from so much time parked in front of my computer.

The Easter Bunny is Coming to Town

"Bunny Hunny"
Oil on canvas.

Twenty years ago I painted a series of 'portraits' of vintage plush toys.
This one was hard to photography because it was done with a lot of metallic and iridescent oil paints.

The Goddess of 420

New poster work!

Sounds like a party to me.

My (Grape) Jam

'Vinyard' - 36"x36" oil on canvas

It's always very satisfying to finish a big painting.

Sweet Tweets

Two little lampwork robin pendants.

The bodies are 'special brown' dipped in fine raku frit, the breasts are 'carrot red.'
The bails are bronze.

Do you know this nursery rhyme?

Little cock robin
Sitting on a pole
Niddle noddle went his head
Poop went his hole

(they don't make 'em like they used to)

Springtime Flametime

Put everything away and pulled a whole mess of new rods to get spring-y with.

That little short lavender end piece in the middle is Cim's 'Crocus.'
The most beautiful glass color in the world.

Big Babies

Some really big capped and cored beads.

The cored holes are the standard big hole bead size.
The caps were cut from a vintage silver plated tray with a disc cutter and then domed.

I'm using a graphite marver from Divardi Glass to help shape the beads, it's called a 'three slot disk shaper.'

Hippie Chick no.5

I can't stop making these.
Whenever I have enough stray beads I chain one together.

Test beads, earring pairs that don't quite match up, end of the day beads...
they all go into a dish and eventually end up in one of these necklaces.

Easy peasy, there's no clasp, simple rosary style chain links made with 18g bronze.

Ball Chain Gang

Capped and cored big hole beads on ball chain.

I could be the worst letter stamper on the planet - and I don't care.