July 12, 2009
just off my workboard…..by using bold warm colors, and various glass globs, heavy gauge copper wire hammered, bent in various places, and utilizing them for decorative and structural purposes, this is a favorite of mine. I also left the top edge of the glass in its original state from when the glass was first poured and formed for a bit of interest.
June 27, 2009
It was beautiful and sunny today out at the Market in Elkhart Lake. After we finished setting up this morning, I went around and bought some great strawberries, 2 qts. that WILL NOT last thru the weekend for sure. M-M-M-M! I bought some potatoes, cauliflower, & some multi-colored lettuce, so fresh! Everything looked so good, the farmers really know how to do it right! 
There were loads of people milling about, great to see so many enjoying coming to the market. Whether you are coming out to buy some fresh veggies, or shop at our canopies where you will also find anything from wonderfully crafted jewelry, handmade soaps, handmade cards/invitations, to flowers either to plant in your garden, or fresh cut bouquets, to my canopy where you’ll find my variety of items handmade by ‘me’ (of course ;) ) in stained glass. The day was beautiful and sunny, with a light ocassional breeze, which was welcomed as the day heated up.
The market would not be the great success like it is without all the great support we get from all of you out there attending it.
Thank You!
June 25, 2009
Been working on a new piece, that will be colorful and bold in oranges, and warm ambers. It is all copper foiled and ready for solderwork to be done. Can’t wait to get this piece together, and hold it up to the light. That part is always something to look forward to. Last night I made some copper wire and hammered pieces for the hooks, that will be attached as functional yet decorative, and ornate. There will be a picture to follow…..before and after picture. So stay tuned! 
June 19, 2009
Back to the Artisan/Farmers Market tomorrow morning. Sounds like the weather should be quite warm, and a bit breezy. We’re having some rain and storms tonight they should be cleared out of the area by morning.
June 15, 2009
It was raining on the drive out to Elkhart Lake in the morning, but that didn’t ‘dampen’….lol, our spirits and determination. I checked the radar online before we left home, so even if the meterologist can be, and usually is wrong……(which seems to be a common complaint whoever you talk to, and from wherever they are from!) we knew the batch of rain that was hanging around would pass, and the rest of the day looked to be getting better as time went on.
We unloaded all the stuff, tables, canopy, and all the milk crates that I pack my items in. Setting up the canopy was a bit of a struggle. Guess we were just a bit rusty in ‘how-to’ set it up, since we hadn’t done this since last Fall. For anyone who has ever set-up one of those canopies you know what a struggle they can be if they decide to give you a hassle. ;) Ohhhhh yeah. Set-up went a bit slow, but we got it done in the end.
A few of the farmers were there with some produce, rhubarb, lettuce, spinach etc. Alot of familiar faces, and also some new faces this year. Just was nice to be back out at the market again, a new start to a new season.
Stop in my canopy and see my new items this year!
Until next Saturday…………….back to the market, have a great week everyone!
June 10, 2009
Well we didn’t go to the Artisan Market Saturday due to bad weather. It was a rainy day, in talking to other vendors they got wet and were packing up early. Let’s hope for better weather this coming Saturday, I am planning on attending the market this week, so hope to see you there!
I have my items packed and ready to go…….
June 6, 2009
‘Busy as a bee’ tonight getting things ready for the first Artisan Market at Elkhart Lake of the 2009 Season tomorrow, (Saturday June 6th).
I have been wrapping items in bubble wrap, and packing into the crates. We have the canopy, and tables ready to go, the table coverings are in the wash and almost finished, fold them in the morning so they aren’t all wrinkly, I have laid them over a couple chairs in the basement.
The really touchy part?…….the weather, which at the moment is not looking to promising for tomorrow. The rain forecast is changing, and not for the better. I have been checking and watching since about Wednesday, what Saturday is likely to be. I just checked again and the percentage is rising quite rapidly, we have gone from about 40% probability now up to 80%! I will be on the computer again in the morning to check the radar, and what the rain is doing, see how far to the west of us it is in the morning. Not a good kick-off for the first sale of the season,…… 
Wait and see……..that’s all we can do. Mother nature always has the upper hand, and she likes to remind us of that every now and then.
Fingers crossed for the best.
May 30, 2009
One week from today, the Artisan Market starts at Elkhart Lake. When the market finished in Fall last year it seemed like I had all this ‘time’ ahead to get loads of things made, and here we are ‘one week to go’. I have made quite a few new items, but I’ve always got new ideas brewing of things I want to do. Just to bad my full time job seems to iterfer with what I’d really love to be doing,….. I will have some unusual pendants this year, all will be ‘one of a kind’. I have been experimenting with some thick chunky glass, of various colors, shapes and sizes, then adding hammered copper wire, beads, and maybe some decorative soldering in the process. Nothing is planned when I am making pieces, so they are as much of a surprise to me as they are to my customers, only thing is I see them first! LOL Is this what they refer to as an “artist”????? Things just…….happen when creating a piece.
I was quite busy with customer orders before Christmas, and of course a few of the last minute things to do, someone usually will ask, “could you get this done before Christmas yet?” And as usual I have a hard time saying ’no’, and will burn the midnight oil in the workshop to try to fulfill everyones requests. So I guess that also took a great deal of time too, but I enjoy making the glass pieces, I really am pleased when someone is happy to have a piece of mine for their own. Knowing they now own a piece that will last for alot of years to come! Keeping part of an old traditional art as part of our current life, possibly handed down as history.
May 18, 2009
Both of these have a piece of iridized milky colored glass, along with a glass squiggle on the top, and a glass glob at the bottom. Everything is wrapped with copper foil, then soldered using ‘lead-free’ solder, something I use in all of the jewelry made from “Shards and Light” www.shardsandlight.com These are just a few of my new pieces for the 2009 Artisan Market, soon to be starting at Elkhart Lake. Less than a month to go before the market opens again.
June 6th is opening day See you there!
May 13, 2009
This is an old frame, that needed a bit of TLC. It is covered in leather, I added the copper pieces, and used some stained glass, ball chain, some beads, the heart in the middle is done with polymer clay, embossed and baked, all in this little mosaic.
I will have this at Elkhart Lake Artisan Market for sale this coming season.
