Mark Your Calendars: First Friday, November

Newsflash! The wonderful & talented Audrey Jacobs and I got together last week and started a collaborative project combining Audrey's delicious photography skills and my very own glasswork. We got some fabulous models in on it too, and for the culmination of this project there will be a SHOW!

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200 East Ave. Rochester, NY

Friday, November 2nd

2012

Mark your calendars! There will be glass, photo books, prints, various other handmade items, and also musicians!

Check out more of Audrey's beautiful & compelling work at anotheroneperceiving.blogspot.com and get excitedddd!

Blinky

In the works, I've got some Pac Man ghostie earrings coming along. The red dude is known as Blinky, and I'll have to make Inky, Pinky and Clyde as well! (They are cyan, pink, and orange respectively if you are unfamiliar with Pac Man.) Once I finish making Blinky into earrings, you betcha they'll be going up on Etsy!

I am testing out a new jump page for myself at about.me. Check it out and tell me what you think:  here.

Also, I just ordered some fancy new business cards with QR codes on them that will take you to my Etsy shop, and they cannot come soon enough!

Turtles And 'Staches

Some of my recent creations include:

You can check 'em out at Fine Specimen.

Birthday Glassblowing

Well, it has certainly been a while since my last update. I have been swamped with life. Yesterday was my birthday, and I had the pleasure of voyaging down to Corning, NY to use their hot shop. I booked a five-hour blow slot, and here are a few photos of what went down:

I didn't get any photos of the piece I was most excited about, which was a broad, shallow vessel with a swirly ribbed-pattern that will become a birdbath once I weld up a base for it. I seemed to be on a roman bottle form kick, which is the shape you see above with the rounded base and the long narrow neck, so I ended up with a number of vases as well. I try to go into my blow slots with some amount of intention, but I so seldom get to blow glass from a furnace that sometimes I just end up having fun making disparate items. Next time it might be prudent to do some production work for the holiday season though.

I'm feeling like making some pretty blown ornaments on my torch. I think that's next on the docket, after snail shell items, which I still need to hash out and make a good number of. Soon I will have enough free time to really focus, and I am so looking forward to it.

Mo' Pendants