Posts Tagged ‘clay’

Finally, back in the studio!

Lately I have been taking care of my wife after she had shoulder surgery, which meant no studio time for me. Well, her recovery is going so well that she is back to work two weeks post surgery. She is a pencil pusher and it wasn’t her dominant arm so all is well. She is [...]

Central California Clayathon update!!

Only three days left to register for this event. Check it out right here You don’t want to be left out of this fun I am thinking!!

Boy howdy…life can get in the way

And unfortunately it didn’t include any blogging. I promise to be better now. I have been working on a “Rainbow” mosaic using my guild mate byrd tetzlaff’s “grownup coloring book” as the pattern. I am very happy with how it is turning out. Here is where I started 10 days ago. and here is where [...]

Sunshine award.

I was awarded the Sunshine award by Melissa of Butterscotch Grove Wow, an unexpected award on my part. Thanks Melissa!Now..for my 12 blogs.PCDJudaica JournalWoolgatheringDAMBeadcombersRavens ClayManiguetteBarbaraMoeTonjaBetinnaKim whew, that was hard….just picking 12. Have a great rest of the week!

Tree of Life

The sculpture I made for a juried show at our Museum of Art came home today. No one bought it so now it will grace our house unless someone from Temple wants it. In case you missed it, here is a picture of it.

oiks

:::::::: picks head up from the grindstone and looks around:::: whoa, dusty in here. As you all probably know I haven’t posted a lot lately. Why you ask? (ok, maybe you don’t ask but I am going to tell you anyway) I have been cranking out things to take to the IPCG retreat in Chicago [...]

Meteor Bead Prototypes.

The last couple of weeks I have been very busy doing yard work (while it was below 85 degrees) and then cleaning the house for a BBQ/pool party. That has severely limited my creative time, along with a custom project for a friend, but I was able to find bits and pieces of time to [...]

New Direction

Besides doing beading and making some simple items I am experimenting on a technique that is, to me, a combination of old and new. I am trying something new…and so far it is looking like it will be doing what I want it to do. As a wee little teaser here is a picture of [...]

copper focal finished

whoa, what an insane last week what with trying to get things finished for Relay For Life. I promise to have pictures of that soon, but they are on Karen’s camera not mine so it will have to wait. However, I did manage to raise another $130 during Relay to donate to the ACS which [...]

The Big day

was today. Yep, i really did it. I took my “L’Chiam-To Life” down to the Bakersfield Art Museum and entered it into the exhibit. Talk about nervous. Oy. They said I should know if I get juried in at the end of this week or early next week. I don’t think I will be nervous [...]