Big Lazy – Just Plain Scared
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After spending seven straight hours in the studio last Tuesday night, I was able to finish the art nouveau inspired cloisonné pendant! I am pretty excited that 1. nothing horrible went wrong in those seven hours (trying to stay calm and not rushing helped) [...]
Deastro – Biophelia
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Hello from yet another gorgeous almost summer-like day in November. First off, this week’s song comes to you from Deastro, one of my absolute favorite musicians of 2009. I was hooked ever since I heard this song. This past Thursday I had the pleasure of seeing him [...]
The Shins – Sea Legs
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Well friendlings, it’s been two years and I’m still here . . . plugging away at a project a week, or something like that. Thank you to those who have dropped by and commented or silently perused through my projects. Thanks also to those who [...]
Song of the Week: Benoît Pioulard – Loupe
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I just realized that my two year anniversary is coming up in two weeks and well, that means I should be at around project 103 by now. Oops. Where did those missing 13 go? Spooky. Since I have two weeks to catch [...]
Last year my friend David exhibited a bunch of his photos at Artomatic and after walking through only three of the nine floors, I decided I had to sign up this year (and make sure to see all of the art on all nine floors).
I knew it would be a lot of work, but the [...]
In the sweatshop . . .
I have been in desperate need of some new skirts and finally got around to sewing one for the spring. Over the years I have sewn at least ten (variations) of these for myself and even more for my sister and to sell (when my sister and I had our [...]
It hit me this morning that I only have three more enamels classes left for the Winter session. No worries though . . . our class was postponed so many times that the Spring session starts only two weeks after my last class . . . phew! How I long for a large studio in [...]
Last Monday I was all excited to start my enamels class and wanted to make sure I didn’t waste a minute of potential kiln time, so I did some prep work. I got out my dwindling supply of ferric chloride and put in a few copper pieces to etch. I used asphaltum (black) on some [...]
I am pretty excited about this week’s creative project. I recently started taking another Enameling on Metal class at the Torpedo Factory and I had all these grand plans for my projects this semester. I wanted to make the most of it and hopefully come out with enough pieces to sell on Etsy. If the [...]
Although I am not particularly religious, Easter is a big deal to me and my family. We have a load of Lithuanian traditions that I love. Two of my favorites are how we decorate our Easter eggs (that’s Project #22) and making Grybai, Lithuanian mushroom cookies. When I say mushroom cookies I mean they look [...]