Caw! Caw!

I started a couple of new crow paintings.

Raven Egg Pendant

Not now I am incubating.

Glass 'Raven Egg' pendant with a handmade silver plate bead cap cut from vintage silverplate.

Ghost Tweety

A ghostly Tweety Bird glass holds my 'Super Clear' stringers.
Just another studio Monday.
I heart lampworking.

Growing Magnolias

A little corner of  large oil painting that is still in process.

Nuggets of Joy

New big, chunky beads for a charm bracelet.

Started with a black barrel core then added on a little square of silvery dichro.
Heavily encased with clear, transparent teal and transparent grass green.
Finally shaped into faceted nuggets using my trusty stainless steel cheese knife.

I had forgotten how much I like forming the facets on this style of bead.
All the dichro and the divots give them so much sparkle.

Make More Birds

Good thing I still love making these little glass birds.

I attach the bails with 2-part epoxy.

A bird in the hand is worth... $18.

Rootbeer Barrels

These remind me of that old hard candy - rootbeer barrels.

Effetre 'Topaz" and Cim's 'Maple' glass rolled in Val Cox 'Iris Gold' frit and reduced lightly.

Beads, in graduated sizes, all linked together with 18g bronze wire.

Mushroom Lovers

A couple of new necklaces.

Time for something fun.

My lampwork glass mushroom pendants strung up with vintage, scavenged chains, brightly colored jump rings and random charms.

Slow Poke Free Bird

Be My Valentine?

I've got your earrings right here.

Lampwork glass and brass.

New Earrings!

Coming out of my post-holiday makers hangover.

Martini Time

Heading home from my studio.
Soon, oh yes, soon is will be light out after 6:00pm.

Snowday Cornbread

Making cornbread in a cast iron skillet is a perfect, subzero, housebound, activity.

The key, in my whitebread opinion, is to brown some butter with a bit a bacon fat.
Brown butter is magical stuff.

It was as good as it looks.

Snow Daze

Backyard snowscape with chandelier and red Weber grill.
Baby it's cold outside.