I have finished the State Flowers and have the last one on the website. At the moment, I am not on the torch but am thinking about tackling the 50 State Flower leaves. I make generic leaves both using a leaf press and not. They are fast, easy and fun to do. Making duplicate leaves for each flower will be challenging. I looked at the State birds and put it on the shelf because it is beyond my abilities at the moment.
My challenges are to increase my abilities with boro or glass in general. The studio is on haitis this week following Lewis' foot surgery. I hope this will be our last trip to the VA for anything except regular visits.
In the meantime, I am working diligently on Ancester to get all of my research online. I am working with 3 "cousins" who have their own trees and all 3 are from different surnames. I have a lot of old family photos so they will long survive me online. I still have not gone through my grandmother's chest which has a lot of heirlooms and other things.
So, enjoy our slow journey into fall and stay cool in this brutal weather. Barb
Barb in Las Vegas
Trays of Flowers
Alabama Camellia Flower
Hotshop Salmon Shark
Glass bowl at The Murano Hotel
Apple Blossom
Pipes and Flowers
Pipes and Flowers
PIPES AND FLOWERS
I have been making boro glass flowers for Lewis who is working with tubing to make small handheld pipes. Working with boro to make flowers allows me to experiment with more detailed flowers but it is challenging and I need to learn how to slow down. Working with the Lynx on boro also requires me to experiment with flame size. I'll take pictures of the pipes with dragons and flowers later today.
California Poppies
FLOWERS
The canvas on the left is a 4x4 inch
canvas with red California Poppies painted on the canvas
and glass poppies over them.
I haven't framed it yet.
The frame to the right is a 5x7 inch
wood frame of a photo postcard that I bought in Paris
