Happy Anniversary to Alex and Jeremy!

Happy Anniversary to Alex and Jeremy. One year together and many more to come! I wish you all the best and cheers to a wonderful celebration today!

The Guild of Glass Engraver`s annual exhibition in Cambridge this year. You can go to the Guild site www.gge.org.uk and check it out on line. Very inspirational! I hope to enter for next year. Time ran away on me this year as it does!

Celtic Knots - Continued...

I`m happy to say the Guild site is in order again. All the knots undone and happily I am snuggled again into the member profiles. A few more details of the doors pre- installation. Its wedding season! Just finished a wedding decanter heading for a wedding in Calgary, Alberta.

Celtic Knots

This is a detail of the wine cellar doors I keep talking about. This was taken in my studio while in progress. It is very lightly engraved as I was working on tempered glass and could not go very deep. This kind of engraving really relies on proper lighting to see it as it should be seen. It can almost be invisible if the lighting is not right. The doors have been installed and the lighting is going in also before we take more photos in situ. More details to follow.

The Guild of Glass Engraver`s website is having a temper tantrum at the moment so a lot of us engravers have had our profiles wiped out off of it due to a glitch when everyone was trying to pay their dues at the same time on line June 1st. I know they are working on getting it back together again. In the meantime, my website www.marlenemoloneyglass.com is up and running again. And soon we will be back up on the Guild site as well. It is nice to be on a few sites so that when a glitch happens on one, there is still another to check out! This blog is an awesome tool to keep things updated and my clients informed of what is happening in my studio. I currently have three orders to fill for some regular clients who come to me for their gift needs. I am so grateful and always honored.

New Beginnings

This is a watercolor painting I did of my little chicken Kansas. She is sitting beside a forget me not. Do you see hidden in the painting another little chicken in prayer? I sure miss her this time of year, garden season, she loved the garden and we gardened together all the time. Sometimes I forget shes not there so I think her energy still is.

My Nephew`s son Amaethin was just born on June 1st! What a blessed event!! New beginnings are so wonderful and hopeful! So much joy to come!

I was going to attend the Naramata Market this year to sell my wonderful herbal healing salve and promote and show my Glass Engraving. However, as I said before, sometimes plans don`t work out. I`m temporarily without a vehicle and undecided what to get next. In the meantime, walking is so fantastic for my health and I don`t need to venture too far from my studio now. I have several new orders to fill. Wine cellar doors are getting proper lighting before I can post them installed. I will post some photos I have of them in progress.

Healing

We come into the world alone and naked and thats how we leave it. We have to be good with ourselves as well as the way we treat others. Thats who we have to answer to in the end. Inner-peace comes when you are feeling good about yourself and the things you do. Intention is a most powerful tool.

I love to make healing lamps, that are soothing to look at and thought provoking as well. I like to lay in the tub and watch my lamp, the quartz crystals glow with the changing colors the lamp from below lights up the engraving and the crystals. These kind of gifts or personal pieces are very heartfelt and meaningful. The crystals give the piece extra healing qualities. The energy of the people giving the gift or having one created for themselves becomes very much a part of it.

I am currently in between websites, mine has been taken down for the time being, in the meantime please contact me at tommoloney@shaw.ca

Soon I will post photos of the wine cellar door project, recently installed. I can`t wait to see them!

Celebration of Life

Life comes at you when you are busy making other plans. All part of our wild and crazy human experience. My Dad passed away on May 6, 2010, rather suddenly, however with many health problems of late. We are having his celebration of life tomorrow and he will be well remembered. He wanted all of us to not have anything formal or sappy, but full of joy and love and storytelling . He was quite a character. This event will bring his family all together in one place, which is the good part. The good, the bad and the ugly come at us everyday. We can only accept what comes and solve the solvable and let the powers that be, solve the rest. Going with the flow is such a happy way to live. My Nephew Daedrin and his beautiful lady JC, are about to have a baby! What joy, our father will be at that birth in spirit! He will be my Dad`s only great grandson. Daedrin and I designed this piece of the Raven, Rose and Celtic cross a while back and it never got finished. It jumped out at me in the Studio when I was having a moment about my Dad. All of a sudden I saw this piece in a different light. Everything has its time to shine. We love you and will miss you dear old Dad .......

JC and Daedrin also designed and built my website www.marlenemoloneyglass.com

Moving Forward

Sometimes life happens and changes your plans for awhile. My Dad transitioned from and Apartment, to hospital, to respite care then into bachelor assisted living apartment in a beautiful new place in town. He is looking better than I`ve seen him in a long time now and just getting settled. It was of course a very stress-full and emotional time for all involved. He came back from the brink and getting stronger all the time. He gets 3 meals a day, gets lots of exercise, is never alone if he dosen`t want to be and in a very positive environment. What more could you ask for, and he still has a sense of independence.

Now, back to making a living engraving and life in general. The above piece is called" Raitt Castle" It is intaglio engraved which is deeply carved into the back and viewed from the front. It is an old family castle in Scotland and drawn from photos of the client`s visit there. They commissioned this for their Grand daughter.

Wine cellar doors in progress, paperweight designs in progress, and small pieces being planned to take to the Naramata Market with my fabulous homemade herbal healing salve I have been making for almost 20 years. The market starts the first wednesday in June. I plan to go at least twice a month, hopefully more if all goes well. I never get too far ahead of myself, I like to take life as it happens in the now and go with the flow with goals in place.