New Venture

In addition to filling my free time with painting and photography, I've discovered a new creation for photos of my work. I'm having a lot of fun coming up with images to turn into wearable art: glass tile pendants! I'm loving how they look and learning more with each one I create. I will soon be offering them for sale on my etsy site so keep watching! Custom pendants will be available as well by contacting me and letting me know what you'd like to see, or submitting your own photo for reproducing for a pendant. Here are the very first ones I made:

The zebra stripes pendants are created from some graphic design work:

The bee pendant is created from some of my own photography:

The whimsical dragonfly and butterfly pendants are created from a series of paintings I did a few years ago for a customer who ordered the paintings for a new baby's nursery. I just love how they look as pendants!



The bluebonnet pendants is made from some of my wildflower photography:

I will be offering sports themed pendants as well, and of course Mom pendants too!

Love the vintage look of a black and white photo set in antique brass!

The Cozumel pendant is created from one of my recent paintings:

I have many more ideas and more supplies are on their way. As soon as my chains and findings arrive I'll be completing necklaces and getting new products uploaded to the etsy site.

Harbor

I was so excited when I made my first sale on my etsy site. I was inspired to paint Harbor when some ladies and I were working on decorations for my daughter's debutante ball. One of the decorations was a large mural type backdrop for the entrance to the ball. We painted a scene of a harbor from an old postcard. See the painted backdrop here. As we painted that scene I kept thinking I'd like to paint it again. Soon after I painted the scene on one of my antique windows. I listed it on etsy and it sold rather quickly. "Harbor" now resides in California and it remains one of my favorites.

Sunrise at Highland Lakes

A few years ago I spent a week with the preteens from church as their counselor at preteen camp. While there, I would waken earlier than my girls and have my coffee and quiet time. One morning for quiet time I took my coffee and my camera and walked down behind the tabernacle to see the sunrise. It was so beautiful and amazing to watch the streaks in the sky behind the crosses. I took some photos...which of course later I turned into paintings. Here's the progress of the most recently painted window containing the scene: