Category: Other media
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A few weeks ago I threw my largest plate yet on the wheel. It was lovely, and I had plans for it. I painted the middle in a denim blue underglaze and painstakingly carefully freehanded in the filigree. Alas, something happened between then and when I got the bisqueware out of the kiln – the…
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Welcome to the first of 5 blog posts that feature the projects and skills in my new book – Resin Jewelry, available for purchase Wednesday Sept 18th! To celebrate, I’m giving away 2 copies of the book on Wednesday. Entering your name is simple–just leave a comment on this post, or any of the next…
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From my intro: I have been working with resin for 6 years, and in that time I’ve made some beautiful things, but also had some tragic failures. I’ve been inspired by the beautiful things to keep going, and learned from the failures until I got to a point where I could get predictable results. Over…
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On the trip last weekend I was blown away by having got both this photo: And this photo: And I spent a good chunk of the trip dreaming of, and madly pursuing, having northern lights, stars and fireflies all in the same photo. I wanted it so badly I must have projected it out into…
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Here’s something fun I found this morning, an online app that lets you create word clouds. It’s free, and didn’t require a membership. Here’s the site. I made mine by making a list of words. Words I repeated were bigger in the final word cloud. It was a fun exercise, I started by just listing…
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This piece is probably the most popular piece of visual art I have ever made: The piece is called ‘The Red Girl’ and her name is Dinah. This is how the piece came about. In 2007 my mom had to undergo surgery and it was a very difficult year for our family. When the surgery…
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Remember this guy? I loved it so much I thought I should paint it, so I did. Acrylic on canvas, with acrylic ink for small details. I’m nowhere near as good as I’d like to be with paint… it’s been a while! I’m in the zone though, so I’ll be trying to find more time…
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It was tough to pick from such beautiful crafts (knitting, card-making, crochet and scrap booking were popular), but the winner of the necklace is Rosemary! Rosemary wrote: Quilting, sewing, beading, kumihimo. Over the years I have tried many things. These are my top 4 currently. I picked this one because this is first I’ve heard…
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Tito and I have these little IKEA lamps beside the bed – and the other night I (having, no doubt, some very serious nocturnal karate match going on) decided to fling my arm out and smash mine. What a mess. Rather than brave the madness that is IKEA I whipped up another one. I love…
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I’ve been working in resin again and this last round has me thrilled. So thrilled in fact that I’ve finally updated my Etsy store to share some of these beauties. Ever since I started working in resin I’ve been obsessed with the idea of preserving beautiful, natural elements to wear. In particular, the magic of…
The Blue Brick 