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" Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is "to fit together" and we all do this every day. Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day . " {Corita Kent}

I got a phone call this morning from the wife of one of my husbands work mates.. "Do you want to see what a Bedouin flea market is like?' she asked.... oh yes ma'am I do. The Bedouins set up their tents and sell their wares every Thursday on the outskirts of Beer Sheva. I was surprised first at the relative civility..I assumed there would be more bedlam. I was wrong. With the exception of a few exuberant young men yelling something as they stood beside their wares..[we could only imagine what they were saying...maybe the best price of a highlighted item or 'check this out' or ..'get your rice bowls here!' who knows...my knowledge of the Hebrew language has not extended beyond a few niceties, like thank you [todah] and peace be unto you [shalom]..oh, and yamina [go right] and shmola [go left]. I haven't found a good reason to use those last two yet.]..most sellers were not pushing their merchandise aggressively at all. I was also surprised that these ar

One of my all time favorite techniques when working with glass in the flame is copper foil on white glass. It's the copper that produces that lovely robins egg, Mediterranean sea blue.. It's a simple recipe: Begin with a rod of moretti white You will need a small amount of Thompsons white enamel (powdered glass) ..experiment! different colors with the copper produce something new every time. Some will give you lovely char black which you may or may not want so experiment with the glass and the heat. Small bits of torn copper foil..not too much..[but here again..experiment.] The beads above were created with very small bits of copper foil..[not an entire wrap] white enamels as well as brilliant blue enamels gently melted in at the finish. Prepare a simple bead in the flame [you will lose your well formed bead so don't worry overly much about the shape to begin with] and allow it to set up a bit..roll into enamels and then into your copper bits, and heat throughl

Logo..insignia..just a stamp that says 'Sweetwater Designs ' in image only Although they say that it makes good business sense to stay with one image, I've been playing with several different drawings lately. Isn't creativity about play and changing things up?? How can we be expected to stick to only one image?! lol.. Of course, I love the green magpie , since it was hand drawn by my grand-daughter ..he stands proudly on all cards that accompany my work. But online..well, that's a different story. I have the small insignia on this blog..I have a profile photo on my facebook as well as my twitter account,... and I have lots of time on my hands lately while I await the arrival of my work tools to Israel.. .ohmy . soon, I hope. anyway..this is my new insignia for the blog, and we'll see what else.. ..at least for the moment. What do you think? © Copyright 2011 Deborah Lambson

Mom and her great grand-daughter, MacKenzie 3.2010 My mother celebrates her 81st! birthday today! I trust she's okay with me telling her age. :-) Its funny isn't it? There is a time in a woman's life when she doesn't want her age broadcast..maybe in your mid thirties through to the late 40's? But then something happens, and like the 13 year old proudly walking into puberty, women become verbal about the number once again. .. and Mom certainly should be. She's always~ as long as I've been aware~ taken care of her skin..I don't ever remember my mom laying out in the sun. On the beach or working in the garden she wore a hat... She would never go to bed without cleaning her skin and moisturizing it..it's a nightly and daily ritual for her. Her skin shows the care she's given it over the years. She still walks almost daily,weather permitting. She watches her weight. She's always been conscious of what she eats and chooses to like horrid thi

Sharing with you all today this very sweet site I enjoy browsing every so often.. Ornamentea ... I should forewarn you though, its very fun to shop ! They have some fabulous tutorials too..this one for a chain fringe necklace , for example. Love it. and it's easy.

So we have finally moved into an apartment and unpacked our suitcases here in Be'er Sheva Israel...and although we are missing some things from home, we are settling in. Much to our surprise, it does rain and the days can be cool in the Negev desert..I brought only my flip flops with me and have my boots and all other closed shoes coming in 3 months time ~when it will be 100 plus. There is so much that's new... the smells, the sounds, the music, the television, the many muslim and orthodox jews in the dress of their beliefs, the seemingly impatient drivers and the incessant honking (why?) the pink dust of the desert sand always on the horizon, the quick animated hebrew tongue...all of it is foreign and I have a longing for it to become familiar quickly..I don't much like feeling like a stranger out of my element. but I am and we are and I know it will be some time before I am feeling 'at home' Our apartment is high on a hill on the outskirts of the city. These buil