Rabbit Light Redux

                                                       LIGHTS!


Stamped steel leaves -sourced online from King Architectural Metals
 

Rabbit Light


Oh my.......2 posts within the week.... Will wonders never cease. This is today's obsession....an old idea revisited. I came up with the above light fixture by attaching steel stampings to wire nursery baskets. The shadows they cast are amazing! This is the first one I fabricated 3 or 4 years ago.
 Today I revisited a large shade started last winter. This one incorporates a used metal tree root basket that's bent  and rusted in a really cool way. I'll post when it's finished.

.....Need to find a better solution for the top and chain. 
  

                                           NEW WORK!!!

                                                                                                                                     

 

Custom Stamped Bronze Disk
 

Bronze Bar Bracelet with Cubic Zirconia and Opalescent Faceted Czech Beads

 

Tiny Resin Terrarium Ring With Birch Bark Abode

 

Tiny Resin Terrarium Treehouse Ring

 

Stamped quotation is from Gandhi -'Where there is love there is life' True no?

 

Little Chick Locket
 

New Terrarium Kit

The Kit. I've since added a couple more tools.

 

Recycled Wine Bottle Terrarium Kit Assembled.




 

Hollow Glass Terrarium Pendants With Custom Message. (You can access the terrarium through a little hole in the back)

 



Portland Flower Show 2015

FLOWER POWER



Deadheading before show...'Slow down plants. You're flowering too fast!'

Has it REALLY been so long since I posted?.....goodness. I've been keeping busy... My husband and my mother and I installed a display garden and vendor booth at the Portland (Maine) Flower Show this past weekend. I started the plants for the show display from seed about this time last year so this project has been a while in the making. 

It was terrific to reconnect with my landscaping peeps and talk to some really fabulous new people. All your kind comments were devoured and stored away for a rainy day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We won four awards and were over the moon with delight. It's nice to have some success.....

This is what it looked like.

Vendor booth

The display.



Vendor both with recast gnome.





 

Stonework by Mr.G 






 

Canterbury Bells





 

Wine bottle terrarium. A new creation coming soon to the Etsy shop....



Harpoon Brewery used our stump table for a photo shoot! We almost used a bottle of beer instead of the wine.



 

My hang tags...Tried to have everything branded.


 

Foxgrape Fritillaria!!

After the show.... Flowers everywhere in the house. New poly on the hoop house today and out they go.

Wow....a lot of work, but very satisfying.... Next year?

More New Work

Terrarium Cube Ring



This ring is fun! (and a little experimental) You can access the terrarium thru a tiny hole in the back.

More New Work

 

I've gone a little modern and minimal with this piece. I like it....

 

 

 

New Work

New work for my Etsy store...

This one has been rolling around my bench in tiny pieces for a long time. I always struggle with questions of quality and  direction. Is it good?  Is it thoughtful? Is it headed in a new direction? Really..... too much thinking can cripple a maker of things. Sometimes you just have to finish. It's always a journey never a destination. 

A 5 point nautical star for Good Luck.
 



I added a layer of glass over the resin because sometimes resin seems to lack integrity as a material. It has a tacky heritage to overcome!

Terrarium House Redux

 

 

Every spring I make some terrariums for a benefit table to raise money for homeless kitties. This is how the 2014 group shaped up. Sorry for the blurry quality of some of these photos. I snapped a few quick stills at the last minute before (late!) delivery. (Time management is my evil nemesis) I'll have some of these tiny dwellings for sale in my Etsy shop soon.  These are all hand built using rubber press molds and Sculpy. I'm experimenting with white resin and reusable silicon molds.