Wordless wednesday...

Hey I actually remembered to do this on a Wednesday!



This is the leaded glass door panel that I did for Mahogany Manor the fall of 2002.... It replaced a very modern Calla Lily Panel that belonged to the former owners....

Use the Muse IV... "On the Fringe"

This might be more appropriately called Where's the MUSE? The early bird deadline for entry for the 4th Use the Muse contest is in one hour... I actually sent my entry in at 11:25 AT it was due at 11:59 ET... It's actually been done for a couple of days.. but I've been having photo issues.

This is your "sneak peak" at my entry... My husband said my description should have been something along the lines of an eclectic collection of strange/interesting/weird JUNK! This is not a reflection on the sponsor Artbeads.com. Yes some of the components I used were from them, but the majority came from my stash! (I kept their components to use later!)

When will you get to see the rest??? Sometime on or after April 12th... The anticipation builds!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Moonrise on the Tundra

Remember the ABS Carnival blog I did on Passion?

Well the Moderator "boss/owner"....? has compiled all of the Passion blogs and here is a link to what she came up with.... "Happy Saint Patrick's Carnival Bloggers Day

Here's the link to my blog post.

What I've been doing recently!

This is what I've been doing in my dungeon this winter... these are for the dining room of a B&B in Saint John ..Mahogany Manor there will ultimately be 2 more panels between these two... I did the dining room door for them the second fall I was here... The border 'matches' an original Victorian window in the stairwell. (The combined length of these 2 panels is just under 6 feet).

Almost Wordless Wednesday

"Almond Blossom" is inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's painting of the same name... The painting was this months ABS challenge...

Then I got talked into putting a piece into the ISGB's Rites of Spring Auction on Ebay... will put up a link to the actual auction and an image of the full piece once the auction starts!

Oops I just realized that it's Thursday today... so I guess my title should read Somewhat Wordy and Almost Wednesday!

ABS Carnival Blog... Passion

Passion .. I asked my DH what I was Passionate about, thinking…he’d say something like making beads, jewellery, maybe even knitting… something like that… What did he actually say…” that I was Passionate about my cat Zoom Zoom”… Well he (Zoomies) is awfully cute and very affectionate as long as I’m wearing Polar Fleece….


Since I didn’t get the answer I wanted I tried again… second answer was “your Garden” Ok I’ll buy that … I spend most days in the summer pulling weeds edging gardens… moving plants looking at flowers and wondering what I can buy next year that will do better. For those of you who don’t know me I am stuck here, 7 days a week from mid June to mid Sept as I run a small Gallery featuring work by Canadian Women… and unless I can get my DH look after it for a day… I’m it as far as staff goes! I have a baby monitor in the gallery and receivers all over the house… so I can make beads… and garden… and do chain maille…


My beads… I’m self taught… back in the mid 90’s… there was almost no info then… no pictures of other peoples beads… no nothing! Every couple of years we would drive to Washington state and buy glass from Mike Frantz, (he was still operating out of his garage in those days...) One year he had a floral plunge bead in his display case… I had to know how it was made… He sold me a tungsten pick and I came home and attempted to make them…This is an early one… (That worked!)











I refer to them now as flower garden beads…































My first soft glass instructor was Leah Fairbanks… (I loved her class.. would highly recommend it to anyone who makes beads!) That first class was actually way over my head … but I took a weekend class from her again a couple of years ago and moved my flowers from inside the bead to the surface…












I really do love flowers… I grow Orchids in the house so that I have flowers year round… But when it comes to my beads flowers can be any colour and shape... I have never tried to make an orchid on a bead I probably never will, why muck with perfection!