crochet

It's an obsession. Are you interested in custom work? My favorite thing to do is to help someone choose the fit, fiber, and colors that make them feel wonderful! Contact me! 

Landscape Paintings - my soul mate of art

Landscape painting is my truest love. Here are some that are still available for sale. 

fi fi fi

Gouache on paper

30x24"

All the Time - SOLD!

Watercolor on paper

24x30"

Big Brush

Gouache on paper

30x24

He Carried the Cure

Gouache and Wax on paper

24x30

Ten Cor

Gouache on paper

24x30"

Mission

Oil on canvas

30x48"

Ok, everyone act silly this time - SOLD

Gouache on paper

24x30"

2nd place - Noyes Museum of Art Plein Air Festival, 2011

Trading My Cow For Magic Beans

Gouache on Paper

20x28"

Here I Am, Above Tall Trees

Monoprints and Gouache on Paper

25x18.5"

As Around The Sun

Gouache on paper

28x20"

Days Pass SOLD!

Oil on Board

16x20"

Social Media

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audiobooks

Because I'm an avid listener of audiobooks, people often ask me for recommendations. I do review books on Goodreads, but I try to review "the book" itself there. So I thought I'd start a blog about audiobooks that I love. 

#1 I just re-read (listened) to Stardust by Neil Gaimen. I love when authors read their books. There's no question that it's been read as intended. Neil Gaimen is a lovely reader. He has a unique voice, and he sounds like he loves to hear a story. I would be remiss not to say that this book as graphic novel must also be read! So, ideal would be to listen to the book as you look at the graphic novel. I haven't done that yet but I intend to.

Neil has many good audiobooks some (american gods) read by him, others (anansi boys) not, but as he said in the bonus interview at the end of the audiobook, he sometimes feels that the characters need a different narrator. Isn't it nice how much he cares?

First day of school? In June?

My teaching year is done, but tomorrow... Oh tomorrow! I am taking a jewelry class, and I'm so excited! I admit, I hoped for rain this weekend. I wanted to clean up my studio, lay out my tools, go through my findings and sketches... I feel like the kid who is gathering their supplies and packing her backpack for back-to-school.

It's a good time of life to be able to choose the class I'm taking; have some experience, skill, and supplies to set my goals for what I want to learn, practice, and accomplish in the class; and to be in a field I passionately love. 

I can't expect my students to come to art class with all those things, but they can bring some. Luckily, most of them "choose" to be there, and many love art too. I hope my students are all as excited for summer as I am for my summer class, and in the fall I hope they feel the same excitement I feel today. 

Trying to peep my sanity...

Sometimes I look at my work and wonder, "is there something very, very wrong with me?" Then a little glass peep peeks out at me as it's breaking out of its plaster shell. Do I see a teeny smile in its beak? And I know that... Oh gosh... I'm talking to glass peeps... yes, there is indeed something very wrong with me!

Come get your fresh glass peeps next weekend at City Folk Handwork!

http://www.cityfolkhandwork.com/html/events.html

The shy glass peep emerges from its plaster shell into the sunlit field of flowers.
Did it just wink at me? 

Fused Glass Pendants

The dilemma: I've been making fused glass pendant necklaces for years, but they sell so fast I rarely get a chance to photograph them. And they're each unique, truly one of a kind. What catches a person's eye when they see the one they want! The background color? The design? Some abstract imagery they find? Probably a combination of all these. Here are a few that are currently available. And I promise to add more as they come out of the kiln. 

This "strata" design was made with a pattern bars technique

Multimedia necklace - somehow the overalls hardware seemed to go with this pendant, and then of course the necklace needed to be denim. There are several button holes so that it can be worn at different lengths. 

NOT Fused Glass! My twisted, crochet silver wire necklaces  are available in many colors, and can be custom made with the gems or beads of your choice. This one is dark brown jasper. They look like they'd be itchy and uncomfortable, but surprisingly they are not at all so. This style definitely lays better in a short collar- or choker-style length.