Catch up day . . .
I am trying to catch up on LJ and respond to some past comments and also some posts. So if you see one that might be kind of old, well, that will be me.
I got my new iPad Air 2 the week of the kid on the roof, so it sat in the unopened box for five days until I talked on the phone with my sister and she said, “What! Kathy, go and get it out right now and I will help you set it up!” So I did and she did.
We are just so much on the same brain waves and she gets me and understands the way my mind works (and sometimes doesn’t work). I love my sister so much! Anyway almost two hours later I had brain overload, but I had a very good start to it all. I was reluctant to get it out much until I got a protective case for it and that arrived yesterday. Now I feel like I will be comfortable with it all. I’ll be at the gallery on Thursday and I’m taking it with me and getting on their WiFi. Friend Debra will be there, so if we’re not too busy we can play around on them.
Studio stuff . . .
Who would have thought, certainly not me . . .
I started making the wire trees late last summer, never having a clue how they would be received. I first put them out there for sale November/December of last year. I keep very good records of all my sales, and just for fun the other day I started counting up the number of trees I sold, either at holiday shows, from my studio and at the gallery. I was pleasantly shocked/surprised; I have sold just under 60 to date! I finish them in several different ways, on different bases, and the little hanging ones I mounted on glass cabs or agates seemed to be the most popular.
So now I’ve got a new idea . . .
I had put them on the back burner for awhile because I thought maybe all the wire twisting was causing some of my finger joints to be stiff and ache. So I didn’t make any for a few months, but since I still have the problem, I guess the wire twisting was not it.
I have very few trees left at the gallery and my inventory here at home is dwindling fast. When I was buying some frames last week, I saw these little 6”x8” shadow boxes for 50% off. I bought six and thought I’d try to make a little scene in them with the trees being the focal point and some of my stained glass as the background. I’ve got one done and the other two almost finished. I kind of like the worn look of the wood. This one has two birds added that I made out of little glass shards. The background is a beautiful, rich Youghiogheny Stipple glass that I bought 20+ years ago up in Connellsville, PA at the original Youghiogheny Glass Co. Their glass is premium in every way, hand made, not machine rolled, and vibrantly disperses light in a very unique way. I’m such a hoarder, but it’s way past due to let some of it go.
Here it is sitting on a shelf with no backlighting . . .
Here it is held up to the light in a window . . .
There can be so much hidden deep inside a single piece of glass and its beauty is usually only revealed or released by the light.
This is probably why I just can’t seem to let it go.
I got my new iPad Air 2 the week of the kid on the roof, so it sat in the unopened box for five days until I talked on the phone with my sister and she said, “What! Kathy, go and get it out right now and I will help you set it up!” So I did and she did.
We are just so much on the same brain waves and she gets me and understands the way my mind works (and sometimes doesn’t work). I love my sister so much! Anyway almost two hours later I had brain overload, but I had a very good start to it all. I was reluctant to get it out much until I got a protective case for it and that arrived yesterday. Now I feel like I will be comfortable with it all. I’ll be at the gallery on Thursday and I’m taking it with me and getting on their WiFi. Friend Debra will be there, so if we’re not too busy we can play around on them.
Studio stuff . . .
Who would have thought, certainly not me . . .
I started making the wire trees late last summer, never having a clue how they would be received. I first put them out there for sale November/December of last year. I keep very good records of all my sales, and just for fun the other day I started counting up the number of trees I sold, either at holiday shows, from my studio and at the gallery. I was pleasantly shocked/surprised; I have sold just under 60 to date! I finish them in several different ways, on different bases, and the little hanging ones I mounted on glass cabs or agates seemed to be the most popular.
So now I’ve got a new idea . . .
I had put them on the back burner for awhile because I thought maybe all the wire twisting was causing some of my finger joints to be stiff and ache. So I didn’t make any for a few months, but since I still have the problem, I guess the wire twisting was not it.
I have very few trees left at the gallery and my inventory here at home is dwindling fast. When I was buying some frames last week, I saw these little 6”x8” shadow boxes for 50% off. I bought six and thought I’d try to make a little scene in them with the trees being the focal point and some of my stained glass as the background. I’ve got one done and the other two almost finished. I kind of like the worn look of the wood. This one has two birds added that I made out of little glass shards. The background is a beautiful, rich Youghiogheny Stipple glass that I bought 20+ years ago up in Connellsville, PA at the original Youghiogheny Glass Co. Their glass is premium in every way, hand made, not machine rolled, and vibrantly disperses light in a very unique way. I’m such a hoarder, but it’s way past due to let some of it go.
Here it is sitting on a shelf with no backlighting . . .
Here it is held up to the light in a window . . .
There can be so much hidden deep inside a single piece of glass and its beauty is usually only revealed or released by the light.
This is probably why I just can’t seem to let it go.