same pic of some of my glasswork items. I'm going to use these as garden décor, planted randomly throughout.

just for kicks I thought I'd upload a video of my teacher, Paul Swartwood, doing some of his pieces, making it look just too easy. ;)

here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIbOXJWd5wM

hola my dear readers.  today I am attempting to teach myself to roll cigarettes.  I have heretofore been wildly unsuccessful and only manage to shred the paper and fling loose tobacco all over myself and the floor.  I will attempt to upload a video of this for entertainment.  I will also include an instructional video that I will research on youtube.  Here goes.....

okay, found a great one!  this guy's too fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXOzaMUueOY

please check him out. 

photos:

so for anyone checking this blog, I would be so appreciative of comments.  thank youuuu ;)

 work in progress:

this is done with colored hot glue, a definite new treasured find

 

 

4/9/13 so finally, with the help of my brilliant daughter, figured out the glitch with uploading the pictures.  I'm expanding my repertoire of work that I'm showing, and will start including my glass work, photography and paintings as well as collage.  The glass work above was done at Glen Echo in the Glassworks studio with my teacher Paul Swartwood.

4/4/13

for anyone checking, there is some kind of problem uploading pictures.  I've tried multiple times with no success.  Hopefully, I'll get this resolved soon.  Thanks for stopping by, and have a look at what has been posted so far if you'd like.

4/3/13

oh my.  I have been absent, and not sticking to my schedule.  As you can see I changed the format, making it a collage a week.  This has to do mainly with not having enough room to do a piece a day, but also I felt like a piece a week would be more manageable. 

I've started a new therapy, too, which took some getting used to.  But, I'm back on track, and here's the piece for this week.

The style of it comes from the childhood style of drawing squiggly lines and filling in the shapes with color.  The outlines were made with clear glue sticks in the glue gun, and the colored filler is colored glue sticks.  The colored glue sticks for the glue gun is my latest treasured find.  LOVE love love!

and here it is, (so far. work in progress):

okay, glitch.  cannot seem to upload photo. will try again tomorrow.  :(