Adventures in Glass and Jewelry Art and our CRAZY life!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
We're Still Here...
Hello, sorry for the long silence! We are busy getting ready for the crazy show schedule rapidly approching in June. Chris will be doing lampworking demos at the Plein Air Art Event, this Sunday, May 31st. You can find out more here http://www.prairieloft.org/Prairie_Loft/Plein_Air_Art_Event.html . Tomorrow, we are road tripping to Fremont to check out Main Street Bead Studio, where Chris has beads for sale find out more here http://www.mainstbeadstudio.com/ , and then a trip into Omaha to go to Penzey's Spice Store and a visit to a fun pet store we found recently. We usually order spices on line from Penzey's but a trip to the store is fun. We visited the one in Overland Park, KS last summer, and wow what a smell-rific place! Find out more about them at http://www.penzeys.com/ . So new pictures coming soon, big, bold focal beads from Chris and funky, fun summer jewelry from Steph.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Fun New Game
One of the blogs I read regularly, the Maria Grimes~Garden Path Beads link on my list, is running a game on her website. It is played like the Where in the World is Matt Lauer game from the Today show. You check out her landmark pic and if you can identify it the contact info is listed and there are prizes too! I managed to get a prize ticket for one of the pics! Want to play, here's the link http://www.gardenpathbeads.com/pages/Game.htm , Good Luck!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
New Bead Sets
Chris has been working with frits. These beads are some of what he has made. I believe the purple set has sold. That makes the 3rd or 4th set of those that have sold in the past month or so. Very popular color combination! I like the pair with the reds and oranges. I think the frit on those is the same as the green bead. Just a different base color makes it look completely different.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Another New Design
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
New Bead Design
Monday, May 11, 2009
Tatterpillers
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Earth Day Fishing Results
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Pansies!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Blue Bird of Happiness
Thursday, May 7, 2009
One Last Easter Photo
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Laughter is the Best Medicine
Last night, I was invited by my good friend, Leslie, to an evening event at her church. It was a ladies salad supper with an very funny speaker afterwards. The gal that spoke is Sue Brown, who used to work for the extension service but now does motivational/entertaining speeches. The theme was laughter and health. She says that we need to laugh and smile at least 40 times each day. Sue said that we should keep a humor journal jotting down the things that make us smile, because we will forget them otherwise. She also talked about whether you are a 90/10 person or a 10/90 person, finding good 90% of the time or only finding it 10% of the time. We all know those 10/90 people! Her grandfather told her that it was our choice whether each day would be a great day or a lousy day. I came home after laughing hard for a half hour, and I was giddy. Chris and Mina were wondering what we drank at this supper because I was downright goofy! I made Mina laugh so hard about a squirrel that made a poor judgement call and ended up with his tail waving in the breeze, that she was crying. I got up this morning with the determination that it was going to be a GREAT day! Guess what? I made the sun shine today! Me all by myself! Yes, delusion does live in me, but I am going with it! My favorite quote from last night~“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” Have you smiled at any of this? My work here is done.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Pretty Ponies
Thought I would give you a break from the Easter pics and show you some of the pretty horses Chris has been making. We have had good feed back on his colored horses (in the form of sales!), so he has broadened his color palette. We are getting them ready for the Cottonwood Festival and Flatwater Festival coming in June to Hastings, Nebraska.
Monday, May 4, 2009
More Nature
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Nature Girl
Mina. Loves. Nature. Here she is enjoying it at Easter in the woods, where she can hike, swing in crazy tree swings with her cousins, climb trees, fish, and canoe. They also hunted eggs in the woods and found "moonbeams" (flat marbles) in the dark on a night hike. This was also at Chris's aunt and uncle's place where we stayed at Easter time.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Memorial Tree Planting
Friday, May 1, 2009
Earth Lodge
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