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.