Harvest Time

Harvest time in our beautiful valley. This piece is a small portion of a 5' panel. Custom loft balconey glass, Two 5` panels, one side vineyard the other apple orchard.The house overlooks Okanagan Lake on a bluff. Not much engraving went on this summer. I took a wild fall, slipping on wet stairs in my slippy rubber boots. My engraving hand took all the weight of the fall. Silly thing to happen, devastating to my engraving. We don`t realize how precious something is until we loose it for awhile or altogether for that matter.

A fellow engraver from England, also a member of the Guild of Glass Engravers, is in my area. She is here to hand deliver a commission to a local winery. I really hope to get to meet her!

More news to follow!

I`ll be shortly back in the studio again, good as new I hope!

Local Scenes

We are now enjoying our beautiful summer Okanagan, wonderful vistas, the lake, beauty everywhere. So blessed to live here. I never take it for granted. Cherries are so delicious now, dark and sweet and sooooo good! The rainbow children are here to pick fruit and enjoy the culture and adventure of it all the tourists are happy enjoying themselves. The lazy days of summer. Just had a few small orders in the studio lately. Its Siesta time in the valley now. Time to enjoy the summer!!

Summer

Well, we are still waiting for summer anyway, our usual "Sunny" Okanagan has been rather dark lately. We hear it will be coming next week! Certainly can`t complain too much as we live in a beautiful paradise. When I look around this crazy world, I think how am I so blessed to live here and do what I love? Gratitude fills my heart everyday. Growing season is upon us and things grow a little every day. Its such a delight to run to the gardens in the mornings and see how they`ve miraculously grown overnight! We are embracing our gardens and growing more and more food every year. There is nothing like eating a meal that we grew ourselves that is still filled with life energy and nutrients. Ahhh, the good life! Anything you give attention to will flourish! We create our surroundings and all that happens to us. Attitude is so important to the outcome of everything. We can choose to keep the shiney up. Act as if you are excellent, even if you are a little off and soon you will be excellent. We really have that power. Its ok to feel bad sometimes, feel your feelings and let them run through you, then you can quickly change your mind, like a fish darting in the water! Try it!

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.