fire and glass

How sweet of Miss Moonbindery to send me this all too cool Arte Y Pico award ..in case you don't know who that is, she's a bookbinder artisan who constructs beautiful one of a kind hand bound books in her studio in Kamloops , BC... go and take a look at her lovely work. I admire all things hand crafted, don't you? Now I need to pass this goddess of creativity award along to 5 deserving blogs, But first.. The rules for this award are: 1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributing to the blogger community, no matter what language. 2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone. 3) Each award-winner, has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself. 4) Award-winners and the one who has given the prize should to show the link to the " Arte y pico "blog , so eve

Latest set of handmade glass beads up for auction on EBay. Captivating caramels and silver blues created with the delectable glass rods from Double Helix and the German made Lauscha glasses.

so to speak. :) Whew!... we are moved into our new place and have been for a few days now. That was a lot! of work. I'm pretty sure there's at least one more move in our future and I plan on hunting down some pros to do it for us..that would just about be worth any dollar amount, don't you think!? But I do have my work room set up ! woohoo ! We're just waiting on some part to arrive in order to finish off the ventilation system, and there is quite a bit more paraphernalia to figure out where to put. (this place is somewhat smaller than our last home) ..but my glass is organized and my torch is ready to fire up. I'm good to go. In fact, I was itching to check out new room vibes very early this morning and have a set cooking in the kiln as we speak. I'm so happy to be melting glass again and I ♥ Hope all is well with you!