Compassion For Enduring Carrots

This weekend I painted carrots and greens on our bunny hutch with 2 carrots in a loving embrace. Last year I pulled carrots out of the ground that were intertwined as if they were holding on to each other in a tender hug. When I find carrots like this I don’t put them in my basket with the other carrots that will eventually be eaten. I put carrots that are in an enduring embrace into the compost bin allowing them to grow old together.

Painting sunflowers on our goat house

There is something fun about spending the entire afternoon painting sunflowers on an old goat house. (I know Dale Chihuly has a boathouse but Montana glass artists have goat houses ~ Glass artist humor LOL.) Bill and I recently gave away our remaining 2 pigmy goats. This enables us to use the land for more garden space and possibly a flower cutting garden. And don’t feel too sorry of the goats ~ they went to a farm that breeds goats and had boyfriends already liked up. I hope to paint vegetables on our bunny’s hutch and maybe eggs and nests on our chicken house. What a great way to spend a sunny afternoon.

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I designed a new logo to kick off our 2009 Glass art season. Bill and I love dragons and being dueling pyromaniacs / glass artists ~ it was only appropriate to incorporate a dragon into our logo. In the design I used images of Bill’s marbles and my bottle stoppers along with our beads and pendants. This dragon was inspired by an Escher dragon I had as a black light poster in my room when I was a teenager. We hope to have T-shirts and canvas bags with this new design soon.

Our new logo was introduced Saturday, May 2, 2009 at the first day of our Missoula Artist Market. It was one of those days people dream of where the sky is incredibly blue and the air is filled with laughter from a diverse group of cheerful people.

The place was like a carnival and Bill and I were Carnies. Not the kind that shout step right up ~ we were more like the ones that stand behind the rides and pull the levers and let the fun begin. In our case the fun is looking into Vortex marbles with optical elusions making the viewer feel they may fall in and find Alice’s rabbit hole. Our Bottle stoppers can be held in the air like swards with glass that takes the viewer on a incredible journey turning and twisting to see the encased treasures buried like hidden treasures.

Some days we receive payment in 2 forms ~ currency and smiles :-) It is such a cool feeling to watch faces light up as people enjoy the eye candy we have created.