Making glass beads can be a constant creative drain. Are you bursting with ideas, or completely blank when you sit down to torch? Need help igniting your creativity making glass beads? Here's how I spark my inspiration? Sitting down to torch is always the worst time for me unless I am prepared! So, I've resorted to [...]
Why Art is Good for Your Health... Everywhere you look online & off, the media, research scientists & spiritual leaders are exploring the secrets to a healthy heart, ridding diseases, & living a healthy long life. So, how does art fit in? With buzz words like ‘psychological resilience’ & ‘functional connectivity'; global awareness campaigns [...]
Are you bursting with ideas, or completely blank when you sit down to torch? Do you need help creating your glass beads? Want to know how I spark my inspiration? Sitting down to torch is always the worst time unless I am prepared! So, I've resorted to doing a few things that I'll share with you [...]
How to live a Joyful and Healthy Life? The answer is entwined with the "Sea Cave"... One of the Sea Caves Join me as I travel the bumpy road with my magical dance with glass. I'm always chasing the elusive "joyful and healthy life" I cherish. It was a custom order for an [...]
EXCITING NEWS! I am doing my first bead show in 4 years this weekend! It's a little scary dipping my toes back into the bead show world. I hope to meet new friends that I've gotten to converse with over FB, Lampwork Etc. and my blog. It would be wonderful to put a face on [...]
This past week has been stressful and I had to do EFT tapping everyday to keep myself afloat! My son's 13 year old cat stopped eating. We had to feed her with a syringe every few hours all last week. She died Tuesday, in my son's arms. She was his constant companion and it felt [...]
One of the most asked questions when I did bead shows was "How did I create that", pointing to a bead. So I am thinking... "What a great blog post"! I sat for 30 minutes and thought about the answer and realized that I'm not consciously aware of how I create. It's kind of like [...]
Being an artist all my life, I've never given much thought about how I create what I do. I've done a lot of studying of art... I started with private art lessons when I was 10 years old, then college, and finally 4 more years in private art institutions. But not until last weekend have [...]
I love being an artist! I see the world in bursts of vivid colors, flashes of unbelievable beauty and moments of inexpressible perfection so wonderful that sometimes I feel my heart will explode! It makes me strange acting on occasions, especially if I'm standing next to my cool, collected, reserve husband. But, no matter, my [...]
I love antiques and twice a year antique dealers from all over the world gather at Round Top, Texas for 10 days to sell anything you can image! You could walk for days looking for the things you can't live without and never cover the whole show (believe me, I've tried!) Plenty of colorful irresistible [...]
