Beautiful Butterfly

I've been experimenting with a new kind of dichroic glass called crinklized dichroic, as it leaves a crinkle effect. It comes as a smooth surface and when it is fired, the dichroic surface crinkles, sending thousands of miniature crystalline-like mirrors upwards and creating dynamic shapes throughout the glass. I've noticed some of the colors turn out with this effect better than others. I made this butterfly pendant and the pink really turned out great. If you click on the picture, you can see it bigger with more detail. I'm sure I'll be experimenting lots more with this glass, so stay tuned!

Rock On!

I've been working on my new line of fused glass guitar pendants. LOVE the way these turned out - they have dichroic glass accents and 2 swarovski crystals that adorn the body of the guitar to ROCK YOUR WORLD!!!! Check them out in my etsy shop here.

Awards, Art & Gratitude, Oh My!

I am so honored to have received the Kreativ Blogger Award, not once, but twice now! I have received blogging awards before and although I am truly grateful for receiving them, I am not one to play by the rules, and don't list my "favorite" things and pass them along to other bloggers. I do sincerely appreciate them, but being the busy gal that I am, I don't partake in playing...... so YES, I am a chain mail breaker, blog award breaker, and I don't ever, I mean EVER, pass along emails that tell me to send this to x-amount of people or bad luck will happen (or good luck, for that matter). No hard feelings. As far as my favorite things.....my FAVORITE thing of all besides my family is ART and if you follow my blog, you surely know this by now.

So, now that I confessed all that, I did want to take the time to give a shout out to the gal who awarded me this, as I have a personal LOVE for her and her husband's artwork. I found the fabulous RavenX on her etsy shop, Dirty Pretty Things and immediately started following her blog. The name of her shop alone intrigued me! Through her blog, she had posted a give-away that her husband, MikieP, was having in his etsy shop. He was giving away one free mini-print every day through the month of February. Well, I adore his artwork, with all the superheroes, whimsical illustrations and the process he goes through making his art. Its fascinating! Of course I entered virtually every day and low and behold, I won one of his prints! I picked my favorite - The Little Seamstress:



His description of this piece is:
This little girl was born without a Heart.
With Love and Hope, she crafted one of fabric in her sewing room, so that someday she would be able to give it to her soul mate.













Well, there is a mate that went along with the seamstress in his shop and I had to get him also, as one cannot be without the other. This one is The Little Craftsman:


This little boy was born without a Heart.
With Spirit and Passion, he crafted one of wood in his workshop so that someday he would be able to give it to his soul mate.
























I was then on a roll and of course had to get a mini print from Raven and I had my eye on her piece, The Sweet Escape.

Of course I'm a huge Gwen Stefani fan and I could NOT pass this up. And I love the saying she has on it: "i know i've been a real bad girl" - because really, we all have a little bad in us!

Gearing up for Art Show

I have my first art show of the season this weekend and am going through everything, making things, getting organized, etc. In other words, I am in my "mad woman stage". Hell hath no fury when it comes to the week of me preparing for my art shows! LOL! I wanted to take a quick second to write in my blog and feature a few of my favorite things, as well as my newest creations that I am taking to the show. Nothing like a little self-promotion, right?!?!




Of course, my fused glass Audrey piece (I'm still hanging on to that one, but she has over 1,550 views in my etsy shop and 41 people who hearted her). Guess she's waiting on that perfect person to buy her!!!




















My city scene - one of my first larger pieces that I made (and this is actually the "small" version of the city scene - I had a much larger one that sold in my etsy shop). This was made before I even purchased my ring saw, so every piece of glass was cut with a plain old hand-held glass cutter. I love the way this looks!






My new line of fun ceramic pendant necklaces. I love the simplicity of these and I plan on making more with different designs.








And lastly, my ring collection! These are all made with fused glass and ceramics. I love big, chunky rings and I think this picture supports that statement! Of course, I had to make a few OSU ceramic rings for the die-hard Buckeye fans here in Columbus, OH - puhleeese do not get me started on that topic! (if you live here, you know what I mean!) LOL!

Love Struck

Sticking with the "love" theme, another framed fused glass art piece that was inspired by the "old school" tattoo style that I truly love. What better way to show someone how crazy in love you are with them!




















Of course, this piece is listed on my etsy site - if you want more details, click here.

Tree of Love

I haven't made a framed fused glass art piece in a while and came across this beautiful brown marbleized glass that I fell in love with. I immediately knew I wanted to make some kind of tree with it. After making the tree with swirly branches, I was stumped - it needed something. I had these 2 little fused glass doves that I had made a while back and were sitting in my stash of "not sure what to do with" glass. I loved the idea of the love birds. Now, when I got the brown glass, I also got the coolest cranberry marbleized glass and decided to make hearts with this glass. It kind of all came together yesterday as I was playing with different ways to arrange everything - I had the hearts sitting nearby and it was an "ah ha" moment when I decided to incorporate them in with the tree. And now it is complete and listed in my etsy shop here.