Love the Rain

Just took a fresh load of glass out of the kiln - I finally did some larger pendant pieces. I rarely use brown glass but...why?! It looks great with the reaction that happens between the silver leaf and white glass (the brown swirl around the clouds in photo). This piece has a nice amount of reaction - and I love using silver leaf! All I need to do now is find a heavy chain to put it on -- my dinky snake chains simply won't do.

Swift Magic

It's September! Go watch the Swifts funnel into the chimney at the Chapman Elementary School downtown at NW Pettigrove and 25th-ish.

The New Rummaging Schedule

One of the very worst things about being at the Portland Saturday (&Sunday) Market, is that I miss all of the rummage sales! Imagine all of the wonderful, cheap-as-dirt housewares and clothes that are only available on random weekends through the year, which I am missing out on! It drives me a very particular kind of crazy. My one saving grace, to which I anticipate with immense excitement all year long, is the Catlin Gabel Rummage Sale which is held every November. It is gigantic in a way that you can only comprehend by attending. So big, in fact, that it fills the Portland Expo Center. Believe it.

And it is a mere 2 months away.

Escaping the Burn (of both theft and heat)

Considering all of the drama and events that went on in Seattle, I find myself with a very short version of the entire story.

I drove to Seattle for a wholesale show, had all of my jewelry and supplies stolen out of my car, and then the next day I got it all back. The End.

Some good things came out of it; some bad things came out of it.

This is what my jewelry looks like if you are standing on a picnic table and wearing really cute 'avocado shoes'.

Fortunately, I returned to a good weekend at the Portland Saturday Market, went out for some sushi with friends, and started a bikram yoga class. It is amazingly hot in that yoga room, and my very calm instructor confessed that lately he has been taking "window hits" from the one open window in the room, so that he can get some cool fresh air. I wonder what kind of person he is outside of class.

Until next time, I'll be in spot #201 under the Burnside Bridge (weekends only). Oh! And I'll be attending the Belmont Street Fair a week from Saturday. Later, kiddos.