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THINGS are looking up
Maybe the best part of this snowstorm design is that the title came long after the visual design. And it was the kind of perfect you-gotta-love-it grin for me, lover of puns and multiple...
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Sorry, but the refrain of that happy little ditty is stuck in my brain-chimes at the moment, darling Billy. We are happy to be invited to the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado July 4-5-6....
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Random Thoughts — snow globe
Yeah, it’s like that. Random. Thoughts. People say, how do you come up with these ideas, and I have to make up an answer. Are they saying I’m a little “out there?” or is that a compliment? The truth...
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Reach …
The word that comes closest is yearning. It’s that feeling that there is something powerful, just out of reach, something you can almost touch. It’s desire, and belief, and suspension of belief too —...
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Armored Heart – sparkle snow globe
Toughen up. Harden your heart. It’s a scary world out there. We cover our hearts with bits of protection: the scars from long-ago loves, the uncertainty about our worthiness, worry over heartbreak yet...
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Tesla Mends a Broken Heart (snow globe)
One of my favorite scientists talked to me about Nikola Tesla a few years ago, saying that if he’d had the support and resources, he could have done amazing things. In fact, we have no idea what he...
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Magic Happens (Happy 100th!) Sparkle Snow Globe
As I pulled together the thoughts and images to post this art today, I realized that this was my 100th blog post. Back a few months ago, when I realized this “magic” number was approaching, I thought I...
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Below the Storm – Submarine Snow Globe
What if someone was diving who did not know that all kinds of storm was raging above? Swimming, as it were, Below the Storm. This piece is just that: the quiet calm place below the storm, where we...
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Grow Old With Me (sparkle water globe)
A wisp of a lyric, written on the wind, “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.“ - John Lennon and Robert Browning had the same idea. Along those simple lines, a snow globe holds a couple of...
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A Song Only She Could Hear
Experimenting. I wanted to express emotions, ideas and yearnings with the movement of clay — but this one took me by surprise. Although I was feeling a sweet, dreamy, thoughtful face when I made it,...
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You are my Sunflower
There once was a girl who loved sunflowers, and animals, and rainbows, and riding her wooden swing high above the trees. She loved to smile; she was kind and gentle, and thoughtful in her ways. The...
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Going Steampunk (you could say, “under construction”)
When asked, “Are you going Steampunk?” this globe says it all. Inside the miniature world of a swirling, glittering snow globe, tiny workmen on ladders remodel a plain fairy cottage into a steampunk...
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Identity Crisis, or even prairie dogs aspire to greatness
What’s that fancy word that means giving human qualities to animals? Oh, yeah: Anthropomorphism. Such as this little prairie dog with aspirations to be more. He seemed to have goals. We added horns...
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Shore Enough
As with so many pieces of art, this little tableau set out in its own determined direction, far removed from my original intent. I was working on sculpting tiny crows, and happened to flip one over so...
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Partly Cloudy, Chance of Ants
Atypical Ant-eater with friends. “We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards....
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I Climb the Walrus (Koo Koo Ka Choo)
Don’t ask me to explain it, if you haven’t heard of “Alternative Lyric Syndrome” … well, that’s because I just made it up. You hear a song you’ve heard before and Ba-Zing, you hear it differently this...
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Earthbound
Sometimes you hear a familiar word which strikes you in an unfamiliar way. Today’s word is “Earthbound.” We are bound to the earth by gravity, by necessity, by our history as humans. So far, somewhere...
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Renegade Airship
Arrrr, it’s the pirate’s life for me! When one is in the mood to be dastardly, not just any ship will do. The Renegade is just that: a lone wolf gone off to seek fortune and adventure where it might be...
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Dancing Disco Baby
Don’t raise your eyebrows at me in mock surprise! I was just as shocked as you were to see this “blast from the past” Disco Baby take shape. The pieces kept appearing mysteriously on the workbench....
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A Kaleidescope of Butterflies
Did you know that a group of butterflies may be properly called a kaleidescope? Such a pretty and fitting description of the flashing colors and fleeting glimpses. Just like in real life, with real...
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