As Above, So Below

Finished a new Reiki Wall piece today.  As I look at it, it makes me think of the night time sky with the constellations of stars....the path of the milky way....and yet the stars are star fish and the the clouds are Nautilus shells so it is as if the skies are a reflection of the deep deep sea.....as above, so below.

Under the tempered glass are images of butterflies, rising with the path of star shine. Antique french letters and sheet music complete the piece, with a hidden Reiki Blessing symbol.

Until I decide to send it to the Chalk Farm Gallery,  I have hung it in my studio, above my Buddha head .

My thoughts now turn to our departure next week and the return to the mainland.  It's always a little hard to let go....

The Thrill of a door knob....

My move is complete....all is placed and put away. New lighting has been ordered and the kiln might be up and ready by tomorrow. Got a new (used) chair with wheels so I can zip around the concrete floors from one station to another.....got some plates and silverware and apples, cheese and oranges and wine....this weekend I'm off to garage sales, on the hunt for an outdoor furniture set and in my mind I am in the south of France, eating bread and cheese, grapes and drinking wine, at the end of a creative day. My vision. :)

Today I embedded antique glass door knobs into an old door, which up until using my trusted apoxie sculpt, just dangled in the hole. Now, it is a work of art, welcoming you to enter.

Life is good!

A day of moving my studio

It is amazing how much stuff I had crammed into my little closet of a studio space!
3 car loads...of course one of the cars was my little VW....but still it was fun to pull out stuff that I had stuffed into corners.


bags and bags of stuff that to me is called "treasures"!

I'll use this little studio space for the sculpting of polymer clay figures.....and writing out bills.....

It's very little, but very sweet with funky old windows looking out to the forest....and my leopard chair.

The new studio is now all set up....except to add some lighting and kiln hook up.

There's so much space and it's so.....neat. Oh my.....

but the little ones got right into creating....













I'll be expecting you........ :)

Heaven is a new studio space!

We had built a barn thinking that our daughter and her family might live in it, but that was not to be.....so I have claimed the space and today I began to move my stuff in. I had a space about the size of a closet in our cottage here in Northern California, so I am feeling ecstatic to have all of this room to create in! I just need to get some good lighting. The kiln gets put in tomorrow.
I think I might offer classes........anyone interested ? :)

Sharing the studio.....

I always love sharing my studio with friends. I am convinced that given the space to create, the supplies to use, and permission to express ourselves, magic happens and true art shows up.

Heaven is being back in my studio.......

I have a couple of projects that bring me back into my studio....

I'm putting together an online class in creating how to make a Jeweled Headdress.  That should be fun.  I love head pieces and they're fun to make.  Also, Fire Mountain Beads has asked me to create a piece that they can use in one of their ads.  So I have piles of their wonderful beads to use to put together a piece.  

I'm thinking of creating a goddess/wave piece....not sure how it will come out.  Right now it's just an impression....a blurry vision of blues and beads.... cream color pearls as foam....and a figure worked into the crest of the wave.