Park View Choral Department’s Craft/Vendor Fair Saturday November 12, 2011 10:00am – 2:00pm Park View High School Cafeteria 400 West Laurel Ave Sterling, Va. 20164

This event is in Sterling Va, 20164 – near Dulles Airport.

Just in [...]]]> Well.
That’s the news this week since I only just found out that I will in fact be one of the participating vendors at Sterling Fest 2011 Sat, Oct 8th. from 11 am – 5 pm. I will be there selling my pendants.

This event is in Sterling Va, 20164 – near Dulles Airport.

Just in case you don’t see links – here is the url: http://www.sterlingfoundation.org/SterlingFest.html

Oh My! Excitement and last minute prep work. A busy busy week for me – which is good.
Glad I have all my pendants re-carded and labeled. Now I just need to re-work the layout and get the sign-age done by Friday. Possibly get a few more pieces done by Wed so that I have time to price and catalog them too.

Thankfully I have a friend helping to keep me on track, and Craig will be helping me the day of the event. Then I just need to relax and sell pretty shiny things to people.

Here I again used multiple layers of fused clear, black and dichroic glass with mica powders.

This is “Soul Stone II” – another item from a commissioned series. It’s my personal favorite from the series – however the buyer chose another larger piece instead. This one was cold worked on the glass grinder in addition to [...]]]>

Here I again used multiple layers of fused clear, black and dichroic glass with mica powders.

This is “Soul Stone II” – another item from a commissioned series. It’s my personal favorite from the series – however the buyer chose another larger piece instead. This one was cold worked on the glass grinder in addition to having four individual kiln firings.

This is “Soul Stone III” – it was part of a series I did for a commission. Commission pieces are done as a series with the buyer choosing their final purchase.

A very tailored shape with an attractive mix of blue-green color on a white base. I was thinking of the sea when I made this one. To give this one the tailored look I wanted – I used my glass grinder to shape and smooth the sides into a longer leaner looking shape.

This is a dainty light blue swirled glass with mixed blue accents.

A small rounded fused glass pendant with a sprinkle of red (almost cranberry) and black frit on a white base.

As discussed earlier – I have recently taken a workshop involving Boro glass and torch work. It was not jewelry specific – but I learned a couple of things and I’ll be using the pieces I made in some form of jewelry. I’m still working out my plans. However here is one picture I’ve [...]]]> As discussed earlier – I have recently taken a workshop involving Boro glass and torch work. It was not jewelry specific – but I learned a couple of things and I’ll be using the pieces I made in some form of jewelry. I’m still working out my plans. However here is one picture I’ve taken of a couple of the “raw” pieces before they become finished products.

I’ll most likely be doing a wire wrap for each one. Though a couple may evolve into a complete necklace. Not sure yet – especially since I do seem to favor pendants over necklaces.

The one in the middle I was attempting a sea shell – since I have a series of sea side inspired jewelry I wanted to make. While the one on the left is a flutter heart for Valentines Day. I do have about 8 or 9 usable pieces…. but these were the best to photograph at this stage.