fire and glass

Do you entrecard ? Then you may be interested in receiving 1000 free credits ... Simply comment..tell me what you're doing or what your day has been like or what you're planning your day to be like when you read this where ever you are in your part of the world and on April 1st I will randomly choose a name and bestow some of my accumulated credits on you...♥ ( too lazy to fix that run on sentence ~ ha!) I'll start ~ my day is sunny..yes! I have a hair appointment and I noticed we're out of milk this morning as I fixed my bowl of cereal ~so grocery shopping is on the agenda. The afternoon is clear for putting together jewelry and dinner is out tonight so I plan on having a lovely day ~what about u?

I love this new glass I bought from Bedrock Supply while I was in Edmonton on the weekend..it's an odd lot. Juicy brilliant color ~Poppy, I think..anyway, truly lovely stuff.

I try very hard to control my ADHD-ish tendencies but I'm a little crazy in the studio as far as picking colors up on a whim. This week I'm going to go against my nature ( hmm..could that really be a good thing?? ) and be diligent with my sketch book as well as researching out some color trends before I begin any work. To that end, the Pantone Fashion Color Report for Spring 2009 has a site that is inspiring, maybe influencing? and just plain interesting to check in on every so often. The Spring season palette is dripping with brilliant fuchsia, sunny yellow and a mouth watering lime that they're calling 'Dark Citron', great name~ and while those shades are not normally my comfort zone (to work in that is..Love to gaze at them) there is also a range of neutrals that calm my soul. and o.. No yellow for me thank you very much. A little of that goes a long way in my book. The upcoming fall/winter season color prediction is as expected, much more subdued .. " ...

I guess I think maybe we do..or at least maybe they have some worth. To recharge and see with fresh eyes can really only be done after somewhat of a break. Either a planned break or simply a lack of ideas break, either way it's a rest from creative flow. I had a lovely break this past weekend... no pressure now! (I did buy myself some new glass though...) An apology to the lovely Sand and Sea Designs ~she makes beautiful things...like this. Don't you just feel like breaking out the tanning lotion? She was sweet enough to bestow this award upon me ~a few days ago. :-o as undeserving as I am of any sort of blog award right now. Thank you for that Wendy!! ♥