In front of the wall - lightswitch

Aqua Blue Pebble Magnets

Round one of trying to figure out what to do with fusing experiments landed me with a set of five small magnets....

Orange Butterfly Lightswitch

I recent went through a couple-day-long phase of making lightswitches.... if I can stay on track, there should be something like a post a day of these.... (~fingers crossed~)

2010 Tie Dye begins .....NOW! :D

Refurbishing some old canvas bags that came from previous employers:

Little furry helpers....

I thought it might be fun to make a "rag rug" out of some old(ish) towels...... my helpers think a half-finished project as soft & cozy as this one needs to be tested.... (gee thanks for pre-covering it in cat hair guys)

Bird book!

I practiced coptic bookbinding a couple of times before making that book for the friend's wedding..... (sadly, I still didn't get part of her book as tightly bound as I'd liked to have --- her covers still shift left/right more than I think they should).... here's the only one that I remembered to photograph before giving it away:

Linz's magnets

A set of four magnets for a friend who lives right off of a nature preserve:

Lara's magnets

A set of four magnets for a friend with a purple kitchen:

Karuna's magnets

A set of four magnets made for a friend who enjoys yellow & other bright colors:

Steve's funky magnet

Playing around with some liquid glass = surprise bubbles!



I thinkthis kind of looks like a seahorse.... butif you turn it up-side-down, it looks like a very stylized Ganesh head. (note to my readers - no, I don't actually particularly like these colors together, but sometimes a person has to try new stuff out just to see what it might look like :P

Instant gratification

Cutting up small watercolor remnants to make cards:



(Note to self - pick a better background for photographing this stuff next time)

Spring Flowers - take 3

Notice the new tile floor & new cabinetry in the background of this photo. Yup. I still LOVE my new kitchen.... now to put the moulding back up one of these days.....

Spring flowers - take 2

Flowers cut from my backyard:

Spring flowers - take 1

Flowers for to spruce up my kitchen/dining room table:



(yes - in the background that is a small kiln you see that lived in my kitchen for a couple of weeks :)

Not all fusing ends in success

Attempt at capturing dried stuff inthe middle of glass..... ends up in blah & bubbled-blah:



Actually - the bubbled one looks rather cool up close --- but sadly there's not really much I can do with somethign this fragile (and lumpy):

Not so great "before & after" of fusing

Steve wanted to see before & after of the kiln shot below.... welll..... turns out I'm not always good at remembering the "after" photo shoot.....

BEFORE:



AFTER (look in the upper right-hand corner --- you can see one full size square from the above "before" shot and lots of little pieces of "after after" where I ended up breaking up the fused pieces & melting them again to be smaller):



Mostly I'm just playing around with what I have to see what I might come up with.... so far, I gots nothin'...........

First ever loaf of no-knead bread

Baking is art, too, right?

Coptic Bookbinding

For my friend's wedding:

Warm glass

Every so often, I decide that I want to play with glass fusing (on a very small scale):

More Pot Holders!

These were actually made in March, but couldn't be posted right away as they were gifts and it just wouldn't do to show them off before the recipients got them :D