Happy Valentine's Day and the Challenge

Happy Valentine's Day!

I wish you and your soul mate a very precious day of love!!!!

To my children, I love you both!

To all of our family and friends,
we love you, too!




The Challenge

As you know, Deb Batten, aka FireBird Flame Work and I, challenge ourselves each month to extend our creative souls and try a new skill or work to enhance those we already have.

Last month, the challenge was Bead %$#%%^****(())) Kumihimo. Certainly not a good one for me. However, we continue, although a bit late this month, to pursue a further development of our creative souls. This month, and this was Deb's idea, especially since it's my fault we are running late, we are challenging ourselves to work on copper, but wait, it's not just that. The name of our challenge this month is:
Color Me Copper.

So, what will be doing? Deb and I will be challenging ourselves to work with different ways to patina copper. I'm sure looking forward to this one! We will do the reveal at the end of the month, so stay tuned. You can also check out Deb's blog for her side of the story!

At last, THE CHALLENGE!

Let me first begin by apologizing. I lost (I guess I hit the quick delete button, AGAIN, or something) two of the photos that were sent to me. Not only that, I don't know who sent them. To you wonderful unknown artists, I'm sorry. I screwed up.

Now, to the challenge. About 3 weeks ago, I posted 2 pictures of my lava lamp. I love my lava lamp! Here's one of the photos. I'm only going to post one because both photos were the same with just a slight difference in color.
I then challenged anyone who chose to do so, to send me a photo of a work of art that they created using this photo as an inspiration. I assumed that the photos would be of glass works, but any thing could be sent. I did receive one drawing. I lost it. I'm sorry.

Here are two of the 4 responses I received. Again, I'm sorry to the unknown artists.













This photo is from Diane. She's ddbeader on Wet Canvas. I looked at the links from her signature there. Wow! I'm impressed! In addition to managing a web site, she has two other blogs, Diane's Watercolors and Diane's Water Color blog! They are amazing places to visit. But wait, she doesn't stop there, she also has an etsy store and an artfire store. I got tired just from visiting all these places! I don't know how she does it! Be sure to visit her blogs and stores. Wow! You won't be disappointed. Amazing!































These two images were submitted by Louise Ingram, another WC friend. She's also known as
Fire Seed glass. Louise is well known for her monkeys. Just remember, you want to monkey around, Louise is your gal for that! Check out her great stuff!

Louise is another artist who wears me out! She also has an artfire store and an etsy store. You've got to go and see her monkeys! They are just great! I am the proud owner of one of her two faced monkeys, and it's a fabulous addition to my collection! wow!

Thank you to everyone who sent me an entry! Next challenge, I'll make sure I'm much more organized. Have fun and enjoy these stores and websites!

Shameless Self Promotion and bits of information

Bits of Information:

Today is the last day to enter the OWOH (One World One Heart) drawing. Tonight, I will draw the name of the winner. With any luck, one of my children will be able to choose the winner, but that remains to be seen. Tomorrow, I will post the winner's name. I will try to contact the winner. If I do not get a response from the winner in 2 days, I will draw another name. How does that sound? I hope to get the heart to it's new home very quickly.

I am going to get my act together and post the lava lamp entries--hopefully tomorrow, too, but I'm not sure about that yet. I just hope so!

All right, enough of that. Now for the shameless self promotion!
Here are some items that are in my 3 different online stores.

This bracelet is in my Etsy store. I call it: Natural Neutral Organic Handmade Lampwork Bead Bracelet
Take a peek! It's in the jewelry section of my store.


The name of this button is Cupcake Anyone? It's in my 1000Markets store.

This brightly colored heart is in my Artfire store. I call this heart: COLORS AND COLORS HANDMADE LAMPWORK HEART PENDANT.

All right, it's over. Check back tomorrow to see the Challenge entries. Remember, I will post the winner in the OWOH promotion on the 12th.