Takota Bear

Meet Takota, whose name means "Friend to Everyone". He is our Native American Dog, also known as a NAID. If you visit the home page of Night Eyes Farms. , you can see him as a puppy on the puppy mover monorail. Takota is riding second from the front. Native American Indian Dogs are a rare almost extinct breed of dog used by the Native Americans to pull a travois across thousands of miles of the North American continent. There are about 5 certified breeders of these dogs. Takota, true to his breed, is a problem solver. He is a watcher. Takota thinks ahead and plans. He is sometimes scary smart. Takota is also a big baby, who likes belly scratches and, best of all, being covered up in my blanket. Of course, I have to watch him with said blanket. He will shed it in an instant if he decides to. It is impossible to find a toy that he can not destroy. If any dog toy makers are up for the challenge...contact me!

in the light box

I think that bottles are too tight a fit for my light box. I think I needed to have a better backdrop. I know that I have put off photographing a bunch of slumped bottles because they are unruly. I tackled a few of them today. My camera (yikes!) almost fell to the ground. My table light was pulled to the floor by one of my four legged helpers. :)

However...I do like how the bottles look, especially when the light shines through them.

Sometimes..

I like to make earrings. I was organizing my bead stash over the winter and had just purchased these vintage Japanese glass beads from Epoch Bead's shop on Etsy. I loved them. I got this rush of inspiration to pair them with branch coral and the result was these earrings. I managed to post them on flickr, but never did get around to listing them in my etsy shop. I think it just might be that I like them so much that I want them for me. Have you ever made something that was just kind of meant to be yours?

Charmed

I decided to do this charm without a color background of resin to set it on. At first I was not sure if I made the right choice. But I keep finding myself touching the resin covered clover. It is just so clear, so glossy. It actually magnifies the clover a bit. I do not make many bracelets, just a handful each year. I hope you like this one. It feels nice on your wrist and you can even add other charms to it if you'd like. I will even send you some silver split jump rings to hang your favorite charms with the four leaf clover one. Just leave me a message in the notes to seller when purchasing from my shop. Have a great weekend!

Blue

I love to buy glass to fuse with, but I really like to recycle glass into usable art.

My dad stopped by yesterday with this garbage container filled with blue bottles! I have had a couple of blue bottles to work with in the past, but for me they are hard to come by. I plan to slump some for platters and spoon rests. Others I plan to cut into rings and fuse them into donut shaped pendants and rings for wind chimes. Some will become frit (smash, smash!!) and will be fused into shapes in molds. When using frit from bottles, you need to keep the glass from each bottle separate to ensure compatibility. Tomorrow I am going to have a bottle washing party in my back yard and everyone's invited. :)