Fundraiser

Snowdrops, the first signs of spring and New Beginnings. This glass candleholder engraved with snowdrops, is an item I donated to a fundraiser that will help to bring a young girl to Naramata from the Phillippines.

Marina is 11 years old and her father recently succumbed to terminal cancer. Little Marina is being adoped by her cousin Yanti and her husband Brent, local Naramations. What a wonderful New Beginning for this young lady. A fresh start and an exciting new life.

The fundraiser is being held at the Naramata pub on Friday, Feb. 25th.

Spirit of the Rose

Spirit of theRose

This is a very lightly drill engraved candleholder. The roses are all around the glass and one has a face below it. The rose is like a hat on her head. I used stone wheels on this piece to achieve the effect.

A very cool thing happened, I was picked as one of my community`s most fascinating people of 2010. Earlier in the year the Editor of mynaramata.com, Craig Henderson interviewed me and wrote a fantastic article about my glass art and the Guild of Glass Engravers. It was so good and true I`m very glad attention is coming back to it.

Here is a link to the article I would love to share with you; www.mynaramata.com/show1446a/Most Fascinating People 2010 Soon the New Year will be upon us. The Year of the Rabbit.

Yule Tidings and Merry Christmas!!

My Nephew had his first child this year. This is his first Christmas and I made this tree decoration in his honor. He is always laughing and so sweet. This decoration pretty much sums up his little personality. We all love him dearly! Happy Christmas little Amaethin!!!

Sabbatical

I am taking a Sabbatical from commissioned work for the time being. This winter I plan to take my skill level up a few notches and create some gallery quality work. Time to go inward and let my creative subconscious do its thing. I feel it stirring and yearning to create art that comes from within..........

A Little Visitor

This is Phoebe, she is our little hubcapbird that nests here and has her little family. She knows us and lets us come right up to her and take pictures and say hello. She is a little Dipper, who spends most of her time in the creek and in the shrubs around the creek. We have a number of birds who come around on a regular basis and live close with us. I love it when I can get a picture and keep a record of them all, get to know them and their habits, as they do ours, I`m sure!

We`ve had another wonderful visitor , from Stourbridge, England, Yes!, a fellow glass engraver and Guild member. Amanda Lawrence. www.gge.org.uk She was in Canada to personally deliver a commission she did for Mission Hill Winery in Kelowna. Amanda and her husband, stopped by for a short but very sweet visit to our home and My Studio. It was so inspiring and very thrilling to at last talk to another engraver in the flesh. It is fantastic to belong to the Guild of Glass Engravers, which inspires, educates and connects us together. "Light" is truly a magical medium to work with, and I hope to share with as many as I can in this part of the World.

Happy Halloween!

This is a wine bottle engraved with the copy of my client`s family label. They are from Sulzburg Germany, the family label is "Ghost from Sulzburg". They will then fill the bottle and keep it in their wine cellar as a special bottle. A cool design, the white image of the ghost coming over the castle. It turned out quite nice, the ghost was really sparkling. The bottle was brought here from Germany, Engraved and brought back again. I`m half German, on my mothers side and actually lived overseas for all my teenage growing years. It was a most rewarding experience to travel the world at such a young age.

It was kind of neat to engrave something that came from Germany to go back there again.

Finally getting back in the creative saddle, I will be engraving things with the winter season in mind and stir up a few ideas that have been waiting patiently for my wrist to heal up. Happy Halloween Everyone!