spring is coming....

It's almost warm enough to
(a) work on hot glass in my garage!
(b) work on larger cement project in my garage!

....the "almost" is only in there because...... not only are the weather folks predicting cold weather & snow for this weekend, but due to hasty winter preparations last fall..... my garage is not exactly in great shape for anything other than storage.... so I think that first big pring project will be to re-organize the garage in to a better workspace. yup. big plans, people. big plans.

Going for a walk

Spent some time playing with watercolor splotches and a permanent marker/pen a week or two ago:



More to come in the next few days, if I don'tget distracted by other stuff.

Wine Glass Markers

Playin' with spare parts:

Glass Vessels

I took a fun class the other weekend. Here are the results. Now I really wish it were warmer out because I want to go out in my garage and play with hot glass....

Pre-dawn skies

Blue glass earrings:

Dog Day Afternoon

Catching up with some light switch cover posts:

Silk painting

Two Christmases ago my parents gave me a silk painting kit. It took me until this past weekend to get up enough courage to try it out. Not surprisingly, I'm starting with abstract colors and SALT! I'm totally enamoured with the effects you can get by sprinkling salt on wet watercolors.... you can see the salt crystals in the 3rd picture (where I haven't brushed them off just yet).






Now what.... what do I do with these? Hmmmm............

Dinner table in January

Here's what my table can look like when I put my mind to it :)

Skull pancake!!

First interesting pancake of 2010! oh wait. this is not a pancake. this is injera made wisconsin style (with miller light BEER instead of club soda!)

Small Fish Prints

So a while back I ordered a different kind of linoleum composite to try out for printmaking and I'm sad to say that I don't really like it all that much. It's harder to cut than the stuff I was using before (though still not as hard as true battleship linoleum) and it's more likely to curl it's edges under which makes printing hard. I'm currently drying a couple blocks under a heavy weight to see if I maybe can press the curve out, but I'm not exactly holding my breath. It also seems more sensitive to ink consistency than the stuff I was using before. I was trying out a new ink that turned out to be WAY waterier than I'm used to, and that stuff printed even more poorly than the ones in this picture. hmmmm. I will still figure out a way to use them up and work with them. I hope.

Jazz Trio

Fairy Light Switches

Custom light switches made for a friend's Christmas present:

Disgruntled Holiday Cookies

Two weeks ago I invited myself (and a friend or two) on S's quest to make 9 dozen cookies. Here are the results:

DISGRUNTLED HOLIDAY COOKIES!








And my favorite:

Blue Monday Stitches

Here's Lindsay's 365+++++ day promise delivered:



(others are on their way ........ slowly.)

Of Love and Hunger

SNOW!!!!

At a friend's suggestion, instead of immediately shoveling my driveway, I built a snowman! (snowgirl? snowbear? snowballerina?)



And also decided that my new(ish) bumblebee sculpture (acquired at a local flea market just before Halloween this year) looked pretty neat-o in the snow, too:



Needless to say, not much shoveling happened tonight :)

while i'm posting embarassing pictures

Check out how cool dusty spots can be just before you clean them!!!

whoops

I thought I could move an entertainment center downstairs by myself.

I was wrong.

(Nothing was hurt in this process but my pride. and the entertainment center. And it's possible that the cats thought the world was ending)

Now available on ETSY!

Select stuff now available on ETSY!

http://wintersnowgypsy.etsy.com


but this, I think, is going to be slow going folks. There's something left to be desired in ETSY's interface for uploading stuff --- though I'm sure eventually I'll get the hang of it :)

Wood shavings

I did a little "woodwork" this weekend and on more than one occasion i very nearly drilled too deeply while getting mesmerized by the wood shavings swirling up the drill bit.